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Welcome, I'm going to use an iPad from 2021 and today I will show you how to hard reset
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the device using iTunes. So to get started, obviously you don't need iTunes if you're using a Windows computer
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Now if you're using a Mac, you don't actually need to download anything
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Everything that you need is already pre-baked into the system. So on Mac, simply open up your Finder, meaning Finder, if you don't know what it is, it's
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basically like Windows Explorer. So basically where you see all the folders and stuff like that
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And when you plug in your device, it will show up somewhere like right here
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So from there, once you click on it, I'll just plug it in right now
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There we go. So once we plug it in, give it a second, and in here we get notification that there
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is a new version of iOS. I'll select later for now. And normally, as you can see, on iTunes it will show up right here, and like I mentioned
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on Finder, it will also show up somewhere on the side panel, but it will be in Finder
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instead of iTunes. And again, once you click on the device right there, you will have the summary tab, which
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you want to go to. And in here, you will see Restore iPad
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Now I'll also mention that you can see right here way more tabs than you will be able to
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see on the Mac. Through Finder you only see just a couple of those, so Music and Movies, I think like
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that, I don't think it's actually showing up in the Finder, it's only Accessible Track
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and Music Application and stuff like that. But it doesn't really matter, it doesn't change anything
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From here, select Restore iPad, and there is a little caveat, number one, if you try
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to restore it for the first time, if you haven't done so, it will tell you that you need to
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disable Find My Device. All you need to do to do it is navigate into the settings on your iPad, select your account
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and from here find Find My, select Find My iPad, and toggle it off
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Now when you toggle it off, it will require a password for your Apple ID, so simply provide
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that and then it will toggle it off and you can proceed further on the computer
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And additionally, if you do it for the first time, it will bring up a window where you
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basically press Next and I think Download, whatever the window was saying, I don't exactly
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remember, but it's basically a download for the iOS. So you will probably need to wait like 20 minutes for it to finish downloading
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If I remember correctly for this iPad right here, the iOS size is about 5GB or something
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along those lines, so it will vary how long you will be downloading it, depending on how
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quick your internet speed is. I already went through it, I downloaded it, so we don't actually have to wait here
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So yeah, let's just jump straight to it now. So select Reset iPad once you have the iOS downloaded, and you will have two options
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either Back It Up or Don't Back Up. The choice is yours, if you want to keep some things that are on this device, do Back It
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Up, if you don't want to keep anything, select Don't Back Up. And then Restore and Update
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There is no way of not updating the device if you're doing it through iTunes
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It's just Apple's way of forcing you into a newest version even if you don't like it
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So as you can see, it's right now at the top extracting software, and then it's going to begin installing it, which at that point the tablet itself will turn off
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And basically once you begin, it's straight up on autopilot till the end, till you see
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the setup screen. So I'm just going to let it run and come back once it's finished
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And as you can see, now the process is finished, and you can setup your device however you like
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