Comments on: How to restore an iCloud backup of your old iPad to your new iPad

By: Stacy Bridges

Stacy Bridges — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:18:00 +0000

I recently left my job and the ipad they provided. I set up my account for that ipad as a personal account per advice from an admin assistant at work. Now I have my own ipad and can’t link to my account and the purchased apps I had.

By: Santia

Santia — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:43:00 +0000

Had two ipads. One I bought, the other given by my company, which I did not keep sync via icloud nor itunes. As i did not use both decided to sell mine and before I made a back up via icloud on few items/files I wanted to keep (basically pics and few other files). Now I would like to restore and merge the icloud back up of the ipad sold into the company ipad. From your description, this does not seem feasible unless I reset the company’s ipad and do a restore – which I would like to avoid as would need to involve the it people of my office. I wonder if there is any trick that would allow me to do this. Many thanks in advance. Santiago

By: mARTink

mARTink — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:31:00 +0000

Note to self – read older questions – would have answered all my questions. Updated to IOS6 (like old Ipad) then perform restore. Works a treat.

By: mARTink

mARTink — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:45:00 +0000

as the new Ipad has now updated to IOS6, like the old one already was, I’m wondering if this is why…?

By: mARTink

mARTink — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:39:00 +0000

I backed up my Ipad yesterday before impending Tech Support at the apple store. Successful. I then took my Ipad in, which got exchanged / replaced for a new one. On set up I tried to access this previous backup, but it was not seen at all. Help please as the only backup on Itunes was back in June!!!?

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:00:00 +0000

I recently upgraded my iPad1 to an iPad4. Restoration with iCloud backup worked flawlessly – all of my apps, music, videos, & pictures are there and where they should be. The problem now is that my iPad is still restoring from iCloud backup after 2 days, but I can’t see it actually doing anything, and I don’t know what more needs to be done. I can’t upgrade the iOS until restore and then backup is complete. There is a button in settings that would allow me to stop the restoration, but I’m almost scared to use it. I have rebooted the iPad thinking that maybe something got stuck and needed to be restarted, but as is, I can’t tell what’s “wrong,” so to speak.

By: Robert-Dee Hartzler

Robert-Dee Hartzler — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:49:00 +0000

Figured it out. Had to install ios6 on the new iPad before I could sync so it would match with the old one

By: Robert-Dee Hartzler

Robert-Dee Hartzler — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:07:00 +0000

I’ve backed up my old iPad on iCloud but when I try to set up my new iPad using restore it says I don’t have any iCloud to restore. What am I doing wrong?

By: SteveE

SteveE — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:39:00 +0000

In reply to Lynne Schlumpf. did you get a reply to this?

By: Peter Kupfer

Peter Kupfer — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:14:00 +0000

Thanks for the post.