I have an iPad with iOS 18 and a forgotten password, which I can get into recovery mode or boot normally, but when doing the latter refuses to connect to WLAN, so an erase started from “Find my” doesn’t work (even when I plug my iPhone into its USB port, enable tethering, etc). I also have neither a Macintosh nor a Windows machine.
Unfortunately, there’s no IPSW for the new 18.7.7 release (yet?), so what I can read from the manpage doesn’t help here.
But there’s still unsigned IPSW files from the OS release it runs available, and the device connects to a GNU/Linux laptop (in recovery mode), but I absolutely do not want to downgrade to iOS 26 if that can be avoided.
Can I use this to either just erase the data and keep the OS as-is, or to erase the data but reinstall the same old iOS 18 that currently is installed (and then once it’s set up again upgrade to 18.7.7)?
The device is logged into an iCloud account whose password is known and which is active on two iPhones, and to which it is backed up; I honestly cannot understand why this is not sufficient to recover it… so you’re my hope. (I’m not well-versed in the Apple ecosystem, I’m a BSD/Unix/Linux person.)
I have an iPad with iOS 18 and a forgotten password, which I can get into recovery mode or boot normally, but when doing the latter refuses to connect to WLAN, so an erase started from “Find my” doesn’t work (even when I plug my iPhone into its USB port, enable tethering, etc). I also have neither a Macintosh nor a Windows machine.
Unfortunately, there’s no IPSW for the new 18.7.7 release (yet?), so what I can read from the manpage doesn’t help here.
But there’s still unsigned IPSW files from the OS release it runs available, and the device connects to a GNU/Linux laptop (in recovery mode), but I absolutely do not want to downgrade to iOS 26 if that can be avoided.
Can I use this to either just erase the data and keep the OS as-is, or to erase the data but reinstall the same old iOS 18 that currently is installed (and then once it’s set up again upgrade to 18.7.7)?
The device is logged into an iCloud account whose password is known and which is active on two iPhones, and to which it is backed up; I honestly cannot understand why this is not sufficient to recover it… so you’re my hope. (I’m not well-versed in the Apple ecosystem, I’m a BSD/Unix/Linux person.)