I've noticed a very strange "issue" with the scrolling on my iPad 3, It looks a little "wobbly" with quick up and down scrolling on a web page. It's like the left side is slightly lagging behind the right.
Anyone else have this "issue"? I haven't heard anything about this.
I noticed the same issue, though only when scrolling in portrait mode. I don't see the distortion during landscape scrolling. My question would be whether all iPads have this glitch, or only some?
I noticed the same issue, though only when scrolling in portrait mode. I don't see the distortion during landscape scrolling. My question would be whether all iPads have this glitch, or only some?
It's called a "vertical synchronization" anomaly. Too many pixels and not enough GPU power. Get used to it.
Yes, exactly the same here, it's perfect in landscape. This can't affect many iPads as I'm sure we would of heard about it. I'm taking mine back to see what Apple says about the "issue".
Why get used to anything?
Mine doesn't do this.
Are you using safari or another browser?
My thoughts exactly, I've spoken to a few new owners and no one has this issue. Yes I'm using Safari but I can see in other apps like Pages when fast scrolling text etc as well.
I'll take it back this week. Thanks.
I noticed it on an iPad at the Apple Store. I was scrolling through photos horizontally in landscape mode when I noticed the vertical edges of the photos became slightly tilted. It is as if the top of the photo could not catch up with the bottom. In Portrait mode, when swiping through app pages, icons seemed to stretch in when moving in one direction, and compress in the other.
I did not try another iPad and therefore cannot say if it is a common issue. iPad 2 does not have this issue.
My sister could see it (barely) after I told her. My niece couldn't. Therfore It is possible that some people are more sensitive to this phenomenon than others, just like some people can see the "rainbow effect" on DLP projectors whereas others cannot.
I'll check it out on another ipad when I have a chance to go to the Apple Store again.
It's funny you should mention the DLP rainbow effect issue, I actually sell projectors for a living so I'm very familar with this effect which does effect me fairly badly. I guess it may just be my eyes but I'd like to look at another iPad just to see.
It would be good to see how you get on with other iPads too.
Hi Sbojeevets,
Glad i've found someone else experiencing this, i'm having exactly the same problem on my iPad 3. I was going to give it a couple of weeks (seeing as everywhere is out of stock anyway!) then take mine back to Apple for them to have a look.
Please let us know how you get on.
It's not a glitch, there are 3.1 million pixels to update and a gpu running to maintain 10 hours battery life. You can't have everything without sacrificing something. Quite normal...
Sure, I can live with it and it's by no means the end of the world. Just interested to know if it's a normal occurrence as it's a newly purchased item and there doesn't seem to be many references to it on the web. Cheers though Parrallex33
Exactly, I'm the same. I just wanted to make sure this was normal as I hadn't seem it mentioned in any reviews. I have also got yellowing at the top of the screen when in portrait. I'm well aware of the glues issues and it has improved so I'm going to give it a few days, if it doesn't get better ill get it swapped.
I just noticed that I can see my iPhone 4 doing the same thing. I never noticed it until I saw it on the new iPad.
I started playing PC games back in the '90's. Actually, I wrote some stupid games on the Tandy 64 in the '80's, but let's not go there. On PC games, you fight this battle of vertical synchonization vs. frame rates. You either have high frame rates or good vertical sync, but not both. I think the high pixel count and prominence of straight edges allows us to see an effect that resembles Vsync both off and on. It's a mix. You either have stuttering frames or tearing frames. To be perfectly honest, I think we're seeing a perfect blending of the two. I'll check iPads at the Apple store, but I bet it's normal.
We need to be happy with this cutting edge technology and move on. It's hardware and software limitations, not hardware defects.
Quick update guys...
I managed to check out on of the iPads on display at my local reseller. I got the same results there so it's 'case closed' I guess.
Well, there we have it. It's normal.
We either had a.) page tearing, b.) frame stuttering, or c.) what we got. I'm happy with what we got. I don't see it in games and I don't read while scrolling, so who cares.
Somewhere there are Apple engineers who had to balance it all: frame rates versus vsync. I think they did a good job of dealing with what they were given. Now, if we could just get the iOS programmers up to the same level.
Correction to my own post ... I confirm that it can happen on the iPad 2 also. However, it happens in fewer situations, and when it happens it is less obvious ... Blurriness during fast scrolling seems to have masked it to a degree also, making it even less visible. I cannot recall if there is blurriness during fast scrolling on the iPad 3.
"Wobbly" page when scrolling in safari with iPad 3
