My daughter's ipad 2 was not been used for like a year. We charged it but neither she nor my wife cannot remember the password. We tried several possibilities and now the ipad is disabled. ITunes were not able to restore or update. Keep getting error code "0xE8000065". How to fix this??
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The fix?
Don’t even bother with this old iPad, any longer!
To get past this issue means, inevitably, having to reset the device to a new device state now, and for these 8 and 9-year old iPads, this act of the complete device reset means a certain level of operational “death”to these very old iPads, for good, after the fact.
You will no longer be able to retrieve many of the older third party apps that are installed on these older iPads any longer from the Apple iOS App Store for good now!
If you never, ever backed up this device ever to both a new and older version of the iTunes application for Mac and Windows PC computer, where you could save the data and an older iTunes versions where you could still save both the actual apps AND app data, as well, any iOS device restoring processes, that end up happening to these old iPads, will render these old iOS devices nearly useless, now!
These older iPad models are too old, now, too underpowered and completely incompatible with any of the current and future versions of iOS/iPadOS.
Sorry, but it is what it is, today, in the year 2020!
Apple supports new iPad models for up to 5-6 years with third party app developers supporting these iPads for another, additional 2-3 years after!
So, that is a total of between 7-9 years of iPad/iOS support!
ALL older iPad models, like the iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini have, finally, reached this support limit!
These old iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini models are, virtually, 8 and 9-years old, now.
The amount of older, compatible, available apps for these old iPad models has dwindled significantly since the beginning of 2020!
Getting older versions of apps for these old iPad models, initially from Apple’s iOS App Store is getting very difficult and very problematic and this issue is getting, painfully, much worse, now, in 2020!
As of the beginning of 2019, many, MANY third party app developers are all more quickly and completely permanently dropping older app support for all old 7, 8 and 9-year iPads that are running 2-3 year old and earlier iOS versions ( iOS 10 and earlier ).
Third party app developers are removing all of their older, legacy versions of their apps from Apple's App Store servers, now.
Third party app developers no longer want to support these 8 and 9-year old or older iOS devices, any longer!
Older versions of apps are, soon, going to be gone for good, now!
These old iPads are now reaching their complete end of life and support cycles.
So finding older versions apps for older iPads, while still possible, currently, will be a very tough challenge, now, in 2020.
Old iPads that can no longer be upgraded/updated will have NO MORE APPS AVAILABLE for initial download, at all, soon, from the Apple iOS App Store, for such old iOS devices in the very near future.
Older versions of apps for these older iPads will be completely gone, at some point, in the very foreseeable future.
Old 8 and 9-year old iPads will be pretty much obsolete by the end of the 2020 year!
Again, it is what it is, today, in the year 2020!
You will never get any more older versions of popular apps for these old iPads, any longer.
The apps that these old iPads already have on them, and still work, will be the apps these iPads will be stuck with!
Basically, these old iPad models are just good for FaceTime and somewhat limited Web browsing via some other, more up to date third party Web browsers and NOT using that nearly 4-year old iOS Safari Web browser.
Notwithstanding the age of your iPad, if the device passcode has been forgotten and you wish to attempt to recover some use of the device, you’ll need to follow this process:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211078
You’ll need access to either a PC (with iTunes installed) or a Mac (with iTunes or Finder - as appropriate for the installed version of MacOS).
You’ll also need your AppleID and associated password. If these have also been forgotten, they can be recovered here:
To recover your credentials, you’ll need access to one of the following:
Unless you AppleID account has not been fully/correctly configured, or has been seriously neglected, recovery of the AppleID and password should not be difficult.
More information about recovery of your AppleID:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201354
More information about recovery of your AppleID password:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201487
So, this is REALLY NOW the time to seriously consider a new or discounted, refurbished iPad from Apple or other Apple authorised resellers.
A lot has happened with iPad and iOS in 7-9 years and in the past 2 to 3-1/2 years since iOS 9 and 10.
You need to purchase a new iPad from Apple or a discounted, refurbished iPad from Apple’s Refurbished & Clearance section of Apple’s Website or a new or refurbished iPad from an Apple authorised, third party retail or online reseller OR other trusted sources for new or used Apple products.
As an example and compared to that nearly 8-years old iPad 4th generation model,
The cheapest, baseline 2019, 10.2 inch screen 7th gen Apple iPads have a 1/2 inch larger retina screen, it is overall lighter, in weight, newer, more powerful and approx. 2-1/2 times faster 2.3 Ghz, A10 Fusion processor ( CPU ), AT LEAST 3-4 times the internal RAM, with the 2019, 7th gen iPad having 3 GBs of internal RAM, iPadOS 13 support, with much better and improved multitasking features and much fuller support for externally connected data drives, Apple Pencil and Apple Smart keyboard cover support and have better audio speakers and better/improved built-in cameras.
In addition, if you search online and look at various, reputable online Apple device resellers, you can usually find this 2019, 7th gen iPad at various discounts, depending on storage size and whether it is a WiFi ONLY model or a WiFi/cellular data model.
This is the harsh reality for these 8 and 9-year old, OR OLDER, iOS devices, now!
Time for a new, refurbished or much “newer” ( read used ) iPad.
Sorry & Best of Luck to You!
IPAD 2 Disabled
