u/Brominum

Hi, I saw some posts last week but I wasn't at home to try any of them out immediately on my iPad 8th gen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/1vlgi4c/managed_to_downgrade_ipad_8th_to_ios_18/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/1vl0jjw/apple_actually_released_18710_for_the_ipad_8/?sort=new

I've downloaded iPad_10.2_2020_18.7.10_22H373_Restore.ipsw but every time I try to restore it either via iTunes or Apple Devices app across two separate computers, I get this error: The iPad "iPad" could not be restored. an unknown error occurred. (3194)

I searched plenty to try and find anything to resolve this but all the proposed fixes have not addressed it yet. It's not the hosts file, I can ping gs.apple.com just fine, I've tried on two different PCs now, etc. I disabled Find My before putting the device into recovery mode.