iOs 7 on iPad 3

thanks zczachor, I had been resisting trying Solution #3 but I went ahead and did that. My iPad is much more responsive now and is almost as IOS 6 was in far as speed. I also some how recovered almost 2 gig of storage space doing that. Now if I could just rid of the animations, all the zooming when the apps open makes me nauseous.

You are welcome. I'm happy that my solution help.

I would also love to turn off those animations but what can You do.

At least iPad is working again. :)

Given that iOS7 has caused so many problems to so many peoples' iPads what would the situation be if you had Applecare for your iPad and after downloading iOS7 your iPad became next to useless?

Ios7 on Ipad is the "windows vista" of Apple.It needs hardware requirements UNACCEPTABLE.
On ipad3 I went from riding a horse to ride a mule.
To type in a phrase it takes a century.
Evernote is unusable.

Same problems here (iPad 3 64GB wifi). Finding slow touch screen response makes games unplayable. Tried "reset all settings" but not helped :-s

Going to log a defect with Apple feedback. Roll on 7.0.2!

Observation: If you sign out of your apple id, then restart your iPad, you can then open the app store, which loads reasonably quickly. Tap an app you want to download and enter your apple id and everything seems fine.... until you close the app store or switch to a different app.

What's going on is anyone's guess.

That said, I've noticed that on an identical iPad 3 logged into an appleid with only a modest number of apps associated with it has fewer issues. I suspect, that iOS 7 tries to cache your appstore history locally, to reduce server-side activity, make the purchase tab more responsive. The more apps you own, the more data would be cached, resulting in more background downloads, more battery consumption, other data expanding. I also suspect that while this theoretical cache is incomplete the Appstore might well stall. Am I sure about this theory? No. But it would explain some of the appstore issues.

Am I suggesting you abandon your current appleid? No. Does the theory help us? Not really, but it might be worth further investigation.

Another unrelated iOS 7 issue: I've also found that attachments automatically download when I open an email. In iOS 6 I had to tap to download. Yet another annoyiong change. Why isn't there an option to enable/disable automatic attachment downloads?

If someone at Apple is reading this (unlikely) then, please, for the love of all that is holy (or at least Apple's market share), give us back the option to downgrade to 6.1.3, at least until these problems are ironed out.

I was as ****** off as anyone after i downloaded, but I did both resets (settings and the hard one) and turned off paralax or whatever the **** it's called, and saw immediate results. My battery seems to be improving significantly.

I've already tried disabling the parallax effect (Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion: On). I agree that it does help improve battery usage a bit, as does disabling automatic updates, locking down locations services and notifications. However, battery usage is still considerably worse than under 6.1.3. Charge times are longer.

The app store doesn't work properly for me (often taking 30+ minutes to open, frequently disconnecting, downloads stalling etc). Email attachments automatically download the moment I open an IMAP email whether or not I want them too (unlike in iOS 6.1.3) - bad for roaming, data usages, SSD space and security. The UI is generally less fluid. Scrolling is more jumpy.

And iOS 7 seems to be fill my iPad 3's SSD, starting out at 747.6Mb of "other" data the moment you exit the initial Getting Started wizard, with no restore from backup. This then increases at a rate of 0.1Mb every 2 minutes irrespective of whether the iPad is in standby or not. I have no idea what it's doing. iOS 6.1.3 didn't do this.

Note: None of the above relates to how iOS 7 looks. It's all nuts and bolt "does it work?" stuff. I'll worry about the UI when I'm actually able to use it without tearing my hair out. Updates are supposed to impove the user experience. iOS 7 has done the complete opposite here. Quite why Apple removed the option to downgrade to 6.1.3 while iOS 7 has so many issues is beyond me. It makes no sense and only serves to annoy previously contented customers.

Just tried iOS 7 on iPad 2 today, no noticable lagging with transition and rotation whatsoever. Even when I had a bunch of apps open. My iPad 3 is still slow, with all the apps closed. Now that's probably two different versions of iOS, one regular and retina...Still I'm wondering how Apple could possibly release it ignoring such apperent flaws, after several public betas. If new games can run on 8 year old consoles, I see no reason why one year old device can't handle iOS7. Please Apple, give us a stable release!!!

You are not alone. Updating my ipad3/4 to iOS7 has made it useless. Takes 3-5 min to download a web page if I'm lucky and it doesn't timeout. Absolutely hopeless and useless OS unless Apple has a fix for it. Apps are too slow, typing etc. just about everything is too slow. Didn't expect such a lousy product from Apple.

Do they know it now? If they haven't then ask them to have a peek at this community page. If they still say they haven't heard any of these problems then I'm convinced that they just don't want us to use apple products anymore.

SergZak wrote:

Settings>General>Reset>Reset all settings. This should improve the typing responsiveness.

That followed by a device reset (hold home and sleep/wake buttins until the device restarts) might actually help with the battery drain too. I have found that following every iOS update, that performing a "Reset Network Settings" followed by the distinct device restart (not just the one the reset does) seems to resolve the temporary "fast battery drain" which seems to be caused by some corruption in the settings during the update.

I did a reset all settings but problems remained. Then I did a factory default and chose set up as a new iPad and went ahead and put in my Apple ID and downloaded all my apps manually. Then I applied most of the recommended settings. Then I did a hard reset. This fixed most errors.

The typing lag is greatly improved but still not fixed.

The wifi still cannot maintain a signal farther than 10 feet, both home and at school.

The UI graphics are a little sloppy and seem to "stutter" every now and then.

Battery drain is not as bad but still present. The back no longer heats up.

I've also been hard restarting every now and then when the UI gets too laggy and that seems to fix it up again for another few hours of use.

Not a great solution, but it's what worked best for me.

Sorry, correction, I used, settings >general>reset>erase all content and settings, then set up as new iPad. I did this because reset all settings did not work.

I just did a hard reset and the keyboard and UI lag are improved again. It seems to "need" a hard reset every 24 hours or so.

Had no problems under 6.1.3

I have read all horror stories from release until yesterday but still decided to do the update. I do not seem to be experiencing all these nightmare, esp the keyboard lagging which is for me the worst experience here. Typing does not lag at all.

I would share what I did if anyone would like to do the same:

1. I deleted apps which I do not use and made sure all apps left are updated. Apps would still support iOS 6 anyway and would be ready for iOS 7 instantly.

2. I updated from iTunes which would download the whole thing (1.3 GB) and not the 900MB delta update if on the iPad 3. It seems to be the closest thing to clean installing and restoring from backup, and right doing it while updating.

3. I crossed my fingers.

Holla, iPad 3 is still the breeze that it was in iOS 6!