how to restore from iPad backup?

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Created Jul ’19

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Today I did a backup of my iPhone and iPad, and restored them from ipsw files to be on iOS 13 beta 3 and iPad OS beta 3. My MobileSync/Backup folder had two folders in it, with the sizes and modified times making sense for the two backups I had done.

The iPhone restored from backup correctly, but when trying to restore from backup on the iPad, the drop down menu only shows the iPhone's backup.

This is in Catalina by the way. Is there a way to manually select the iPad backup, or something I need to do to make it appear in the menu along with the iPhone backup?

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Colin Holgate OP

Jul ’19

I tried another approach, which was to let the iPad restore from the last iCloud backup (which was the one from today). That seemed to work.

Still curious about how I could have restored from the backup that Catalina had made.

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