Restoring Your iPad
Each time that you connect your iPad to your computer through its USB cable, the iTunes program on your computer makes a backup of your entire iPad. That way if your iPad malfunctions or fails completely, you can restore your backed up data to a new iPad and start working right away as if nothing had happened.
Restoring from a Backup
Restoring your iPad is an easy fix for many software troubles—give restoring a try if your iPad starts to malfunction or fails to sync properly and restarting doesn’t work. Even if you lose your iPad, you can get a new one, restore your backups to this new iPad, and essentially clone your old iPad onto your new iPad.
To restore a backup from iTunes to your iPad, follow these steps:
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