So, by some complex events that will be mighty lengthy to include here, an iPad mini landed on my desk. The user of this iPad handed it over to another person (this old user has forgotten the password of the Apple ID used in setting up the tablet), this means the new user can’t do much with it in its present state.

I have always considered Apple products to be very user friendly (having owned only an iPod, myself), I thought fixing the problem will be a piece of cake. I quickly proceeded to remove the old account (Apple ID) from iTunes and added mine; then another problem came up. I have my card linked to this account, you will understand with me that I shouldn’t hand over my account to a stranger. In the end, it boiled down to resetting the iPad to factory settings.

It’s usually easy to do that on other devices I’ve used (Android phones and tablet, Windows Phone etc.), I went ahead and tried it only to be greeted with a prompt requesting the forgotten password of the previous user. I thought that was awkward, considering that I had the tablet in my hands and whatever that password was securing was already open. Yet, I couldn’t restore the iPad to factory defaults. Not to be defeated I plugged the iPad to my laptop and fired up iTunes. Viola! I was in, the rest will be piece of cake.

All I had to do was backup the information in the tablet and click “restore”. That was when I saw something very strange,

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