I am about to start my fourth attempt at transferring my old iPad to my new iPad. It has failed twice in the data transfer stage and once before we even got there. This is the stuff we used to be able to rely on with Apple. I don’t particularly want to set this thing up from scratch but I also don’t want to waste another hour. Sigh.

@film_girl Family member recently had their iPad corrupted. The backups? Also corrupt. So if you restored it it’d go into a boot loop.

No solution but to start from scratch. They had been carying the install since iPad 1. All their icons in their favorite spots, preferences, etc.

Devastated.

I didn’t even know it was possible beforehand.

@foobarsoft Oh no! I didn’t know this was possible either but I’ve always been freaked out by whole back box nature of iOS backups. Thr fact that I can’t make an easy backup of my iCloud backup and I can’t test it is deeply, deeply frustrating.