SOLVED Administrator cannot access iPad from iMac

[Jaygon]

Hi all,
When logged in to my iMac (14,1 running Catalina 10.15.7)) as administrator, my iPad 4 (connected directly by Apple lightning cable) appears under locations then quickly disappears, reappears, disappears repeatedly while the iPad simply beeps constantly. At same time I cannot run Spotify from iMac except when playing downloaded items. I can run spotify ok when logged in as user rather than administrator so I must have again done something wrongly or not done something correctly
Any suggestions ???
Thanks

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

Sounds like it may be a bad cable or port on the iPad.

• Have you tried another cable?
• Does the cable seat fully in the port on the iPad?
• Have you inspected/cleaned the port on the iPad - possibly some lint/foreign material preventing a good connection?

C

 

[Jaygon]

Hello,

Sounds like it may be a bad cable or port on the iPad.

• Have you tried another cable?
• Does the cable seat fully in the port on the iPad?
• Have you inspected/cleaned the port on the iPad - possibly some lint/foreign material preventing a good connection?

C

Hi Cory,
Thanks for those suggestions. The answer to all is NO - I will give them a try tonight and we shall see what happens.
Cheers,

 

[Jaygon]

Sorry Cory for not responding earlier - I have been in Hospital having surgery. New cable works fine - simple as that

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

No worries...hope things went well for you.

Glad it was a simple fix.

Here's to a speedy recovery.

C

 

[Jaygon]

Hello,

No worries...hope things went well for you.

Glad it was a simple fix.

Here's to a speedy recovery.

C

Thanks Cory. just a pacemaker and all going well - great in fact. Cheers