I Pad Help Please

[uncle al]

My I pad opening screen has become unresponsive and I can't swipe to enter my pass numbers
My toddler grandson plonked a bit about on the screen so may have altered something before I got to it
Incidentally there is a camera icon in the bottom right hand corner that I don't think was there previously
Help!

[Fitzer]

Reboot it by holding the home and power buttons until the Apple logo appears, the camera icon probably would have been there as it is simply the quick access to the camera without having to do the unlock.

[uncle al]

Will try that, thanks

[Gromit]

If someone tries to access your iPad using the wrong PIN, then the system goes into lock down after 4 wrong attempts. I imagine that is what has happened. Do as Fitzer says.

[uncle al]

Tried the reboot and it seems to have worked thanks
Another query if I may???
Over the weekend my e-mails grew to nearly 10,000, all of which I have already read.
I googled and followed the mass delete advice, but this just seems to have made 9,795 unread (on the icon), although I am only now receiving new e-mails.
I am a talktalk customer, so I wonder if they've "restocked" all in boxes so all old e-mails are now visible.
Nothing with the I pad seems simple.

[Fitzer]

No idea re. the emails I'm afraid, never happened to me, such things are normally a problem at the server end so could well be TalkTalk. Gromit's point re. too many wrong PIN entries, there is another setting in the passcode settings which says 'delete all data after 10 wrong PIN entries', if your grandson is going to be playing you might want to make sure that isn't switched on :-)