May I ask if you initiated Encrypted Backup in Options? Reason I ask is that if not, then no passwords or any other private data will be backed up - for example your Apple ID that you had trouble with. I'm truly sorry you had such a miserable experience. Maybe I didn't understand what it has backed up, but my expectation was higher than this. PS: This is the first time the restore function had been used. If you use iMazing restore feature, do you enable the 'Erase target devices' switch? Is this the normal procedure to restore with iMazing? Some of the freed up storage could be related to wiping out all of the Apple logs, failed iMazing restore, etc., but that's just my guess. Prior to erasing the iPhone, the storage size was 34 GB, after restore it shows 26 GB that's eight GB of storage freed up. It took me about an hour or so to set back everything where it was. All the local music files, added to the iPhone from my CDs, had disappeared as well. Once that step had been done and evaluated the restored iPhonequite a few things had not been restored, like the finger prints, downloaded apps, Wallet with CCs, ringtones for family members, some of the settings, etc., disappeared.

Luckily, I remembered to login in on my MBP and get the text message there, but it took me awhile to remember. It's annoying at best and downright nasty, if you cannot get it by different means. The reason being that the 2FA was active and the iPhone, that had not been verified as of yet, could not receive the text with the PIN.

The Apple ID disappeared and initially, the password did not work. That's an overstatement, since quite of few things had to be restored manually. At one point, iMazing app took over and restored the device from backup. And erase it did when the iPhone restarted, it greeted me with the welcome screen just like the first time I've started up this device. That's not my preference, but pretty much had no choice, initiated the restore with the erasing the device option enabled.

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