Broken ipad power button? Or is this some sort of software problem? Pressing the power button on my iPad mini 4 doesn't turn the screen on and off... but a long press on the button will still bring up the &quot;slide to power off&quot; prompt (and if I power off the iPad, pressing the power button will turn it back on ).
If nothing worked at all I would figure it's a hardware problem and look into getting it repaired, but the fact the the &quot;power off&quot; feature works even though the power button doesn't seem to sleep/wake the screen has me puzzled.
What's going on here?
That's not the way it works on my iPad Pro.  Pressing the Power button turns the iPad display off and on. Holding it down for a few seconds brings up the shutdown slider. If you can't turn the display off and on what do you do when screen turns off? Press the Home button? Really only thing you're missing, it sounds, is your ability to turn the screen off when you desire. Or did I miss something? You can turn the screen on with the Home button.
It sounds as if something may be wrong with your button.