How to Erase and Factory Reset your iPad! By AppleInsider

With rumors pointing to a fresh line-up of iPads in the coming months. You may be thinking about selling your current iPad and upgrading to a new one. When selling are giving away your iPad, you need to make sure to protect your data and leave a clean slate for the next owner. We'll take you through all the steps you need to take to ensure your iPad is safely wiped before passing it on to its next owner, if you're locked out of your iPad click the card above to learn how to unlock it. Otherwise, the first step is to back up all your data there are two great options to do so, the first being iCloud backup in a second being iTunes. If you've already backed up all of your data, you can skip ahead to this section of the video to back up your iPad to iCloud head to settings tap on your name and tap on iCloud.

As you scroll down you'll see all the apps that are being backed up to iCloud, make sure that your photos and contacts are being backed up, as those are the most important things you want to transfer over to your new iPad, now tap iCloud backup enable and tap Backup. Now you may receive an error message, saying: there's not enough iCloud space available to back up your iPad. Now there's a few ways to fix this. The first is to simply upgrade your iCloud storage plan, so you'll have enough available storage for your backup. You can do this by going to your iCloud storage settings page and tapping change storage plan.

The second fix is to reduce the amount of saved data on your iPad's internal storage. Videos undoubtedly take up the most storage. You can review them by going to Settings, General, iPad storage, photos and then review personal videos simply tap on one to see a preview. Now you can swipe through each video, and if you see when you don't care for tap the screen, tap pause and tap delete. You can also head into your iCloud storage settings and tap backups.

There may be some backups of other devices that are taking up a lot of iCloud storage space. There may even be backups of devices you no longer own, simply tap on unneeded backups and delete them. Lastly, if you're using family sharing, there may be other users who are taking up the bulk of your iCloud storage head to the iCloud storage settings and tap family usage. You can now see which users are using up the most space and ask them to review their photos and videos to reduce the amount of iCloud storage space they're. Taking up once you have enough storage space available in iCloud, you can head back to your iCloud backup settings and tap Backup.

Now the second great option for backing up your iPads data is to use iTunes, and it's completely free download, iTunes on a PC or a Mac and update it to the latest version. Then use a lightning to USB cable to connect your iPad to your computer. Click, continue on your computer and then tap trusts on your iPad and enter your passcode. Your iPad should now be connected to your computer, and the system summary page should show up within the backups section click on this computer. You should also click the checkbox below it to encrypt your backup.

This will allow your passwords and other sensitive data to be synced. You'll have to enter a password to protect your iPad backup, make sure to write this password down and store it in a safe place. You should also click. Remember this password in my keychain in case you forget it now: click set password. Your iPad should now start backing up once finished click.

The eject button. Next to your devices name in iTunes and unplug it from your computer. Before resetting your iPad head into your iCloud settings, tap, find my iPad and disable it. This will disassociate your iPad from your account after you reset it to erase in factory reset your iPad head into settings general scroll to the bottom of the page, tap reset and then tap erase all content and settings. You can tap backup then erase if you want the most up-to-date, iCloud, backup or just click erase.

Now, if you just finished backing up your data enter your password and tap erase when it's finished, resetting it'll be back to the hello installation screen and ready to sell or give away. This is also the same screen. You will see when you purchase a new iPad to restore your data on to your new iPad. Continue through the installation process, you can choose to set it up using quick start by bringing another iPhone or iPad next to the device, but will choose to set up manually now, connect to Wi-Fi and continue through the installation until you reach the apps and data screen now choose restore from iCloud backup signing to your iCloud and accept the terms and conditions, choose your desired backup and continue through the rest of the installation. Your iPad should now start restoring from iCloud.

The device will restart and should now be ready for use. All of your apps should start downloading and installing as well to restore your data using iTunes, tap, restore from iTunes backup then connect your iPad to your computer. You can now choose the desired backup to restore from, and click continue to enter your password and click. Ok, your iPad will now start restoring once finished press the home button and typing your passcode continue through the rest of the installation in your iPad should be ready to use. If you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe, button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily, be sure to follow us on social media, and we'll see you in the next video.

Source : AppleInsider