iPad transfer onto new iPad - easy?

longwalks1

I’ve got an old iPad mini that’s about 7 years old. If I back it up onto iCloud and buy an iPad air 2020, can I restore it to my new Air?

and if I have a clear out on my old iPad mini, delete all the rubbish off it, then back it up, will it delete the old apps and photos from iCloud, so when I restore to my new iPad, I only get the latest data? 

edwel1793

britishboy said:

I’ve got an old iPad mini that’s about 7 years old. If I back it up onto iCloud and buy an iPad air 2020, can I restore it to my new Air?

You sure can as long as you use the same iCloud account.

britishboy said:

and if I have a clear out on my old iPad mini, delete all the rubbish off it, then back it up, will it delete the old apps and photos from iCloud, so when I restore to my new iPad, I only get the latest data? 

If you have backed up those rubbish as well on your iCloud before clearing them out, it will remain there. If you want to delete things from iCloud, you'd have to them in there.

mostlyharmless

You don’t need to back it up to iCloud to do the transfer.  When setting up the new iPad you put it close to the old one when prompted during the setup and it will then transfer your data and settings from the old one.  This should be faster than restoring from iCloud.  It will still download the apps from the AppStore to make sure they are up to date.

Roland_Sausage

mostlyharmless said:

You don’t need to back it up to iCloud to do the transfer.  When setting up the new iPad you put it close to the old one when prompted during the setup and it will then transfer your data and settings from the old one.  This should be faster than restoring from iCloud.  It will still download the apps from the AppStore to make sure they are up to date.

You can do this, however if you buy the new one at an Apple store, there's some trade in value to be had for the old one ( they recently gave me £110 for my 5 year old iPad Air 2) and you will have to factory reset it before handing it over.

a_car_person

Besides a Factory Reset if selling YOU MUST REMOVE THE ICLOUD ACCOUNT otherwise it will default to yours and cannot be resold (at least with who I used) didn’t know this until I sold some old iPhones

village_saver

How to delete photos from old I pad without them disappearing from the new I pad which I’ve transferred them to. 

Any advice please

Sandtree

You log out of iCloud first, it will give you options then. Once out then anyhting you do wont replicate.

village_saver

Thanks Sandtree, all done.