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  1. S

    Is restoring from backup the worst thing ever?

    Please tell me if I'm an idiot or doing things totally wrong, or is restoring your iPhone from a backup the worst thing ever? My wife recently had some iPhone trouble. We were told we needed to restore the phone to factory settings before we brought it in for repair. The phone does regular...
  2. B

    dfu restore and app data

    Hello, I am about to perform a dfu restore on my iPhone ‘cause lately I’ve been experiencing battery problems (phone turns off before reaching 1%), and having excluded other possible causes I am assuming it’s a firmware-related issue. Not having performed such an operation before on my device...
  3. AppleSmack

    Who uses Paragon HDM for Mac?

    I'm looking for a imaging/cloning solution for my new tbMBP 2016. At the moment, I'm using TimeMachine for backup, though as my MBP is used for my work too, I also want cloning for the speedy restores in an emergency. As a former PC user, I've always used Paragon's backup/restore software...
  4. seisbye

    Can't restore

    I have bought a new SSD drive to replace my 5 year old HDD. i have also bought a Corsair cable so the new drive are connected through USB.. i have deleted the partitions on the new, with the Journaled mac profile. When i then select the new drive and choose restore, and choose the HDD as...
  5. terrab

    Restore iOS 8.4 on iPAD2

    Hello, My iPad2 GSM is sick ! It did not power up after going to standby ; I must to press POWER and HOME to turn it back on. So I changed the battery ... but the symptom is worse; It does not restart with POWER and HOME buttons ; However, sometimes I can restart it ... if I leave it on (USB...
  6. musicist.saurav

    How to recover unsaved lost photos! Need Help.

    Hi all, I am using iPhone 6 plus. My iPhone's touchscreen was not working properly. So, service centre replaced it with a new set. Recently I took some photos on that set. To transfer them to my computer I connected it using the USB cable. iTune opened. It asked me whether I want to use my...
  7. C

    Is my iMac completely screwed?

    Here is the sequence of events: 1. The graphics card broke on my iMac. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find a new one for my 2010 model. So I decided I would get a new computer and sell this one for parts. At this point, I could only start the computer in safe mode. 2. I wiped my hard drive, using...
  8. C

    I erased the wrong drive

    I want to sell my old iMac, so I tried to erase my hard drive. I started it using Internet Recovery. However, instead of selecting the SATA Internal Physical Volume, I selected the Internal Physical Disk and hit "Erase". It seems to have screwed things up. The SATA Volume is now grayed out and...
  9. B

    Cannot Restore or Update Jailbroken iPhone

    My iphone 6s is jailbroken on ios 9.3.3 and after installing a tweak my phone resprung but the spinning wheel got stuck while turning and my phone wasn't turning off or on. So I reboot my phone pressing both home & power button and of course my phone had to be rejailbroken again. However, when I...
  10. J

    HELP with Time Machine Backup Please!!

    I'm in dire need of some help. Is there anyway to get past having to enter my password to access my external hard drive that I have connected to Time Machine? I used it to backup some files last year and the password I use for everything isn't working to unlock the hard drive. Is there a way...
  11. X

    iPad - Lock-screen passcode reset/recovery help!

    Hi, I cannot believe I’m having to ask this. I stupidly changed my iPad Air 2 lock-screen passcode the other night from the old 4-digit passcode to a 6-digit one (thumb and finger prints still intact) but I’ve already managed to forget it. Yes, I am embarrassed and yes, I hope this isn’t a sign...
  12. M

    Can't restore IPSW on EMPTY iPhone SE 16gb; iTunes says "memory is full"

    Could anybody help with this problem? My iPhone SE 16gb is completely empty, and whenever I try to restore the IPSW through iTunes (latest version), it always says that the memory is full. :(
  13. Mason Dulemba

    iPhone 4 wont complete restore

    I have an iPhone 4 (iPhone 3,1), I reset all content and settings (Was working fine, a friend just wanted me to clear its memory before he gave it to me, after it reset, i was going through the setup process and when i got past the country selection in the setup process, it asked me to connect...
  14. baryon

    Upgrading to Sierra has messed up my carefully organized Launchpad, how do I restore the old layout?

    Maybe I haven't used Launchpad since upgrading to Sierra, I'm not sure, but today I noticed for the first time that my apps and folders in Launchpad are an absolute, complete mess, with multiple pages of unorganized icons. My custom folders are there, but they're all empty. All my apps are all...
  15. E

    iPhone 6 home button ripped

    Hi, yesterday my iPhone home button started to randomly stop working but Touch ID did, tried a-lot of things to fix and 1 of them was a ludicrous and stupid idea of "pressing the home button and twisting" I was so tired and frustrated of trying to make it work that I gave up and did it. and then...
  16. jgelin

    Photos in iCould backup and photo library?

    Hello all, I have a weird thing going on where I have both my Photos Library backing up to the iCloud backup and the iCloud photo library is turned on too... It was my understanding that this should not happen, and it is also stated as such in Apple’s support documentation. My question is...
  17. tromboneaholic

    Pillow App Issue After Restore

    I performed a password-encrypted iPhone backup to iTunes on my Mac and then erased all content and settings on the iPhone. When I restored the iPhone from the backup, all sleep analysis was missing from the Pillow app. The sleep data recorded by Pillow is in Health, but not in Pillow - even...
  18. PieTunes

    Restore from backup is missing

    Good day, I got my Apple Watch back from depot today (the rubber gasket around the crown came out so they replaced the watch). I'm trying to restore from a backup and the list to restore from is only showing backups from April and before, not the backup that was done when I unpaired the watch...
  19. Dark Soul

    Whatsapp Recovery Problem

    Hey Guys i have problem With my whatsapp and i really need help because i have a personal important messages The problem is i had to update the app so i uploaded chat backup to i Cloud when i reinstalled the app i downloaded the backup from icloud but the whatsapp stopped at preparing See the...
  20. Z

    Restoring my iPhone backup

    I have erased all contents and settings and restored using a backup from iTunes. All seems well so far but as far as the apps that have been restored, they are grayed and there is an inscription saying "waiting" when i pressed them to open. What is going on?