IPad – Restoring Saved Webpages on Home Screen from Backup

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I ran into an update issue with my iPad, and took it to the Apple store to fix it. When I got there, an employee said that I could only recover from the issue by resetting my iPad. After he reset it, it was left in the 'new' state. I managed to restore my information from a backup that was made a few months back, but one of the most important things that wasn't restored were a large number of Safari webpages saved to the homescreen, organized into sub-folders, etc. These represent quite a large time investment to manually restore, and it may be impossible for me to do so from memory.

I read through this post about restoring additional information through an iTunes re-sync, but I'm not sure that the linked scenario applies here, and I don't have a device to test this with.

I tried reaching out to Apple support / the Apple store, but they could not or would not help me.

Any help that you could provide to restore these saved webpages would be incredibly appreciated! 🙂

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For a restore to work, the data must be backed up in the first place.

I managed to restore my information from a backup that was made a few months back, but one of the most important things that wasn't restored were a large number of Safari webpages saved to the home screen

The critical piece here is, was all that work you did backed up at any point? If the last backup was made "a few months back," you won't be able to restore anything since because it simply doesn't exist. From what you describe, it wasn't backed up.

Unfortunately, nobody is going to be able to assist as you've found with your latest interaction with Apple. You will have to re-create it from memory.

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I hopefully have a solution to this issue. I also had this problem, and I believe it's because you have insuffient disk space and iTunes being a large program requires so much disk space to be available in order to perform these tasks.

Therefore, iTunes will bring up the error after reaching 2/3 of the way and then the error appears: "iTunes could not restore the iPod/iphone 'NAME' because the backup could not be saved on the computer." The backup you did is there because you're obviously selecting it when "restoring from backup". So free up some disk space and redo the "restore from backup" and it should complete the process without any errors.

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This may also be a software issue, you can attempt getting your iPhone into DFU Mode in order to restore not only your contects...etc... but also reinstall iOS (as it may have installed incorrectly).

As it is stated at this webpage:
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Entering DFU Mode (Official Instructions)

Plug your device into your computer.
Turn off the device.
Hold the Power button for 3 seconds
Hold the Home button without releasing the Power button for 10 seconds
Release the Power Button but keep holding the Home button
Keep holding the Home button until you are alerted by iTunes saying that it has detected a device in Recovery Mode

Then you should be able to click the restore button, and restore correctly.

Hope this helps.

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