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After 18 hours of recovering data, more accurately called cloning, I gave up on the darn thing ever finishing. As far as I can tell all of the settings and all of the apps have loaded correctly, and did so in the first few minutes of the process. As for the data, it looks like most of it also loaded, so not sure what it was stuck on, if anything. Probably just more crappy programming by Apple. At any rate, I stopped the recovery, then did a manual backup. I’m pretty sure everything important loaded and it was likely just held up by data for some app, probably one I rarely use. Everything looks fine, so no big deal I guess.
I have noticed that my 5G WiFi connection only registers about half the download speed that my iPhone XR and Pro 9.7 do. They both register about 220 Mbips but the mini 5 only about 105 Mbips. I think someone else posted a few months ago about a similar issue. Perhaps Apple got cheap on the WiFi radio. I’m a little annoyed at the half speed, but 105 Mbips is still pretty good.
The iCloud speed seems rather slow, but I guess that might have more to do with so many people being at home and pushing the servers pretty hard.
I still have no clue where all those long dead emails were stored, nor why they were stored rather than deleted, nor why they kept reappearing during the cloning. Extremely annoying, but then Apple Mail has always been rather crappy.
Other than those relatively minor issues, I’m happy with the iPad mini 5. Definitely a very nice upgrade to the four year old iPad Pro 9.7.
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