This Apple ID has already restored to the maximum number of devices in the last 90 days

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This Apple ID has already restored to the maximum number of devices in the last 90 days

Has anyone seen this error message "This Apple ID has already restored to the maximum number of devices in the last 90 days"? We get this when we use iCloud to restore a master backup to iPads in a school computer lab. The first 9 or so restores go without a problem and then we start getting the error. The iPads are running iOS 5.01.

We previously used iTunes to do the restore and did not have a problem, but it takes a long time to deploy to the 25 iPads. We were hoping that using iCloud would be faster.

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 6:00 PM

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gyrhead

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Feb 24, 2012 6:06 AM in response to bbrockmeyer

9. You’re limited to a maximum of 10 devices. With the ability to re-download content from everywhere, Apple has limited the number of devices that can participate in iTunes in the Cloud for a given account. The new terms allow for a total of 10 devices, five of which can be computers running iTunes. This means you could have five iOS devices and five computers authorized, or one computer and nine iOS devices, or any combination of the two.

Fortunately, this limitation only applies to iTunes in the Cloud features—you can still sync content directly from an authorized iTunes library to an unlimited number of iPods or iOS devices; the limitation only applies to authorizing devices to re-download or automatically download content directly from the iTunes Store.

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Feb 24, 2012 12:04 PM in response to gyrhead

Thanks, using the iCloud restoe was sugested to us by a trainer at a Apple store who did not mention this limitation and the support person we talked to at Apple support also had no idea why we received the error. He said he was going to look into it and get back to us, that was 3 days ago and still no word.

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Dec 27, 2013 3:22 AM in response to bbrockmeyer

Did you fix it ? I have the same problem but in my iPod it said "This device is aldeady associated with an apple id" "You can auto-download purchases on this device with just one Apple ID every 90days. You cannot associate this device with a different Apple ID for 89 days" please help me i don't understand what there saying ...I don't no if it make sense ...

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Nov 25, 2016 12:14 AM in response to bbrockmeyer

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