iCloud

Decided to retire my iPad3 (16GB), since the grandkids had managed to fill the memory with their games etc.  Why their games?  Well, when they descend upon us, the first thing that happens is that they nick my iPad and iPhone and disappear with them, coming back to ask if they could have xyz game installed.  Being a softy, I usually let them.

Anyway, went to the Apple Store yesterday and got  64GB iPad Air 2.  Looked at the iPad Pro, but decided it was complete overkill for what it would be used for.

I keep copies of some Numbers spreadsheets and Pages files in iCloud, but when I came to try to access them on the new toy, they got stuck in updating file mode.  Eventually (after an hour!), I switched it off, and looked for solutions on the web.  Did as suggested by Apple Help (basically deleted the files, and reloaded them into iCloud from my iMac using backups).  Didn't work - iCloud refused to upload them, with various errors etc.  Logged out of and back into iCloud on all my devices.  Didn't help.  Tried uploading a new files to iCloud.  Uploads weren't accepted.  Checked that my wifi and ethernet broadband connections were working (they were perfectly OK)

Eventually got fed up and retired for the night.   Today, I sat down, managed to successfully upload a couple of test files, so copied my desired files back into iCloud, and all is now working.

My conclusion is that iCloud itself must have decided to have a temper tantrum just as I was changing one of my devices.  VERY ANNOYING.

Now to wait and see how long it takes on the new iPad for Safari to start grinding to a halt, making me switch wifi off/on to get at some web pages.