Kids locked iPad Air 2. Password locked

[crzdcolombian]

my wife let my nieces use her iPad over the long weekend. I don't know what they did but now the iPad is locked. It says to plug it into a computer to unlock it. I plug it into my computer and my computer tells me to confirm that I trust the iPad. I click trust and then it wants me to do the same on the iPad but the iPad screen stays the same. With the please plug into a computer error.

 

[Conan86]

You won't be able to let the iPad trust your computer if you can't unlock it. You can try connecting it to a PC it has trusted before to see if it lets you backup your iPad without unlocking it.

Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck with restoring your iPad through DFU restore.

 

[flaubert]

Next time your wife wants to loan out an iPad to the kids I would suggest that you do so in Guided Access mode. This is set up under Settings > General >Accessibility > Guided Access, and it locks the kids into a single app while they use the iPad, thus preventing them from doing mischief like changing/setting the lock code.