Okay.. Hey y’all! This is gonna be a minor rant, but VERY IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE I KNOW WHO USE PROCREATE AND DIDN'T KNOW THIS! It will save you!
Okay, I was planning to, ofc do some art, but then my iPad started to act funny and just killed itself. What I found out is that procreate doesn’t
Automatically saves your work to iCloud if you have apple. It only saves ON THE DRIVE ONLY; meaning you got to BACKUP YOUR ART so you don’t lose it all whenever your iPad dies or overall gets too old. Sadly this happened to me.. I was able to open my iPad again but had to use a 3rd party software to
Jan 22, 2026 16:58Even get a chance to open it but it’s clear that it was very unstable and found out my IOS got corrupted. I was able to save some art work as much as I can along side some brushes I had over the years, and it did take forever but transferred it all to iCloud.
I’ll admit, I got VERY LUCKY in this
Situation.. it wasn’t looking good in the beginnning and it took the WHOLE DAY yesterday for me to open the iPad since it was forever on recovery mode. I want to WARN my friends or people in general who use procreate to BACKUP your art. I don’t want anyone to experience this because this was one of
Scariest moments of my life as an artist.
Thank you, and hopefully nobody will have to experience this like I did..
