For those not in the know, the M4 iPad Pro is the most expensive iPad the company sells, so the damage a faulty update can cause is pretty costly. This might make you think that Jobs' Mob would check the software better before it left the flying saucer, but apparently not.

It is so bad that Apple has swiftly acknowledged the issue and temporarily removed the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models as we work to resolve the issue.

Of course, Apple could not entirely admit that it was a cock up and insisted that it only impacted “a small number of devices.”  We guess it means only those M4 iPad Pros that were switched on.

M4 iPad Pro users have been using social media to moan that their expensive toys have become unusable after trying to install the latest version of iPadOS.

“At some point during the update, my iPad turned off and would no longer turn on,” a user named tcorey23 posted on Reddit.

 “I just took it to the Apple Store, which confirmed it’s completely bricked, but they said they had to send it out to their engineers before they could give me a replacement even though I have Apple care.”

A Reddit user, Lisegot, wrote that the Apple Store they took their bricked M4 iPad Pro to did not have a replacement in stock, which meant they would need to wait five to seven days for a working iPad.

“No one was particularly apologetic, and they even insinuated that there was no way for them to know whether the update caused this,” they wrote.

Apple staff are not the only ones trying to cover up the cock-up. The Tame Apple Press has claimed that such a fault was rare as iPads can typically be put into recovery mode if a software update goes bad.

Jobs’ Mob is not saying when it will fix the faulty software.