What to do when iPad is disabled

“This morning, i want to use my iPad to take some sunrise photos. But then i find my iPad is disabled, it’s my first time to come across this issue. What to do when my iPad is disabled?”

When we input out iPad with wrong password for several times, our iPad will be disabled. Especially there are some children in our home, they may try to log in it, when they input the wrong password, our iPad will be disabled easily. Or with some other reason, our iPad is disabled. All in all, it’s always happening.

Now in this page, we’ll learn how to fix your iPad disabled issue. Read it and learn more.

Fix iPad disabled issue

When our iPad is permanently disabled, we’ll need to reset our iPad to factory settings. So you will lose all your iPad data by doing this action. But on the other hand, it can be a protection for your iPad, because it your iPad or iPhone is stolen or lost, someone get it and try to log in it, then it’ll be disabled. If then they have to set it to factory setting, in this case, they couldn’t check your personal files.

And we can do it by using Find My iPad feature, and reset it through iCloud. It can be done from remote, which means even you don’t have your iPhone or iPad, you can still set your iPhone or iPad to factory setting.

If we haven’t turn on “Find My iPad” feature, the best option is to set it with the same PC we usually use it to sync iPad data to iTunes. Then connect your iPad to PC with an USB cable, and launching your iTunes as well. Then it’ll start sync progress, when finish it, you can restore your iPad.

How to recover your iPad data when reset iPad to Factory settings

When reset iPad to factory setting, we’ll lose all our iPad data, unless we have done some backups, we can restore them from our backup. But what if we didn’t do any backup? Is it possible to recover iPad data after resetting iPad to factory settings?

Yes, there is still a way can help us recover iPad data. But we’ll need to relay on third-party iOS data recovery software, here we recommend iRefone.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can recover more than 16 kinds of files even you didn’t do any backup, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp messages ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows us to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPad with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.

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Step 2. When we enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “WeChat Attachment” for example. And it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 3. After scanning, then you can preview and choose WeChat photos, tap on “Recover to PC” and choose the folder path to save them, and it’ll be ok.