Ipad 1 slows down after installing IOS 5

I have same problem as everyone else, on iPad 1 and also on iPhone 3GS. Need an update to help with these speed issues!

Me too, I am completely disappointed with Apple. After upgrading to IOS 5, my iPad became unusable!!!

My experience with a gen 1 3G iPad. I waited until yesterday to update from 4.2.1 to 5.0.1. I wanted to first see how this thread ended up. I looked at a few comments and felt any slowdown was more an issue with the updating process rather than iOS 5. All I wanted was tabbed browsing in Safari so waiting was no big deal.

What I did was restored the iPad as a new iPad. I then turned off all Notifications (see gs_rivera) and deleted my iCloud account. Resynced fresh, not from a backup. Yes, this is a pita way to have to do an update but a once a year restore is not a bad idea.

My results are excellent. The only place I see any slowdown is in the Settings app. Its takes a bit longer to load. Some aspects of the iPad are a bit quicker. Every app I've used, about 75 plus all of Apple's, are excellent.

While I know its not a fun way to do an update, if you want your iPad back to what it was like, I would really recommend you take this approach. Every thread I've read both on Apple's boards and thru Googling indicate doing various approaches to a restore brings the gen 1 iPad back to its former self.

I also followed rick1972's instructions and my ipad is like new again. The only passwords I had to enter were for WiFi. Very painless.

Yep rick1972 has the fix...just did it and I have my glorious iPad back...didn't lose any data just had to re enter my wifi password.

Thanks Rick!

i have the same problem. apple better fix it because im not coughing up another $500 for the ipad 2.

Same here my iPad 1 is useless....so slow and crashes all the time....funny thing I can't use iTunes store on the iPad to buy more stuff from apple since it keeps crashing... Ironic ah...

As far as I can tell, this seems to be the fixes that has worked for most:

• Update to iOS 5.0.1
• Reset the device (you loose some settings, but apps will still be installed) as advised by rick1972:

Here is what he did to my iPad 1 to make it usable again. He went to settings /general/reset/restore all settings and did a resore as new iPad. It didn't destroy any data, I just had to redo my network passwords and a couple of other minor app settings here and there.

When the iPad has restarted after the reset described above, do not use a backup from iCloud or iTunes, but install "as new". The apps will be there, but some settings (WLAN, GameCenter, etc) will need to configured again.

My iPad was unusable, but after the update and reset I can use it again.

Shouting at Apple won't help much in this thread, since this is a user community. Use http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html to voice your thoughts to Apple.

Awesome buddy...seems to work great thanks :)

true! it's becoming VERT VERY slow, everyting is slow, Boot up slow, APP slow, WIFI slow,...

eapecially when using handwriting input (I'm using traditional chinese),

1 word keep you wait 3~5 seconds to identified !!!

IOS 5.01 ***** !!***** !!***** !!***** !!***** !!***** !!***** !!

Apple SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO UPGRADE THEIR IPAD1 to IOS5 !

GIVE ME BACK MY IOS 4.35 APPLE !

JOBS GONE , everything goes wrong then?

HELP Me!! I'm going to get crazy !!!

I have the same slowness issue with email. The speed is simply unacceptable now. I often have to force quit Mail to "kick it back on". I wonder if I could "go back" to OS4 without losing anything?

Other and using iCloud to sync my Mac and my iPhone (all upgraded), all I really do is email and surf a little. Could I still use iCloud if I dropped back to OS4 on the iPad?

Is upgrading iPad 1 a quiet ploy to force users to buy an newer iPad 2 ?

Just registering as one more person seeing these issues.

On my iPad 1 and iPhone 3GS after the iOS5 upgrade it seems like everything is slower and all apps crash eventually, some within a few seconds of starting up, some will run for a while. I've tried restarting and it seems to work for a few minutes, but then things crash.

I havent read any of the posts completely, but all my apps are crashing now since updating to ios 5.0.1 and giving me low memory error usage messages. I've wiped almost everything off, I have 14 GB of freaking memory left and your telling me I have memory issues. ***?

Same problem here. Since installing iSO5 and the cloud my iPad is terribly slow and crashing 20 times a day @ least. I don't know what to do anymore...

I have the same problem since iOS5. I have the iPad zurückggesetztto factory defaults and configured as a new iPad. This also brought no improvement. The Apple phone support bate me to be patient. Whatelse can I do?