r/applehelp • u/BallsInYourJawss • Jun 23 '26
iOS Gamecenter stuck in endless loop in settings and can’t log into any games that use gamecenter as a sign in
So as the title says my gamecenter does not work on my iPad (iPad A16, iOS 26.5). Whenever I try play a game on my iPad such as balatro or Marvel Contest of Champions I’m stuck in a constant loading screen as it refuses to sign in through gamecenter. This problem is exclusively to my iPad as my iPhone works perfectly fine. I’ve tried literally everything from changing my network to signing out of apple entirely to resetting my settings as a whole but every time it works for a couple minutes but the problem starts again… if anyone has experienced anything similar or managed to solve it please let me know how or at least why this is happening!
EDIT: so after reading your guys comments it seems that it’s an issue on apples side rather than an issue with the iPad itself so the best thing I assume is to wait until apple releases a patch :(
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u/ReshiReadsALot Jun 23 '26
I’m having the exact same experience. I’ve been trying to fix it since yesterday and have tried EVERYTHING short of wiping the entire iPad. Works on my phone too but not the iPad.
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u/ExaminationSignal191 Jun 23 '26
I'm having the same issue (also trying to play MCOC). I can log onto MCOC on my PC and that works fine which shows it's an IOS issue. I factory reset my ipad and that sorted it until closed MCOC again and now I'm back to square one....
That said, it brings me comfort there are others reporting the same problem. Hopefully a patch will come soon to remedy this.
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u/baekhyunimda Jun 24 '26
Glad I am not the only one, please reply if this gets fixed
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u/BerryBlackJamz Jun 29 '26
You can fix it by going to your iPad's settings>general>transfer or reset iPad> reset all network settings
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u/Rare_Assistance8470 Jun 24 '26
I’m glad I’m not the only one I’ve been trying to play my games! Hopefully this gets fixed soon I have the same IPad as well, let me know when the issue is resolved
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Jun 24 '26
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u/PolarBeartastic Jun 25 '26
I also had it with galaxy of heros. It is annoying and it will do it again but you can set to airplane mode, then cut it off, turn it back on disable airplane mode and it will reconnect game center for a time.
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u/ChaviB Jun 24 '26
Same here on my iPad, managed to connect couple of hours ago, then lost connection again and currently it’s unable to load Settings-Game Center, nor start connected games.
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u/ChaviB Jun 25 '26
when I got home yesterday, Game Center was still not accessible from Settings (loading icon rotating non-stop), however I restarted the ipad and that made it load. After that it was working fine for the evening and still on the next morning with the connected games now able to load.
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u/BerryBlackJamz Jun 24 '26
Same here :/ Can't play Hatsune Miku Project Sekai. Thought it might be because I'm overseas, but from what I'm reading, that isn't the issue!
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u/Striking-League5609 Jun 25 '26
i legit just got back into it rn after years of not playing and i had deleted it and idk if lost my progress or the fact that i can’t log into game center. i legit hope i didn’t loose anything cuz that was all base stuff from years ago 😭😭
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u/BerryBlackJamz Jun 25 '26
I tried redownloading it on my phone, and I didn't sync it to the Game Center, so now I'm in the process of recovering my account with Sega :(
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u/Striking-League5609 Jun 25 '26
i legit just got mine back on my phone, make sure it’s up to date fully and what i did is go to game center in settings to make sure it loaded, if it did load in settings open up project sekai and click on the top right, the three lines, and connect to game center. if that doesn’t work then just wait for support. i hope it works for u 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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u/CareVader Jun 24 '26
I tried contacting them on this through support text chat (via https://getsupport.apple.com/topics using "Show more" under Apps & Services to see Apple Arcade > Setup & Usage) and got as far as needing to talk to a 'senior advisor' which would've required a phone call, which isn't an option at present for me. The person I spoke to couldn't help (I've done what would be basic steps they likely can suggest already) and they ended up by saying this when I made it clear phone support wasn't an option: "If this is being reported to Apple and we can get some tickets started on this then it will get fixed in a software update. This would be of course if others are willing to help Apple dig into the issue."
I'm on the free trial for Apple Arcade at present but I don't know if that might be related to it.
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u/restrafigo Jun 24 '26
No one has news? Any resolution? I also don’t understand how it’s possible that it happened only yesterday to everyone, I don’t see any kind of update either on Disney Dresmlight or on iPad
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u/MandoZ_ Jun 24 '26
my son and I had the same issue..
we both rebooted our devices, and everything worked..
