iOS 8.3 a disaster

Didn't have any such problem. How much free space is on your machine?

did you update OTA or thru iTunes? I think it makes a big difference

I updated OTA on both my phone and iPad.

i find OTA is hit or miss...itunes ALWAYS WORKS FOR ME. The OTA download is 293ish MB...while the iTunes one was 1.83 gigs...leading me to believe its a patchwork update

You really shouldn't have waited until you were in the middle of this "fiasco" before you created a backup, if that is what you actually did. And if it is what you did, it's no wonder that it was corrupt. I know that your iPad is only six weeks old, but you shouldn't wait that long to backup. With iCloud and automatic backups, or with iTunes and automatic WiFi syncing, there is no reason to not have been backing up. IMO, you really have to work at preventing backups to not have backed up several times in six weeks.

I'm not trying to come off like an a-hole. You've had enough problems for one day with your iPad. I just hope you have learned from the experience. I had no issues at all updating and I'm guessing that millions of people will update without any issues at all. There could be a very good reason why the update went south on you, but without knowing more information as to how you updated, how you use your iPad on a daily basis, what you have on your iPad, etc. it's really difficult to explain why it happened.

I hope that you get it all sorted out and that rebuking the iPad goes smoothly for you. But I also believe that your experience will be that of a small percentage of iOS device users.

I've never had a problem with a delta OTA update. Knock on digitally rendered wood.

ChazThePhoenix wrote:

i find OTA is hit or miss...itunes ALWAYS WORKS FOR ME. The OTA download is 293ish MB...while the iTunes one was 1.83 gigs...leading me to believe its a patchwork update

I Have updated both ways over the years and since iOS 5 came out, the overwhelming majority of my updates have come using WiFi OTA, in fact, two of the major updates (iOS 6 and iOS 7) that I did were when I was at work using an ad hoc network that I create with the Ethernet connection to my iMac. I have never had issues with an OTA update.

ChazThePhoenix wrote:

i find OTA is hit or miss...itunes ALWAYS WORKS FOR ME.

And how many times is that?

deggie wrote:

I've never had a problem with a delta OTA update. Knock on digitally rendered wood.

Neither have I.

That is very surprising! You should visit an Apple Retail Store. Then, go to the Genius Bar. They can solve anything.😎

Rebuking was obviously supposed to be rebuilding. Sometimes I hate autocorrect because it doesn't correct grammar. I get ticked off so I disable it, then I feel like I need it, so I enable it again. I just can't make up my mind what I want to do. Throw in the quirks that crop up here using Safari on an iPad in the ASC and when I read some of the responses I have posted, even I'm not sure what I meant when I wrote the reply!

I couldn't tell from your first post if you were backing up or not, so that's why I responded the way that I did. You can archive backups so that you always have a good one in the backup folder. If you want to save or archive a backup, just right click on the backup in window where your backups appear and select Archive.

For Windows - Edit>Preferences>Devices>Right click on the backup for the device. For Mac - iTunes>Preferences>Devices....

I have read this response three times now, and I hope it doesn't have any glaring typo screw ups again. 😝

Newstech wrote:

8.3 upgrade killed my iPad Air 2. It's about 6 weeks old, having been updated from an iPad 1 with hundreds of apps.

6 weeks old? Why bother trying to fix anything? It's under warranty. Take it to Apple store and let them clean up the mess.

Demo wrote:

You can archive backups so that you always have a good one in the backup folder. If you want to save or archive a backup, just right click on the backup in window where your backups appear and select Archive.

For Windows - Edit>Preferences>Devices>Right click on the backup for the device. For Mac - iTunes>Preferences>Devices....

I didn't know that option exists. Thanks for the tip. Does that mean we can have multiple backups stored in the computer storage? If so, how do we choose which backup set to restore from?