Ios 7 made my ipad so slow that I can't type anything and it freezes

Try to reset your device:

Device Reset (won't affect settings/data/music/apps/etc)

1. Press and hold (& continue to hold) BOTH the Sleep/Wake button & the Home button.

2. Continue to hold BOTH (ignoring any other messages that may show) until you see the Apple logo on the screen.

3. Release BOTH buttons when you see the Apple logo and allow the device to boot normally.

Reset all settings also worked for me (pretty sure it did).

What I also found is that most of the slowness was happening right after upgrading, while the apps were still downloading and everything was still "rebuilding". Once that all settled down, my iPad 2 is running about as fast as it did with iOS 6, so I'm pleased with the performance.

I think I can reproduce the issue. Its happens after the Wall Paper chnage, for me. So refrain from changing wp

BTW, reset via pressing Home button and power button togather is better then setting-> general. Former remembers your passcode-lock settings. Its slow in general though.. not as smooth..

Same issue since updating to ios 7, ipad2 is slow, apps lag when trying to navigate even the settings are slow when trying to change. Also my iluv wireless keyboard now the delete button doesn't work unless you push the control button at the same time which ***** and didn't happen with ios 6.

some cool new features but performance is horrible. As a company we are all switching to the surface pro.

Hi, I had the same issue in the iPhone 4. I found a solution that might help as well for you. Go to settings/icloud and disable the option for documents & data. I have also seen a couple of other posts in that topic so keep on looking.!

For me, iOS 7 has been an utter fail on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2. My devices are slow. Typing makes me so frustrated I want to throw it against a wall. Animations happen in sloooow moootion. They just slow everything down. White screen of death. Scrolling pages hangs. Safari drags. I'm over it. After suffering through the power issues in iOS 6 this is what they give us?! No. Done. Had enough. I've toyed with moving to Android for months. Using a Samsung Note 10.1. I'm ready now. Android here I come. See ya iOS. :P

Resetting all was the only thing that worked for me. I wonder why Apple has not come out with any solutions to this issue? It's not like only a few users are being affected with the new update. Along with the resetting, I also did the iCloud and turned off the documents and data feature. Now, my iPad 2 is working just fine. Hope everyone else can find a solutin that fits their device.

The same story dude;(

I can't change my wallpaper iPad3 without being stacked in it... I can't scale nor move it goes SOOOO SLOWLY:(

I have tried everything: hard reset, power&home button reset, reset all setting via general menu....

Nothing helps, even while I type this I'm experiencing difficulties.

Apple support please release the bug fix ASAP!!!

I feel absolutely the same way. Android here I come! Truly unbelievable how a company like Apple could even let something like this happen, they have more money then the United States federal government. DO SOMETHING!

Go to settings>icloud>storage and back up>back up

after that preform a restore by going to

general>reset>erase all content and settings

this will delete everything except the enabled stuff on icloud.

You can view whats enabled by going to icloud in settings.

I've worked in IT for over 40 years and it frustrates me everytime I see answers like "wipe your device and start over." For me, that is an unacceptable solution and most often than not, doesn't fix the problem. It just wastes the user's time and energy, not to mention raises a lot of anger. Imagine if we told customers to do that with the servers and mainframes that run Fortune 500 businesses. It's ridiculous.

Respectfully,

Rob

Full reset is what I tried and it appears to have worked on the iPad 2. But shame to Apple, iOS has turned into something worst than what Windows was some years ago when upgrading to newer versions was a nightmare. You always had to do a clean install. And this was with yesteryear's Windows because nowadays the upgrade from Windows 7 to 8 is a painless process.

At least the upgrade to newer versions of OSX are not affected by these kind of problems. Let's just hope Apple can find a solution because it is really a PITA to clean install or reset the settings of your iOS device every year when a new release of iOS comes out.

Full reset worked here, too. A pain trying to reestablish my LAN passwords etc and the look is different, but the lag and jitter seems to be fixed. At last! This has been bugging me ever since iOS7, but I was hoping an stability update would fix it.

Amen to that!

People mention resetting in such a cavalier way. For those her are not previous victims of the reset recommendation - if you haven't suffered the loss of all your iPad built playlists, all your loaded music, all your most used login/passwords, all your PDF's ... Beware the iPad reset concept.

If things go terribly wrong (and the whole things freezes or crashes) you will be asked to restore from backup, or god forbid, restore from sync.

This is fine if your iPad is not your primary device. If it is, your laptop, or the cloud will overwrite whatever you had on your iPad. Your music will vanish and need to be completely redownloaded, all your playlists that you painstakingly built on long airplane rides will be GONE, and if you are not an iOS programmer, good luck figuring out how to backup PDF's you load into iBooks (that you never had on your laptop!)!

I am with the others who are jumping ship to Android.

Apple you should be embarrassed. I have 2 iPhone 5's, two iPads and a Macbrook pro and would have been dedicated Apple user for ever if you cared at all about your end users.

Steve Jobs - where has your wisdom and common sense gone?

Your response is ridiculous LOL.

If one minor software glitch upset you to this point... you'll never last a week on an Android device. Those things are full of software issues, and need more maintenance than a Windows machine does.

But good luck once you switch... enjoy reloading the operating system / resetting the phone on a regular basis to keep things running!