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Today I bought a new iPad Air to replace my older 3rd generation iPad (Which has ios8 installed).
I Started up the new iPad Air and it asked me if I wanted to restore the backup of my old iPad from icloud. all of my iPad backups however are greyed out because the iPad Air is preloaded with iOS 7 and the backup is in ios8.
I started as a new iPad and upgraded the air to ios8, however it seems that the only way to use an iCloud backup is by erasing all contents and settings. This will then put the iPad Air back to ios7.
Does anyone have any ideas how to get round this?

Erasing all content and settings will not downgrade the iOS version, it will remain on iOS 8

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