Oh dear, this feels awfully familiar.

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So, yesterday then, bit of a spur of the moment thing, but opted to buy a new M4 based iPad Pro (11inch)
The "One before the M series" iPad Air that I had is perfectly capable of a lot of things, but the next generation of AI Features will be leaving it behind, so I decided it was about time to take the plunge and do the upgrade.
I ordered it, and it arrived about 6pm.



I plugged it into the Mac, and the Mac point blank refused to do a backup. I presume this is a Beta issue, but I'm not sure.
I also tried doing the backup on my old MacMini, and that didn't work either.
The only option then, was an iCloud Backup.
I hadn't done an iCloud backup before, mostly because iCloud storage is bloody expensive, but the iPad Transfer tool seemed to think that was the best way to go.

I'm pretty sure that, when I did MacBook to MacBook, the data literally went from one to the other. Quite why the iPad can't do the same, I'm not 100% sure.
But there we go.

So I set off the iCloud backup, and as I type this it's 10:30pm, and the backup is at 52%..
Seriously?!
Nnngh..

If you have an iPad, and you can afford the iCloud backup, I strongly urge you to do that now, before it becomes stupidly frustrating.

I'll get to play with my new iPad tomorrow, I suppose. (though that'll be today, because I wrote this yesterday. Timey wimey, and all that.)

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