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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood

My mum is locked out of her Apple iPad and can’t get her photos

Locked out of an iPad and unable to find a way back in.
Locked out of an iPad and unable to find a way back in. Photograph: Tetiana Vitsenko/Alamy

My 79-year-old mother has found herself locked out of her Apple iCloud account and denied access to many years’ worth of family photos saved on her original iPad.

She has had long periods in hospital and her iPad is very precious. The device concerned is a old model and she neglected to update the software.

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