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This has disturbingly happened to just about every apple device made I've owned, except the older apple computers.

The older macos devices (pre-t2 chip) are always usable. You can usually get old data off them, or they can be re-initialized.

But old ios devices? Had an old ipad, it glitched and it needs an apple id password. but it hadn't been hooked up for years and you can't connect it to wifi without it. old ipod touch? same mess.

It seems if older ios devices get out of sync of current os, it becomes hard to recover them unless you have a mac with macos that matches ios by year.