iOS5 & iPad 1 - BIG Decrease in performance

Ever since I upgraded to the new iOS has anyone experienced a big drop in performance on their iPad 1? I have been experiencing big delays in response time from when I type until the keys actually process, delays in gestures, browser delays, email is slow, when apps are running they are very slow and barely usable. It's almost like I have dial-up where a little bit will run at a time. I have reinstalled the iOS and still get the same issues. The thing is barley usable which is a shame given all the new features. It's the "best operating system" that I can't use....... I guess I will need to downgrade back to 4. If you are experiencing issues please let me know or respond here so we can let them know more about it.

iPad, iOS 5, New iOS onthe iPad 1 - slow perf

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 8:02 PM

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StevePye

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Posted on Oct 23, 2011 4:42 PM

MAJOR UPDATE: Okay, hopefully this will be of some help to people. I was using iCloud right from the start on my iPad 1, and I had poor performance right out of the gate. Someone, either on this thread or another (I can't remember which, and can't scroll back to check) suggested that turning off iCloud for everything except Documents and Data brought the performance back up to about 95% of what it was before.

Well... Just for kicks and giggles, I thought I'd try turning off iCloud completely, just to see what it would do. Turning all those other items off had done nothing for me, so I turned off Documents and Data as well. As soon as I did, performance returned completely to normal. Literally. Not even a reboot. Ran Angry Birds, and had no problems at all, yet three minutes earlier, Angry Birds crashed continually.

I tested all my other apps that we're having problems: safari, numbers, pages, omni outliner, omni focus, etc. all of them are performing normally now.

So I turned iCloud back on for Documents and Data, and everything is okay now. This is actually back to mostly usable. I'm finding, as I'm typing this, that the occasional mistyped word goes through, but everything else is pretty much okay. I can definitely live with this until Apple can really narrow down the problem and release a fix.

I really hope this solves it for someone else, too!

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armitd

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Jan 9, 2012 6:15 AM in response to Evolvweb

That seems to work for me too. Its just a scary process to go through - the "Set up as new ipad" doesn't replace the apps / data.

Feb 2, 2012 9:44 PM in response to RCKola

Mine works very well using it right now.

Feb 2, 2012 9:47 PM in response to JimHdk

Nothing wrong with my iPad I am using it to write this post.

Feb 5, 2012 5:28 AM in response to andrewlgm

My Ipad 1 is fine.

But thanks for the manifesto, it motivated me to stop email notifications on this thread.

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