iOs 7 on iPad 3

iPad 3 16gb Wifi only

My wife and I upgraded our iPhone 5's (not 5s) to iOS7 and they work better than ever. So I upgraded our iPad 3 which had the latest iOS6 and had been working perfectly.

1. Intermittent mail problems. Small attachments would appear and you could tap to download but larger attachments (in my limited tests, over 50k) would start to auto download (no choice to tap) but then stop completely. Any attempts to redownload them got a dialog stating the attachment could not be downloaded at this time. Repeated attempts got the same, but trying a smaller attachment worked normally.

2. Battery drain - 100% to 18% in four hours with most of the time on standby. Took one hour so far to get back to 36% -- that's quite a bit slower than before. Still charging so I'll be interestede to see what happens based on other reports on this thread. Using stock charger plugged into wall.

3. My pre-existing wallpaper (custom photograph) appears way off center. Attempts to install a new custom wallpaper have been problematic and research shows no one agrees on how to do it. Using Apple-supplied ABSTRACT wallpapers works fine.

4. Updated version of Goodreader worked great until I put iPad in standby. When I woke up the iPad, Goodreader crashed and froze the screen with 50 errors. After a few minutes I was able to finally email the crash report but couldn't get the screen to rotate from horizontal to vertical until I did a full reboot.

5. Keyboard seems slightly laggy but I don't know if I'm simply brainwashed by all the comments above stating the keyboard is slow. The keyboard is slower than my iPhone 5.

A few days ago I went to the Barton Creek Apple store in Austin and asked if they had any iPads with iOS7 on it. None. They said someone was upgrading them as we spoke but an hour later we still couldn't find any in the store. They may have installed them by now so I look forward to trying them there to see what they did to fix (or not fix) these problems.

WORKING SOLUTION ON iOS 7 POOR PERFORMANCE OVERALL PROBLEM

Hello.

That's my final solution witch works for all my iPads and iPhones and finally is so smooth and fast on iOS 6 before.

Hope that You will all have same results.

Follow those steps:

1. Connect Your decide to PC/Mac and open iTunes

2. Go to Your device settings

3. Change Your backup device from iCloud to iTunes backup on hard drive

4. Make a backup copy of Your device

5. Turn off FindMy app in device settings (Settings -> iCloud)

6. Click on RESTORE in iTunes and restore device to original state.

7. Now You can restore Your device from iTunes Backup.

This already should make Your iPads and IPhones working fast and smooth, but if You still see lagging then do this step:

8. Go to Settings -> Accesibility -> Reduce movement and turn it ON

The difference of doing it with iTunes is that full backup copy is created and full iOS 7 installation is downloaded.

Update version isn't full and I think that could be reason of all our problems.

Enjoy!

Just updated to 7.0.2

Seems to be much snappier compared to 7.0 - still a lag selecting wallpapers but maybe half the time previously. Rotating landscape to portrait seems smoother, typing lag seems minimal - anyone else got any feedback?

Hi everyone,

I updated to 7.0.2 and the same problems continues. Lag in animations, selecting wallpapers, in web scroll, etc.

My model is iPad 3 Retina 64GB 3G.

7.0.2 seems exactly the same to me (iPad3 64GB wifi, updated to 7.0.2 via iTunes)

I think if there were any performance or stability improvements in 7.0.2, they'd have been mentioned in the release notes.

Do any of these resets, device wipes, etc increase battery life?

My iPad3, while a bit slower is nothing I can't tolerate (although it would certainly be nice for it to be resolved and back to iOS6 standards) but the battery is awful. I can surf on WiFi for 20 minutes and lose 7% of the battery rather quickly

The battery is even worse on my iPhone 4S, even under very light to moderate use I need a full recharge after 6-7 hours

After reading about everybody's bad experiences with this I have decided to keep using IOS 6 until Apple fixes the problem.

zczachor wrote:

8. Go to Settings -> Accesibility -> Reduce movement and turn it ON

That improved performance on my iPad 3 but keyboard is still lagging a bit.

I have the exact same problem and cannot charge my device due to the boot loop I am in. And this is all happening after the update to iOS 7

andixy wrote:

zczachor wrote:

8. Go to Settings -> Accesibility -> Reduce movement and turn it ON

That improved performance on my iPad 3 but keyboard is still lagging a bit.

Did You try all steps I wrote about?

Maybe that helps.

is there any way to downgrade from ios 7 to 6? my ipad became very slow ... too many lags ... and in safari if i go to google translate website, it closed automaticlly ...

sinashm wrote:

is there any way to downgrade from ios 7 to 6? my ipad became very slow ... too many lags ... and in safari if i go to google translate website, it closed automaticlly ...

It seems that it's illegal to speak or even think thoughts like that on these controlled forums!! 😮

You should tell Apple about it. i myself and many other want to downgrade to iOS 6 and if more people will ask for it...www.apple.com/feedback

sinashm wrote:

is there any way to downgrade from ios 7 to 6? my ipad became very slow ... too many lags ... and in safari if i go to google translate website, it closed automaticlly ...

No, there isn't any supported way to downgrade, and any instructions you might run across on teh web to do so are more than a little risky.

A reset may very well resolve the app issue: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps BEFORE doing the reset.

christianfromhessen wrote:

You should tell Apple about it. i myself and many other want to downgrade to iOS 6 and if more people will ask for it...www.apple.com/feedback

By all means submit feedback, but based on past history, won't happen.