Can't restore from backup without buying another cable

[AppleHaterLover]

You realize that this doesn’t get back at Apple at all. It gets back at you and me and all the other Apple customers. It costs Apple money to check and repackage or reuse the cable, but they pass that extra cost on by raising the prices of everything to cover it.

I’m not against using the return policy legitimately, but if you are buying something exclusively to use once and return then that’s just not right.

I’ve seen a Specialist suggesting exacty this to a friend of mine when he needed an Ethernet adapter for 1 day just to set up a router.

 

[tbayrgs]

Well, shame on you for having an older laptop. This is a high end device and it has to ship with a cable: I was on your team until I got a USB-C MBP. If I’m buying the latest devices, Apple should favor me, right?

What’s really unacceptable is that they wouldn’t lend you a cable at the store. They should have done that.

What i think you could do to get back at them is getting a brand new cable from them, using it just for that and return it within the window.

Apple doesn’t sell usb-a to usb-c cables so no opportunity to ‘get back at them’.

I understand being frustrated at not being given a cable specific to your needs but there’s always going to be someone that’s not pleased during these port transitions.

Apple does ultimately provide a way for everyone to restore from a backup (iCloud).

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Apple doesn’t sell usb-a to usb-c cables so no opportunity to ‘get back at them’.

I understand being frustrated at not being given a cable specific to your needs but there’s always going to be someone that’s not pleased during these port transitions.

Apple does ultimately provide a way for everyone to restore from a backup (iCloud).

Well, the more you know... I thought that surely they would have made this cable, but now it’s clear they don’t give a flying **** about their customer base instead of just not caring about them too much.

 

[largefarrva]

Apple does sell USB C to USB A adapters. I can’t believe that the Apple employee that tried to help the OP didn’t know about these adapters. They are the same ones that Apple discounted to $9 for several months after the first MBPs with touchbars came out. We have two of them here at my home.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/...-adapter?fnode=8b&fs=f=adapter&fh=4595%2B45b0

 

[BrettDS]

Apple does sell USB C to USB A adapters. I can’t believe that the Apple employee that tried to help the OP didn’t know about these adapters. They are the same ones that Apple discounted to $9 for several months after the first MBPs with touchbars came out. We have two of them here at my home.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/...-adapter?fnode=8b&fs=f=adapter&fh=4595%2B45b0

But as stated above, that adapter allows you to connect a computer with a USB-C port to an accessory with a USB-A connector. This won’t help the OP who needs to connect the iPad Pro with a USB-C port to a computer with a USB-A port. He needs the opposite of this adapter, which Apple doesn’t sell right now.

 

[iapplelove]

Doesn’t restoring a backup from iCloud take much, much longer compared to a local backup?

That’s why I still back up to my Mac. I do back up to iCloud as well just in case everything goes down at once.

But when I do restore from a backup my Mac is always first choice.
[doublepost=1541946098][/doublepost]What’s funny is cheaper android phones come with both cables.

Not that I was expecting the cable in the box.

 

[jazzer15]

But as stated above, that adapter allows you to connect a computer with a USB-C port to an accessory with a USB-A connector. This won’t help the OP who needs to connect the iPad Pro with a USB-C port to a computer with a USB-A port. He needs the opposite of this adapter, which Apple doesn’t sell right now.

I need a USB-C to USB-A cable also. Won't the adapter that Apple sells work with an existing USB cable (i.e., plug one end into the iPad pro and then take a USB cable and plug one end into the adapter and the other into the computer)?

 

[BrettDS]

I need a USB-C to USB-A cable also. Won't the adapter that Apple sells work with an existing USB cable (i.e., plug one end into the iPad pro and then take a USB cable and plug one end into the adapter and the other into the computer)?

I’m not sure tbh. You would need a male USB-A to male USB-A cable for that. Those cables do exist, but they aren’t very common. You aren’t likely to have one just laying around and if you have to buy another cable anyway then you may as well buy the USB-A to USB-C cable that you actually need.

And even if so you have or buy such a cable I don’t know if it would work with the adapter as it’s not designed to work that way.

 

[jazzer15]

I’m not sure tbh. You would need a male USB-A to male USB-A cable for that. Those cables do exist, but they aren’t very common. You aren’t likely to have one just laying around and if you have to buy another cable anyway then you may as well buy the USB-A to USB-C cable that you actually need.

And even if so you have or buy such a cable I don’t know if it would work with the adapter as it’s not designed to work that way.

Good point. I don't know why I was thinking I would have a USB-A to USB-A cable around, but I don't. I assume this should work?

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics...1542158923&sr=8-3-acs&keywords=usb+c+to+usb+a

 

[BrettDS]

Good point. I don't know why I was thinking I would have a USB-A to USB-A cable around, but I don't. I assume this should work?

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics...1542158923&sr=8-3-acs&keywords=usb+c+to+usb+a

Should be fine. I used a 6 foot black amazon basics cable to connect my new iPad to my USB-A only windows pc.