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mk313

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My daughter has an ancient iPad (Pro 9.7") that the battery is starting to only last a few hours on. I updated it to an iPad 9th Gen that we were no longer using.

The issue is the Pro was 128 GB storage & the 9th Gen is 64GB (which I didn't realize at the time)

I set it up last night & it started the restore. Everything looked to be working fine, but I woke up this morning to a notice that the Restore ran out of room. I cleared out a bunch of stufff & there is now plenty of room on iPad for the restore (it needs 10.25 GB of RAM space, and there is over 22 GB available.

The iPad notes all seem to say that the iPad is currently being resorted and will be ready soon, but it seems like it's stuck. I fixed this issue about 4 1/2 hours ago & it still saying 10.24 GB left to restore.

Is there a way to help the restore kick back off? I don't see any buttons or anything anywhere to 'restart' it & I don't want to stop restoring (which is the only option I see). I'd like it to just start downloading the rest of the data it needs.

Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious.
 
You’ll need to erase & restart the restore, I’m afraid. End the current restore; then Settings - General - Transfer or Reset - Erase All Contents & Settings. Then start over.
 
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You’ll need to erase & restart the restore, I’m afraid. End the current restore; then Settings - General - Transfer or Reset - Erase All Contents & Settings. Then start over.
Appreciate it. I was hoping there was some better alternative, but seeing as it still has not progressed, you're right. Thanks for the help.
 
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