Activation server

Today, i opened my IPad… a message pops up saying

your Ipad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting your ipad to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a couple of a minutes.

after couple of minutes I tried but still the same. Any help?

iPad mini 3, iOS 12

Posted on Oct 9, 2021 12:57 PM

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Oct 10, 2021 4:20 PM in response to sas176

Hello sas176,


Thank you for reaching out in Apple Support Communities. We understand you're unable to activate an iPad, as an error message appears that it cannot reach the activation server. We'll be happy to help.


To help troubleshoot this error message, we recommend following the steps outlined in this helpful article, which are the same for iPad: If you can't activate your iPhone 


We hope this helps.


Cheers!

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