It's not that they are being dropped from any great height or onto hard surfaces but it would appear that the iPad screens are susceptible to any heavy or sharp blow.
The iPad that features in this video, was dropped from a couch onto a carpeted floor:
During the course of repairing iPads, we have noticed that a smashed iPad screen can splinter into very fine shards of glass so be very careful when handling an iPad with a smashed screen.
The good news is that most components in an iPad are repairable or can be replaced so if your beloved iPad is broken, then we can repair the vast majority of iPad problems across all generations of iPads
