iPad: “Attempting data recovery”

iPhone J.D. legal blog:

The computer asked me if I wanted to update the iPad to the latest version of iOS, and I said yes without thinking much about it. Everything seemed to go fine, but then at the very end I saw an error message that I had never seen before telling me to press the iPad’s home button to attempt data recovery. What the heck? Nervous that I had somehow lost data on my daughter’s iPad, I pressed the button as instructed and crossed my fingers.

I then waited a while while the iPad told me that it was attempting data recovery.

I’ve seen this message, and I’ve heard from a number of other folks who’ve encountered the same issue while trying to apply an iOS update. Here’s a link showing what this looks like.

Seems to me it’d be easy enough to add in some kind of clarifying text to this error message. As is, it is a bit terrifying.



4 thoughts on “iPad: “Attempting data recovery””

  1. Sounds like the data has been lost and the device is trying to recover it from the cloud. Being concerned isn’t unreasonable.

    (The error message would have been more useful than the status message, though, if you’ve got it.)

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  3. I read the article, but I know how the process works. Yes, the cloud is involved. That’s how this case is handled: apps (usually not user data, though it has the capacity to do that too) are purged for the upgrade, then recovered from the cloud.

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