sounds like my problem too, and I also have a cracked screen (which has worked fine for some time). It acts like there's a person or malware driving the iPad, but I think that's an illusion. No one wants to mess with my silly pad, I don't think any successful malware would either. More likely, it's caused by mechanical failure. Mine's an iPad mini, pretty old, been repaired before, I guess it's time. Like the previous person, I've always resented Apple for making their product so vulnerable.
Hi I just had the same thing happen on my iPad Air 2. I did the reset, it has been working so far ( only been a few hours). You will lose your screen lock photo, wallpaper photo and more importantly saved passwords but that’s about it. Try the hard restart first then reset.
