My iPad Pro 3rd Gen was wiped at airport security
At Philly airport and contents gone and full reset. Is this a common experience?
iPad Pro, 12
At Philly airport and contents gone and full reset. Is this a common experience?
iPad Pro, 12
No, there aren’t any known device button combinations that can invoke a full factory reset of the iPad. If, as you describe, the device went “in” to baggage screening healthy - but exited baggage screening in the state you describe without having been physically examined, it is would be reasonable working hypothesis that the “x-ray” machine may have caused an unepected reset. You were perhaps just unlucky on this occassion.
Personally, I always ensure (and generally recommend) that electronic devices are reasonably well charged but fully powered-off - prior to entering baggage screening - with full expectation that I may be asked to power-on the device during a subsequent physical search.
Having devices powered-off is always good practice in reducing the possibility of corruption from induced electrical currents or disturbance by high magnetic or other high energy fields that may be present whilst within screening equipment.
Modern CT-based screening equipment is generally regarded as “film-safe” for [most] common photographic emulsions - and for most electronics. It should be noted, however, that the majority of consumer electronics are not specifically hardened against the effects of high magnetic or RF fields, radiation or energetic particles.
Thanks everyone for sharing your personal experiences and mostly nonevents. I think that it is safe to say that it has nothing to do with
I’ve got it, thanks.
That said, I am still looking for insights as to what would wipe a device?
I will be trying to get to an apple store, there are just none near me
Thanks again.
What was done to it that caused the erasure? An airport x-ray has never hurt my iPads in the past.
Exactly. Something else had to happen with the OPs situation. What happened may remain a mystery.
I still don't understand how or why this happened. We just traveled a week ago and went through airport security going up and coming back, with two iPad Pro 11 and nothing was wiped off our devices.
You sure no one else (but you) have physical access to the device? No one but you touch it? That is a bizarre problem.
I too have flown in the past month with 2 ipads and an ipod touch and none of them suffered any ill effects (neither did my android smart phone. All devices were on when they were scanned.
Actually, my iPad Pro 11 was scanned twice at one security checkpoint. No loss of data or device wipe at all.
My iPad Pro 3rd Gen was wiped at airport security