This sounds more like a hardware problem or something related to software that's installed on your particular iPad. I'd start with a reinstall and restore, then if that doesn't solve it, take the iPad in for service.My 11" M1 iPad started shutting down on it's own pretty much daily since upgrading from 15.x to 16.3.1 while my wife's 2nd gen 11" on 16.3.1 is fine. So ***** irritating and typical buggy release by Apple again. Ugh.
I would normally think so too but it started right when I upgraded to 16.3.1 from 15.x (of course that doesn't definitively mean a software issue). Maybe there was a problem during upgrade, but I blame the software given poor quality of the updates going back several years.This sounds more like a hardware problem or something related to software that's installed on your particular iPad. I'd start with a reinstall and restore, then if that doesn't solve it, take the iPad in for service.
But you have empirical evidence of another device working perfectly fine. It seems to me that your blame may be misplaced here.I would normally think so too but it started right when I upgraded to 16.3.1 from 15.x (of course that doesn't definitively mean a software issue). Maybe there was a problem during upgrade, but I blame the software given poor quality of the updates going back several years.
Sure it could be, but it's a different model so not really scientific. Of course I may be just blaming Apple based on previous poor experiences with the previous updates.But you have empirical evidence of another device working perfectly fine. It seems to me that your blame may be misplaced here.