Q: iOS 8 has ruined my iPad 2.    HELP

Try some basic troubleshooting:

(A) Try reset iPad

Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears

(B) Try reset all settings

Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings

(C) Setup as new (data will be lost if you do not have backup)

Settings>General>Reset>Erase all content and settings

All said Apple does us no favours ... I wish I had my iPad 2 on 7 ...  it's really sluggish now . Battery seems ok.

However, my biggest gripe is with my iPhone 5c , ruined by os8 .... Battery destroyed .... Super slow.  thanks Apple . I spent >£500 for TWO IPhone 5c (my wife and I)about 1 ago and already supper sluggish , useless battery.

If your other suggestions don't work the following may help you ... and that's a reset to factory default setup ...

Back up and Restore your iOS Device with iCloud or iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

iTunes: About iOS Backups

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946

Use iTunes to Restore your iOS Device to Factory Settings

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

People have been getting good results from it ...

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.

Hi ... similar issues ... OS8 was just horrible for the old tech (in my case iPad 2) ... the OS DESTROYED my tablet .... many posters have said connect to iTunes and give a fresh install and probably update to 8.1 should fix.

Yes, and before you update it, you should reset your device to its factory default condition (using iTunes). Be sure to do your backup, and understand what the backup saves and what it doesn't save. Also turn off your anti-virus software on your computer for this operation. It's important to do a clean system install for the update!

IOS 8 is absolutely dreadful. I have not seen any improvement with the upgrade to 8.1. MMy ipad is my iPad is very unpleasant to use now, to the point where I want to replace it, which is probably what Apple had in mind when they rolled this out.

Same issues here. No hope. We're replacing iPad mini with Galaxy. Hate to say it but the frustration with apple is no longer worth it.

That won't fix it. Nothing will. Apple has no real answer to help other than buying a new iPad.

I have a new MiniRetina   running 7, thank you now plan putting that rubbish battery destroyer 8 on .

meant NOT planning to put 8 on

My solution is to never buy another Apple product again.  If this is how they treat their customers since Steve Jobs died, I don't want anything to do with Apple.  My iPad2 is almost useless since updating to IOS 8.   What a **** hassle over something that should have never happened to begin with.  I'm going Android. At least  I'll have flash.

I did this too. I see a significant improvement in my iPad 2. I gained about 3 GB of space also.

Sammy1208 wrote:

 

My solution is to never buy another Apple product again.  If this is how they treat their customers since Steve Jobs died, I don't want anything to do with Apple.  My iPad2 is almost useless since updating to IOS 8.   What a **** hassle over something that should have never happened to begin with.  I'm going Android. At least  I'll have flash.

OK.  Goodbye.

Sensat wrote:

 

Same issues here. No hope. We're replacing iPad mini with Galaxy. Hate to say it but the frustration with apple is no longer worth it.

OK.  Goodbye.