I had read somewhere that continuously rewriting data on an SSD will wear out the number of write cycles it has and cause it to fail. I reset my new iPad Air so I could restore it from an iCloud backup and get access to my Google Authenticator, but I couldn’t, so I reset it again and set it back up as new. Cleared out around 50GB of storage and I feel like that might have taken a toll on the device.
Do factory resets wear out the storage chips on Apple devices?
