"Wobbly" page when scrolling in safari with iPad 3

Hello everyone,

I too am having wobbly web pages when scrolling in portrait mode. At first I thought it might be a screen refresh problem that was confined to one side of the screen (right side for me). So I conducted some tests. The wobble is there in my book mark list as well which is set on the left side of the screen, but confined to the right side of the view pane, so that test alone blew my theory out of the water. Next test was to flip the tablet 180 degrees and again test for wobble in portrait mode, the wobble was still there on the web page as well as the bookmark bar, and the lag was again confined to the right side of the screen on the web and the bookmarks bar. The final two tests was checking for wobble in landscape mode 90 degrees left/right turn from portrait, the wobble was gone on the web page and bookmark list. BTW the wobble is also present in the Facebook app as well. So a render display bug only in portrait mode?

PS. After the tests I feel better knowing that my display is probably not broken and that it is a software bug. However, I am not a software engineer either, so take my statment as an opnion/hunch

iPad Gen 3 White 32GB WiFi only

Duncan, don't wait go to another store before you wait too long to return/exchange.

Again, it's not a bug. It's a compromise between graphics tearing and frame lag. You will hear people say their's doesn't do it because, for whatever reason, they don't notice it. Get over it and enjoy your iPad or go get an iPad 2 with cruddy resolution.

i've noticed the same thing. I went to the Apple Store this afternoon and tried two iPad 3 demo models and the exact problem showed up on both devices as I am experiencing on mine. I showed one of the Apple sales people and, at first, he seemed to think I was delusional. It only took him a moinute or two, however, to see the problem once I pointed it out to him. Don't waste your time and patience exchanging. It won't make a difference.

I noticed this and was bothered. Figured it might be that the iPad3 struggling with updating the graphics, but was concerned that it might have been an issue with my iPad3 display.

Anyway, went back to my iPad1 to double check, and it does the same.

I think something might have changed in iOS 5.1 because I have never noticed it on my original iPad before. The scrolling does seem more jittery than previously.

I've noticed the same thing and I have to say that I am not so happy about it!

I converted from Android because I liked the fact that my iPad 2 and my iPhone 4 are "silky smooth" and nothing like choppy Android.

So, I was first in line for iPad 3 and don't get me wrong - display is wonderful but I don't want to accept that wobbly page while scrolling is "the new normal" as someone here wrote!

I am sincerely hope that is gonna be fixed by next iOS update as I refuse to belive that Apple say: "you wanted retina display? Fine, but this is the cost of it"

Hey sbojeevets,

good spot. In computers where the screen's refresh rate of the GPU is higher than the refresh rate of the display and causes misalignment of the display, the situation is known as "tearing" and this is a hardware limitation probably.

In computers, this issue can probably be alleviated with tweaks on the GPU settings (so it goes to say its firmware & driver) to aligns the frequency the GPU communicates with the screen to prevent misalignment which results in tearing as it is not uncommon that GPUs may be faster than the displays. Otherwise known as vertical sync etc.

I'm not sure if Apple has thought of this point but chances are that this can be fixed with firmware side tweaks. Apple probably won't let us toggle this if they were to implement such a tweak like vsync, they'll put it on as a default but I think this would be a good bonus. The downsides to vsync would be "control lag". It may/may not happen in the case where the device is an iPad.

But it will SERIOUSLY be too much of being an opportunist if Apple were to say this wasn't a possible fix and tell its customers , "buy our new iPad 4. We read you."

I got the new iPad to help with my vision problems. This wobbly scrolling does not help. I hope it is something that can be fixed. Glad to know that scrolling in landscape avoids the problem.