air 2 stuck

Well my iPad 1st generation finally gave up being able to keep a charge in the battery, and with it being so outdated to update any more apps or add new ones a new iPAD is in order. I like the size of it so my guess is an iPAD Air ver would work nicely. Any owner opinions on the iPAD Air 2 as a...

I updated my old iPad to 9.1 then did a new backup to the Cloud. The Air 2 didn't recognize the old one when I tried to restore the backup to the new device so I switched to "new iPad." Now it is stuck at "updating iCloud settings." How can I get past this screen or reset and start over...