The iPad is currently the most popular tablet computer on the market and an important electronic product of Apple. However, we will encounter such an embarrassing thing when using the iPad: you set a lock screen password, but suddenly you forget it or someone else uses your iPad to unlock it and continuously enters the wrong password, the iPad will suddenly remind you: iPad has disabled connection to iTunes. So what does it mean that the iPad has been disabled and connected to iTunes? From this perspective, we will explain how to remedy the situation when the iPad is disabled.
What does it mean when the iPad disables connecting to iTunes?
The iPad disables connecting to iTunes is actually when we use the iPad. It is caused by entering the wrong lock screen password more than six times in a row. This is also the iPad's protection mechanism. In addition, the iPad will remind you to use iTunes to connect to the iPad in some cases to solve the problem. At this time, not only the iPad, but also any Apple device will prompt the user to "disable iPad/iPhone, connect to iTunes". However, there is no need to be nervous if this kind of problem occurs. We only need a computer and iTunes to completely restore the device.
How to solve it
Turn off your iPad. If pressing the power button does not work, please press and hold the Home button and the Power button at the same time! Wait for about 10 seconds and the iPad will automatically shut down! First start iTunes on your computer, plug the USB end of the data cable into the computer, press and hold the Home button, and then transfer the data Plug the other end of the cable into the device. Please do not release the Home button during this process! When you see the prompt to connect to iTunes on the phone screen, release the Home button.. iTunes on the computer will pop up: "itunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before using it with itunes." Then you can use itunes to restore your device! After the restore is successful, You can resynchronize the backup and restore your contacts and settings!
Solution to the problem of the connection icon appearing
Another situation is that the iPad is not only unusable, but also has a charging problem. Line icon, at this time we also need the cooperation of iTunes to solve this problem. The method is: first try to press the iPad's home button and the power lock button at the same time for about 5 seconds to let the iPad exit recovery mode. If after following the above operation method, the iTunes connection screen still appears on the screen, it means that the current iPad system has been damaged and needs to be restored again. To restore the iPad system, we need to use iTunes software on the computer to restore it. After the iTunes software is installed, please connect the iPad to the USB port of the computer using the original data cable. When the iPad is connected to the computer, open the iTunes software and you should be prompted that an iPad device in recovery mode has been detected. Then click the "Restore iPad" button in the iTunes window to let iTunes automatically download the firmware system required for recovery. Then iTunes will connect to the Internet to detect the latest firmware system suitable for the current iPad, and prompt us whether to erase the data and restore to this version. Because the current iPad system has crashed, let it be erased and restored. The next step is to wait for iTunes to download the firmware, and then it will automatically restore the firmware to the iPad. Due to network speed, the download speed may be fast or slow, please be patient. Finally, after the recovery is complete, you can reactivate the iPad and use it.
The above two methods are designed to solve the problem of iPad deactivation under different circumstances. Generally speaking, if our iPad, iPhone, etc. Apple devices encountered too many incorrect password entries, causing the device to be disabled and requiring a connection to iTunes.You can use the above method to try to restore the device. However, before operating, you must remember to use iTunes to back up the device first.