Talk:Aikatsu! Photo on Stage!!/@comment-27289874-20180220145250/@comment-34763042-20180220192047

I am playing on an iPad Pro 2nd Gen (big screen is way better!) and saw all these occurring, hence I decided to heads up here

And actually, that screen is asking if you want to create an new account or to continue with a pre-existing account. Continuing with a pre-existing account give you your usual options (LINE, Twitter, restore code). Using either option will give you a "Maintainence in Progress" error message though. I didn't touch the new account option though; I knew too well that in situations with potential data loss like this, pressing such options without prior checks is a very, very bad idea!

Also, I doubt it is a server side issue; given that the devs said that the data is safe despite installing the update and that the new update is making the game run much faster (I noticed twice as fast loading times and smoother animations), I suspect that the update does all these by repacking (and not deleting any of) the data but somehow forgetting where the user data is after the repacking (e.g. misnamed filename maybe?), thus triggering the new account screen. So the devs just need to write a new patch that can find this data back within our devices, or at least derive what data to pull from the servers and then overwrite the data on the devices.

App Store states that this update is just a small bugfix though so I may be wrong