“There are two ways to erase an iPad. There’s the right way and the wrong way,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.
“Both ways will wipe your iPad securely, but the wrong way will leave you tearing your hair out when you get your new iPad,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “Doing it [the wrong] way will overwrite your iTunes backup file for your iPad, and that means when you do buy your new iPad, you won’t be able to restore it to the current configuration and have to set it up manually. And trust me, that’s both a real pain and an enormous time-suck.”
Read more in the full article here.
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You are still so sweet and innocent. 😛
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Comments on the original article state that the info is wrong. Can someone here enlighten me, please?
I believe he is wrong. iCloud recognizes all your purchases and its not such a pain to restore all things by downloading again to your new device. In fact, the new device needs your Apple ID anyways.
This is inaccurate. If you backup your iPad, then wipe it moments later, you can then restore from the last backup with your new iPad.
Thanks for the clarifications. I just found out yesterday that I’ll have to return my iPad 2 to my school when I retire at the end of this month. I wanted to make sure I could wipe the data before I turn it in and not cause myself problems when I get the iPad 3 immediately afterward.