Post #694296

2026-03-09 20:53 UTC

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.

Replies (9)

@stephenrobles@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 20:56

@film_girl iCloud Restore?

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@rcarmo@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 20:57

@film_girl I have been postponing upgrading my phone _exactly_ because I know it will take forever. And I already got the new one to sync, etc. - but the pain of finishing the process daunts me.

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@robnee@fosstodon.org 2026-03-09 21:18

@film_girl I think I remember @caseyliss complaining about device to device somewhat recently

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@TheEjj@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 21:18

@film_girl I feel we greatly underestimate how much switching to yearly release cycles for software put the engineers at Apple in a losing battle with complexity vs fixes.

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@foobarsoft@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 21:32

@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.

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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-03-09 22:03

@film_girl this never would have happened with Music Match Jukebox. (But in all seriousness I have given up on direct transfer and only recommend iCloud/iTunes restore.)

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@Alan@mastodon.online 2026-03-09 23:02

@film_girl I bought an M5 MacBook Pro a few months ago. Transferring from my M1 MacBook Pro took 5+ attempts. I only got it to work by taking a bootable Carbon Copy Cloner backup and transferring from that. It was infuriating. I feel your pain.

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@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 02:27

@film_girl Does anyone following along know- can the personal data from your iPhone automatically be transferred to Mac or iPad? I’ve been doing direct transfer for my last 2 iPhones at least, but it seems to have worked fine mostly. I’m not sure i could access ANY of my accounts without doing so. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve started with a clean slate with an Apple device.

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@dfgomes@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 05:18

@film_girl Just use icloud backup.

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