My Ipad 2 Can't Be Activated After update to IOS 9.3

same here

Having the exact same problem with the Ipad 2, just updated it, rebooted and now its coming up with the same 'ipad could not be activated message' how annoying! I use mine for work purposes absolute nightmare. 😟

Me too, and its 11pm UK. Still having the problem.

same issue here, updated my ipad2 about 8 hours ago. getting the same error and cannot activate it 😟

earlier I had the same issue with my friend's iPhone 4, but I was able to resolve it by removing his device from "Find my iPhone" but it did not resolve my iPad 2 issue!.

Never states to connect with cable to Itunes

What a useless IOS update that was. I think Apple just tried to kill-off our iPads2 with this IOS update and nothing else.

All that headache since this morning for nothing! I lost all my Apps and everything else that was on the iPad.

Won't be doing any updates in the future.

Thanks for (NOT) testing the platform properly Apple.

Nothing happen when i do the second step, HELP PLEASE, i need this iPad 2 for work

The instructions above for Ipad 2 are a little off. Open I Tunes, then do a reset by holding home and power button. Keep holding them down. Screen will go black then after a few moments the apple Icon will appear. Continue to hold BOTH power and home buttons. Eventually-around 10 seconds later it will go into recover mode. For me I had option to update or restore. I'm trying update first and see if that cures it, otherwise reset and restore here I come. Hope this helps.

I tried doing the update before restore and it failed and said iTunes could not detect the iPad, so the only option to get it working again was to restore it. It went through the entire cycle of installing the software all over again and at the end it gave me the option to start it as a new iPad or use one of the back-ups. Unfortunately for me, the computer which I got the iPad hooked up to only had a back-up copy from 2014, so I used that anyway and just finished updating all of the Apps that I have lost. Not happy at all.

The same thing happened with me I couldn't update, had to restore and I didn't have a backup on the PC 😟, I lost everything on the iPad (some are from 2011).

seems that I trusted Apple more than they deserve.

I spoke too soon!!!

What the **** is going on Apple???

After downloading all of the Apps that I lost and while operating the iPad normally for an hour or so, the screen flicks back to "iPad requires activation" and I am now back to square one where I can't get it activated.

What's happening?

I've read about this happening to various people that have restored from backup w/ DFU (and stayed on 9.3)... which is why I am not even going to bother attempting to do a restore (my last backup is from mid-November since I now see that iTunes stopped auto-backing up my iPad 2 for some #$&*(@#$ reason... iPhone 5S and iPad 1 are still backing up properly every few days via WiFi... but the iPad 2 decided to stop and naturally I did not notice...)

Apple better fix their activation servers! Grrr