Ipad 1 slows down after installing IOS 5

I just want to throw my hat into the ring for this problem. Ever since upgrading to its 5.0.1, my iPad1 has run like absolute garbage. I basically can't have any more than 1 tab open or else safari will certainly crash. I've looked through the diagnostics, and I have tons and tons of low memory crashes. I've also tried restoring, and disabling the cloud and anything else directly associated with ios5. It took away SOME of the keyboard lag, but the device is still almost unusably slow. A touch screen isn't a touch screen if there's lag. Know what it is? USELESS.

Let's face it people, this is the windows vista of apple. The only difference being that because of that absolutely boneheaded system of 'blobs', you can't downgrade. The moral of the story? Do NOT update the firmware on any apple device.

I await ios 5.1 because I simply can't fathom it being any worse than this.

This ***** , even the 4s is slow .APPLE you died once and your end is close because of your stupidness .

Same thing here.

I restored the ipad as new, I killed all backgrond apps. I use an app named "memory pro" wich seems to temporariy fix the speed problem, but my ipad is not what I expected and not what it was...

Apple, please At least tell me you are working on that !

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Before I get to my point to add here, I want to mention the "stupidness" of your comment. No offense, but calling someone (or in this case, an entire company as a single entity) stupid seems to me to just throw it at you, since "stupidness" is not a word. Apple is not going to fall anytime soon, (Good thing too... that would cause me a lot of loss on the stock market) and while Apple does have some stupidity,(the correct word) I have yet to find a company without it. Nobody, and no group of people either, is perfect.

Now, my point. Apple optimized iOS 5 for the devices to run it, which are especially the iPhone 4S but also for the iPad 2, since it is the newest iPad as of the day iOS 5 was released. (Also the iPod Touch to some degree, but not as much as the devices with the A5 Chip) Apple is known for compatibility with older devices, so iOS 5 works on iPhones back to the 3G-S and the original iPad. But an iPhone 3G-S will be much slower on iOS 5 than the 4S, or even the 4. This is because the actual iPhone hardware itself for the 3G-S was initially designed to work with iPhone OS 3, which they shipped with when they were new.

My point through all that is simply that with every update, older devices run slower. I am an Apple Developer for iOS and Safari, and I noticed significant speed and functionality losses when I started the iOS 5 beta. But it got way better by the time it was publically released, so I thought of it as faster rather than slower. But the point remains: the iPad was designed specifically for iPhone OS 3, which was 3.2 at the time I believe. Apple did their best to make it work with future releases, but of course they can't do it perfectly because they had no idea most of what would be added in the future to the software. Same with the iPad 2 even, which launched with iOS 4.2 initially. In fact, the only device made specifically to run iOS 5 was the iPhone 4S, until the next iPad is released at least. When the next iPad is released, Apple will undoubtedly update iOS on a minor note to work with it, since it will need to be tweaked to run with the next iPad. In theory, even when attempting to maximize the compatibility with the 4S, it could lose speed and functionality. (Although that won't be noticable probably until several major releases later)

My WiFi iPad, 64 GB, runs iOS 5.1 developer beta. Since I'm under a pre-release confidentiality contract with Apple like all developers are, I cannot tell you much about the release. But yes, it is faster (at least for me) than 5.0.1 was. So look forward to that for some added speed. Unfortunately, there is nothing really you can do but buy a new iPad, which you shouldn't do in my opinion until the next one comes out since it is expected soon this Spring if Apple stays on their usual schedule and releases it in their Keynote Address they have scheduled for sometime in March.

As a poster before you said, calling iOS 5.0.1 the "Windows Vista of Apple", I point out that nothing can be as bad as the laughing stock that is the tragedy called Windows Vista.

After deleting a few apps and disabling Find My Friends... I managed to see quite a performance bump. My guess, having 2gb + free gives the system room to operate. For the first time I noticed an app "cleaning..." so I knew the system needed a bit more help freeing up space.

I have not noticed any performance issues with my iPad1 after installing iOS5.0.1. I use iCloud, Safari/Dolphin for browsing, notification center is on. It works like a charm. I do notice some graphics intense games lag on occasion and the battery drain increases when iCloud is enabled.

Since updating I have had constant crashes. I half expected this as it was a new system but not to this extent. I have always liked Apple because of the lack of crashes but this is worse then anything I have seen before and makes the usage of my iPad limited. The fact that fixes haven't been quickly coming makes me think that either Apple doesn't care about customers who bought their original iPad and made it successful or they only developed this IOS for newer iPads and knew it would be buggy and never warned us. Either way an unacceptable treatment of a loyal customer.

Apple, if a wanted a device that constantly crashes, i would have bought an Android. Let me go back to IOS 4.3

I have an iPad 2 and have experienced frequent crashes in Mail and Safari since updating to iOS5. This problem is not specific to the iPad 1.

As the result of months of web surfing and testing, I could narrow down the issue at is causing performance on all our original iPads! One would say to turn all the iCloud features off, but I have found that there are major performance bugs in contacts and calendars! Turn them off in the iCloud part if the settings. This, alone with disabling spotlight search results in no keyboard lag and no "checkerboard effect" in safari whe pages won't load fast enough! I hope this helps everyone as it did to me!

Thank you for your post, as well as for the information you could safely share about iOS 5.1.

I can only add the same..l slow, unresponsive and regular crashes! Not my favourite experience at the moment!

I had the same problem, turning off icloud and multitouch seemed to fix it.

Cheers,

James

Fix for Slow adressbar and search Field in Safari:

Turn Off "hide bookmarks Bar" in Settings/Safari. Otherwise it is always syncing you bookmarks with icloud when it reveals the bookmarks bar, and that is taking a few seconds (too long)