Faster restore from iCloud?

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Faster restore from iCloud?

Hello everyone,

Any suggestion how to restore faster using iCloud? Yesterday at about 5pm. I started restoring on my new ipad64. Today at about 10am. It just completed restoring about 450 photos. Now it is restoring my Apps!! About 10 completed of about 200.

Icloud was sadly my most recent update. iTunes update was 1 week ago. Yesterday I first did an iTunes restore in about an hour or so. But I noticed that I was missing info. So that's why I switched to an iCloud restore.

Any help from the experts out there??

Thanks

iPad 2, iOS 5

Posted on Apr 11, 2012 7:54 AM

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Answer 1

Dah•veed

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Apr 11, 2012 8:01 AM in response to Irahs

iCloud over wireless is always going to be slower than a direct cable restore from your computer. How slow is based on your internet connection, and on how much that you have to restore. When you restore from iCloud ever app that you have acquired will be individually redownloaded. I suggest leaving iCloud restores to emergencies. Even a wireless restore from your computer to the iPad should be faster.

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Answer 2

Irahs Author

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Apr 11, 2012 1:06 PM in response to Dah•veed

Thank you. This is almost one full day into the iCloud restore and, I still have many more apps being restored! You can be sure that I have learnt my lessons about better choices to backup and restore to iTunes and icloud.

Not sure about the necessity of using iCloud.

But thanks for your help.

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