Trying to stop my iPad from spending weeks uploading photos that already exist in iCloud. Tried lots of things but everything is failing.

It’s getting ridiculous. I can’t even erase the iPad to start from scratch. It fails because ‘The connection to iCloud timed out’.

20 minutes later: I managed to erase the iPad using Find My iPad on icloud.com. Now restoring it from a backup of another (working) device.