Q: iTunes backup restore won't finish after update to 9.1
HI there,
after upgrading my iPad Air 2 128gb to IOS 9.1 restoring from iTunes does not finish. The folders are showing unfinished loading circles and most of the apps in the folders appear to be dark (kind of greyed out). The "dark" apps are not working.
I backed up the iPad to iTunes to my Mac Mini right before the upgrade to 9.1, the backup finished without any problem. Before the upgrade I had abou 17gb of free space left on the iPad.
The upgrade did not finish properly. It got stuck on a white screen with a black apple logo. After pressing the home and the on button for longer than 10 seconds I was able to reset the iPad. The new attempt to set it up failed again. After another reset it would install and did a restore which ended up unfinished with lots of dark app icons.
I repeated the procedure for three time but the restore never finished completely. The restores ended up with different numbers of loaded apps varying from about 50 to 70 gb of free space left.
What can I do to get my iPad to finish the restore process?
Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
iPad Air, iOS 9.1
Posted on Nov 22, 2015 12:16 AM

