Under new rules issued in July by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Apple will no longer be able to offer such apps in its China App Store from next July unless the app operators are registered with the government. The five social media apps named above have been downloaded from Apple's App Store more than 170 million times in China over the last decade, according to estimates by Sensor Tower.Īccording to the report, Chinese officials told Apple staff that it must strictly implement rules banning unregistered foreign apps, thereby closing a loophole allowing Chinese iPhone users to download them. China banned VPN services from the App Store in 2017. Enter theĪpple ID & Password that were used to set up this iPad." I ignored this! & begin to manually set up the new Factory Reset iPad.Apple staff met with Chinese officials in recent months to discuss concerns over new rules that will restrict Apple from offering many foreign apps currently available in its China App Store, according to a new paywalled Wall Street Journal report.Ĭhina already blocks the websites of many popular Western social media apps like Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp, but iPhone users in China can still download the apps from Apple's App Store if they use an unauthorized VPN that connects them to an internet server outside the country. Now several beep/chime sounds of progress are heard from the iPad & the ‘lit up’ white Apple Logo with a white underline,a progress bar, appears on the Black iPad Screen.ġ progress bar completed & another starts & "Activation Lock" appears on iTunes:“This iPad is linked to an Apple ID. I clicked on Restore & confirmed the offered “Restore & Update”a 2nd time & iTunes began downloading & now says “ iTunes is preparing to restore the software on the iPad.” Then D’loaded iTunes update to 12.12.1 & another rebootīut this time I opened iTunes first, after several tries I powered iPad Off,then held Home Button Down while insertingĬable & continued to hold til a beep/chime recgnition sound was heard from iPad or & the alert popup box appeared in iTunes. On Toshiba Laptop: D’loaded iTunes & after reboot needed to install iTunes Thanks I was able to recover using a Windows 10 laptop. All the while this is happening if any of these things take too long the iPad will time out and go back to lock screen.ĭoes anything work? How in the hell is this such a complicated process? all it did was reinstall the firmware and i am STILL LOCKED OUT. in iTunes option click on Update, point directly to firmware, goes through entire process, reboot the iPad, I think i'm good but OH NO. Constantly trying to contact the update server despite the download there (~/Library/iTunes/iPad Software Update). Go through reset process attached to my Macbook. Mac Mohave 10.14.6 (no thanks Catalina no 32 bit support) with iTunes I have been trying for 1.5 days now to get it reset. My son got a new iPad for his birthday and immediately forgot his PIN and locked himself out. I love Apple and have been using since they went Unix in 2001, but the Apple recovery process for iPhones/iPads is HORRIBLE. IPad- NEVERENDING FRUSTRATION I am so frustrated. The Recovery Mode Alert Box & iTunes each have update & restore buttons.And I get the same error messages when I click on any of these buttons.ģ] When I installed iTunes I also installed iCloud,because it showed up as an Apple Update on my PC.Ī] I created a new Apple ID & Password,but I was unable to Log in to iCloud due to this Error: “Cannot Sign in” “Your Apple ID must be used to srt up iCloud on a Mac or an iOS device before you can useī] Also in iTunes> Account> I was unable to“Authorize this Computer”: because, I had never used my Apple ID in iStore. "To RESTORE your iPad with iPadOS 15.0.2, you need to install the latest version of iTunes"ġ] I tried Repair = Reinstall iTunes replacing missing or damged files ,but this didn’t solve the problem.Ģ] NOTE: I am able to get into Recovery Mode,but I never see the "Connect to iTunes"screen,but I don’t think this matters because: iTunes always opens automatically & I see the Recovery Mode Alert Box in iTunes. When I put my iPad into Recovery Mode,iTunes recognizes my iPad īut when try to update or restore I get this error message: This matches the current version for Windows7, 64 Bit I downloaded on from In iTunes when I check at Help> Check for Updates it reports “This version of iTunes I’m trying to restore iTunes to factory because I forgot the passcode for my iPad,6th Generation, Wi-Fi + Cellular.
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