My Ipad was in my purse and now its disabled. IDK what to do because I don't want to reset it. There are a lot of important school things on there. Can someone help me please?!
If it's disabled, then restoring is the only way to get it back.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
If you have a backup, either in iTunes or in iCloud, then you can just restore from that backup and you should get back all your data.
Regards.
I don't have it backed up on stupid Icloud cuz I did not have the money to buy the extra space. Now it seems its restored itself but is stuck on the choosing wifi network... I entered the wifi name here at school and pressed "join" but now it will not progress from there. I can't go back because that is not an option. This is so frustrating! Can you please advise me?
Joining the school's WiFi network is probably something you will need to take up with your school's IT department. Many schools have special security systems for their WiFi which only your IT group would be able to inform you about.
Regards.
Dear ithinkIhateapplenow. I too store lots of school info on my iPad. I don't backup to the Cloud either since I don't think the data in my iPad needs to be reviewed by anyone else other than myself. What I suggest you do immediately is set up your Notes (the app I use to take classnotes) to be emailed to your regular email account. You can do this in Settings. Then if it happens again, at least all your notes will be there in email. As far as pics go, have them sent to your home computer using PhotoStream. That's what I do. I also try to backup to iTunes during the breaks. Once per term is not near often enough, but it's better than nothing, and all I have time for.
So, when my iPad mini became permanently disabled last week, after hanging around in my purse during class, I only lost a little bit of information, all my pictures were on my home computer, and the notes were in my email. I did lose all my calendar appointments and my Safari bookmarks and reading list. Also lots of apps had to be re-downloaded. At least you can easily do this by going to the App icon on your iPad, then picking the "Purchased" tab. Just redownload what you want on your iPad.
The other thing I did was take the password protection off. I had my iPad 1 from 2010 and this never happened EVER until I decided to password protect my iPad mini. Sadly, it's just not worth it to me to have my data lost due to a roving magnet or paperclip in my purse.
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
You may have to do this several times.
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school environment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just canceling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
Cheers, Tom 😉
My Ipad was in my purse and now its disabled.
