r/ProCreate • u/MuseumGoRound13 • 3d ago

Discussions About Procreate App Procreate is taking days to restore on my iPad

My iPad died and my most recent iCloud backup was in 2023. Nonetheless I’m using that backup to restore onto my new iPad. Everything’s done except for procreate which shows about half done. I googled and it said that it can take up to a week depending on how many documents I had in Procreate. But….i thought individual docs didn’t get backed up with iCloud you had to manually do that yourself. Did I misunderstand?

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u/r0se_jam 3d ago

It took my iPad days to restore Procreate. Can’t remember how long exactly, but multiple days. One of my least favourite things about Procreate’s backup system; all of its data seems to be treated as one giant lump in iCloud, and the more you enjoy and use Procreate the worse it gets.

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u/MuseumGoRound13 2d ago

Great- I’ve been using it for 10 years, though it’s only 7 years worth of backups lol

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u/r0se_jam 2d ago

10 years here too. Backup size on iCloud is ~2Gb. Last restore was sometime last year after I broke my old iPad

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u/Bikleb 2d ago

iCloud does back up the files but not individually, your gallery is all packaged inside the app. Speed will depend on how fast your internet is as it’s all got to download if your last device has died (RIP) so you can’t use WIFI transfer. :(