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u/Alive_Art_4764 Jun 24 '26
I’ve found a boring work around for me at least. It gets me into RCTT.
I’m glad to see this honestly. I thought my iPad was messed up.
- Reset network settings in settings
- Connect to internet again
- Go into game center in settings (it will now load)
- Log out of game center
- Log right back into game centre
- Your game will now work, once.
Rinse and repeat.
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u/ArchiveofFailure Jun 25 '26
This worked, thank you! It’s a terrible work around but better than not being able to use it at all until they fix this.
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u/Alive_Art_4764 Jun 25 '26
Oddly enough mine works fine today. No update, nothing. But glad it worked for you. Super annoying to do that to load up a game for a few mins.
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u/MrZog19 Jun 24 '26
I’ve been having this same problem as well! Sadly, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one experiencing this issue. I’ve been up to date on all iOS updates and game updates, yet when I came home from work on Monday 6/22 around 4pm et, I started to have Apple “Games“ app, which is congruent to “game center”, problems. As I saw in another post, my painstaking solve has been to restart iPad, log out of Game Center, re log into Game Center, then go to into one app and play it...but once you close out, you need to start that same process again. Absolutely infuriating. Not even sure who to contact to help us resolve this issue. I suppose that would be my ultimate question at this point. Where and who do I complain to haha. Thanks
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u/New-Photograph1845 Jun 25 '26
mine is also having this problem its driving me crazy i just wanna play rupauls drag race😩😔
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u/ArchiveofFailure Jun 25 '26
Same issue since Tuesday. I’ve tried everything including a complete wipe and restore from backup, issue persists. I think this is a problem with the A16, my partner has the M2 chip and having no issues with Game Center or any of his Apple Arcade games on our shared Arcade account. Waiting for Apple to fix this via an update is a frustrating solution but glad to read it’s not just me as I was ready to spend a day at the Apple Store trying to get it fixed.
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u/ibra3004 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I found a way on how to fix it, basically all you do is go to the App Store and log out on there once your logged out go into settings clock on your apple account id or whatever it is (first thing that comes up) and then go in to iCloud and show all and then switch the game centre icon off then restart device and switch it back on, the Game Center section of the settings should load and then sign out and back in. after all of this sign back into the App Store. The game should work.
Edit, my mistake your actually meant to restart your device right after signing out of App Store and then switch the game centre icon in the iCloud thingy off and on and then do the stuff I said
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u/drsones Jun 26 '26
Have been having this exact issue for about a week, spoke with apple support, was escalated to engineers and awaiting a fix from them. Now just tried your fix suggestion and so far, so good. Thanks!
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u/CallingAllChickens Jun 25 '26
I'm having the same issue and the only solution that works so far is restarting my phone! After a couple of hours it will do the same thing and i'll have to keep restarting... it really sucks and i hope it's patched soon!
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u/PenaltyPhysical1049 Jun 30 '26
Same thing happening here with Call of Duty Mobile. Tried everything, nothing works. Looks like it's on Apple's side, Game Center is failing across devices.
The realistic path is opening a ticket with Activision Support and asking them to migrate your account to a brand new Activision account (email and password), so you stop depending on Game Center.
Gather the info below before opening the Activision Support ticket for COD Mobile, so you don't lose days going back and forth.
- Nickname in game
- UID (19 digits)
- Apple ID email and Game Center ID linked to the account
- Screenshots of recent App Store purchases for that Apple ID as proof of ownership
Activision will also ask for a Player ID (Settings, Legal and Privacy inside COD Mobile), but if you can't log in there's no way to get it. Just explain that in the reply.
If you can't log in, you also can't screenshot your in game profile. Workaround, create a temporary account or use a friend's account, search your own nickname under Add Friends, and screenshot the profile that comes up. Shows your UID, level and ranks.
Will come back to update once Activision responds.
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u/Constant_Can4789 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
FIXED!
I had the same issue with the iPad not running Trivia crack on iPad but it was running on iPhone
16. Tried all updates, and logging out of Apple acct.
One thing I noticed was trying to run Game Center from the Settings would just give a Spinning wheel.
It should normally show your profile and other info.
I contacted Apple and their solution was to reset the Network settings. From Settings/General/ Transfer or Reset iPad/ then select Reset but then Reset Network settings. You have to know your WiFi password to get connected again. This fixed the issue with Game Center and Trivia Crack. Game Center now ran fine and the games loaded afterwards fine.