Q: iPad running really slow after iOS 8 update

Hi ..

Reset the device:

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

If that doesn't help, tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

If that doesn't help, restart your router.

Im the same, resets

don't help

I have the same problem, safari doesn´t charge and the toch screen is slow since install the IOS 8. even the new 8.0.2.

Trying this. Will see if works.

I have tried this, along with resetting my router with no luck. My iPad still has glitches, hesitates and is just really slow. Apple really need to fix this.

Same problems. Very slow Ipad 2 since Ios 8.0. It is really not acceptable.

APPLE: AT LEAST LET US GO BACK TO IOS 7!

Another user's solution ...

keithfrommariettaOct 12, 2014 3:25 PM Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade
Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgradein response to pacoKAS

SOLVED:  IOS 8 Issues on iPad 2:

I just returned home from a visit to the Genius Bar. Like you and many others, when I upgraded my iPad 2 to IOS 8, it became practically unusable. It was VERY slow, lagged whenever trying to to do anything. Lots of screen freezes and apps spontaneously crashing. I was convinced that the processor on the iPad 2 just couldn't handle the new IOS and I went in to see about restoring to IOS 7.

Thankfully, I was hooked up with a very sharp guy at the bar. The problem is not with the OS, it is with it being an *upgraded* OS. He used the analogy of when you had an older Windows computer and how over time (and over upgrades), they just tended to get slower and slower because of all of the garbage that was carried forward in the upgrades. At those times (and if you've ever had a Windows computer, you get this), the only thing that would speed it up would be to wipe the machine and do a fresh install of the current OS and then reload your apps, and the viola, everything would be fast again. Well, it turns out that IOS can suffer the same problems.

THE FIX:  FIRST, be sure you have a current iCloud backup of your device.  Connect your iPad to a computer that has a clean fresh copy of IOS 8 on iTunes (this is best done with a computer other than the one that you sync your device to because you DO NOT want to restore it from a back up just yet). Ideally, if you do this at an Apple store you'll be assured of the right version there and someone to answer any questions you might have along the way. You then hold the power and home button down to hard-reset the device and continue to hold them down until it reboots into recovery mode. You then follow the instructions on the computer to reinstall the OS on the device (which wipes everything from it and then reinstalls a clean copy of it). Once this is done (which only takes about 15 minutes), your device will reboot and ask you to set it up. Answer the questions about language, location, etc. and continue until it asks you to log into your iTunes account. Once you do that, it will ask if you want to either 1) Set it up as a new device, 2) Restore from iCloud, or 3) Restore from iTunes. Choose (2), restore from iCloud. This will ensure that it brings down "clean" copies of all of your apps and preferences rather than the potentially corrupted ones that might reside in your iTunes backup. That's it! It will take a few hours depending on how much data and apps you have, but I am happy to report that my iPad 2 is now running IOS 8 and it's running as fast as it ever did when it was brand new!

To sum it up, this process 1) Wipes your device and the garbage causing your problems, 2) Loads a clean and bug-free version of IOS 8 to your device, and 3) restores your apps and data so that it looks just like it did before the wipe, with the exception that it works now!  :-)

Note also that by following this process you don't have to go through the painful and laborious process of reloading all of your apps, data and/or settings. iCloud takes care of all of that for you.

It is now running much smoother.

I restore and i did everything apple adviser told me, it didn´t fix.

But later i restart my router and safari was fixed it, so just i need a solution for the touch screen now.

I got 2 problems, i have only 1.

I too have this problem.  I even have a problem getting my IPad 3 to start up, it's very slow.  Apple Advisors had me reset, unplug, reset router, all of the above and it still takes a while to start up.  It is also slow when I swipe from page to page, and is slow loaded apps, info, etc.

Anyone with another solution?

II'm happy I have the problem of my iPad turning to junk after the IOS 6 upgrade. It's taught me to no longer trust Apple. I'm the process of replacing my desk top because MS no longer supports my old OS. I was going to switch to an Apple desk top iMac and have everything seemless on desktop, phone and iPad supported by the cloud. Nope, not gonna do it. Going to buy a less expensive MS machine and not worry about keeping things in sync. I'll comoartmentaluze work from personal on my devices and be free to dump technology that lets me down.

It sounds more like "shooting yourself in the foot to spite your face" ... instead of taking steps for troubleshooting and fixing things ... :-) ...

Do you go from Ford to Chevy, when you get a flat tire or your alternator goes out? ... LOL ...

FIX    After ios 8 several problems. Tried deleting apps hard rest nothing worked. So I DISABLED ICLOUD DRIVE. thats it. Safari got faster,apps opened, and screen stopped freezing.  And then I put my iPad on the charger. Which hasent been working great so I check it always after a couple minutes of charging. It went from 12% to 57% in like 10 min or so. I am so glad to have my iPad back. Even though I use the cloud for pages and billtracker app. Just shut it down. Worked for me. Settings > ICloud  disable iCloud drive. Hopefully it works for others, if it does please spread the word. I've looked on forums and found nothing. It seams Apple relies on its users to figure out there software issues. Before fixing the update.

I did but it is still slow. BUT it is good to mention that, after safe mode and recovery process, it didn't ask me for any question, e. g. for language etc.. , it is just does it all restore in the bag-round and all back as was before. Do you think it is good to give another try?