iOs 7 on iPad 3

Problems still remain also after 7.03 installation. Every recommendation that exists...I have done it but nothing. Especially the matter with the battery is killing me.if I charge it closed, in 8 hours it gains about 24%!!! Only by having it open it charges from empty within a night (where of course still it needs about 13 hours to charge).

If I manage to use it about 6 hours I am happy before the battery dies. And is not even 1year old!

Just a crap and nothing more.

Lots of complaining, but IMHO the problems result from the OS 7 updates. In order to get an iPad running best under OS 7.0.3 it appears to be necessary to (1) do a full backup in iTunes, (2) Restore iPad to factory settings, then (3) Restore Backup. While a time consuming process, once completed your iPad should no longer experience many of the issues people are complaining about. Aside from losing issues in Newsstand apps, everything else should be restored. You should also notice increased free space, which implies that the update procedure of writing an new OS over an old OS did not delete everything.

I did this already -- full backup, restore to factory settings, restore backup... didn't put a dent in any of my problems (lagging keyboard, choppy animations). I even tried it for a day after the factory reset BEFORE I restored my backup, and it behaved the same then.

Marios Papadimitriou wrote:

[...] if I charge it closed, in 8 hours it gains about 24%!!! Only by having it open it charges from empty within a night (where of course still it needs about 13 hours to charge). [...]

I'm not sure what "open" and "closed" mean here.

Do you mean screen "on" and "off"? And it charges faster when the screen is on than when it is off??

Do you mean an external case folded away and folded shut? And it makes a measurable difference??

Do you mean something else? If so, what?

I mean exactly what i write.closed means totally closed, not closed cover or closed screen or anything else.i plug the original charger with the original cable, and then i close it totally from the power button. Not into sleep mode, total power off.

On means that the device is powered on, but in sleep mode since i do not use it while charging.

So while I hate to admit it the iPad Air after seeing it in person is a worthy upgrade in my opinion. The size and weight are reasons alone to kiss our iPad 3 problems goodbye not to mention the A7. I still think iOS 7 needs optimizing. 7.0.3 fixed a majority of the issues I was experencing and doing a settings reset combined with turning off motion etc. The question remains do we keep giving Apple more money to do the same thing again when iOS 8 or iOS 9 turns our iPads into a useless brick? Other options include the Note 10.1 2014 or a Surface Pro 2. Both offer a stylus with the advantage going to Windows for a smoother UI and ability to run desktop apps. However the desktop on the Surface looks super tiny and the Note 10.1 is nowhere to be found in Canada.

Same problems with my Ipad 3. For me it's unusable. Even my friends Ipad 2 seems to be faster. Apple has done an aweful job on ios7 for ipad 3. I used to love my ipad, but now - horror.

Agreed.

iPad iOS 7 is hopeless. It has less features than the previous version, makes apps crash, and goes at half the speed of the previous version. It is hopeless.

And what happened to my word-search function is Safari? Where did that go to? And why cannot I just touch a button to go to the top or bottom of a web page, as I could on my iPad 1?

And what happened to screen sensitivity? With iOS7 I NEVER get a capital letter at my normal typing speed, when the previous version had no problems. I now have to type like a cretinous monkey with a broken arm, for the iPad to keep up and give me a capital letter.

Congrats Apple, my iPad is now on Ebay for sell. After last year's iOS6 update and maps dissaster which led me to switch my iPhone for a Nexus device you now have me selling my iPad because of a horrible user experience with your new iOS.

Hopefully you don't **** up on OSX in the future....

Yeah, I am thinking of doing the same. This new upodate is wasting so much of my time, in correcting its typing errors and crashing half way through writing something, it has become a liability.

And I cannot even word-search a web page, or jump to the end (does Apple know how long some web pages are nowadays?). But I could do this 2 years ago, so why not now? Why is Apple going backwards?

As I said before, whoever sanctioned this update should publicly fall on his or her sword. We want to know who it was, and why this happened.

My ipad 3 also having the same problem after update iOS 7.0.3 speaker is not functioning.

I'm so disappointed with this apple service. Many complaint flying on the air and still nobody border us.

At least tell us what to do.

And my first ever complaint about the iPad is still here, after 3 or 4 years.

If you use the cellnet option, you cannot reload your account from the iPad, and it will still not tell you how much data-credit you have left, or how fast it is using the credit.

It is like buying a car with no fuel filler cap (you have to transfer fuel from another car), that has no speedometer and no odometer either.

All I want to know, is how much credit do I have, and how fast is it being depleated.

I have same problems with IPad 3. laggy keyboard, wallpapers perfomance. at the moment i hate my IPad 3. 😢It´s not the performance, i used to know. apple please fix this problem very very fast!!!!!

go to settings. General. Reset. "Reset All Settings"

go to icloud. Turn off documents and data sync if it's on switch it off or vice versa. I don't know why this works. But it does.

Turn off all the crap you don't need. I.e. Background App Refresh. Location Services.

GO to accessibility and turn on Reduce Motion

clean out safari. I.e. Cache etc.

the first two are the most important. And helped me.

Truth be told "The New iPad" was replaced in 1,2,3,4,5,6 months because Apple realized they had a dog on their hands. The GPU can't keep up with the retina display. That's why the 1.4GHZ processor and more powerful GPU in the ipad 4 dances circles around our ipad3 investment.

iOS7 is garbage performance wise they haven't optimized it for older devices. Not yet a little bit with 7.0.3 but iOS 7 is a memory hog.

I Bought the iPad Air it's just too fast and light to resist. It's great but Safari still crashes. I can see under diagnostics that low memory logs are generated by Safari. When will Apple learn to put more ram in a tablet? Sure it runs iOs7 otherwise perfectly but let's see what happens when ios8 or 9 come out. I'm gonna stick to the OS from now on that the device ships with.

ONe one exception to that rule is Macericks which has breathed new life into an otherwise paper weight MacBook Pro 2008.

This will not help slove any of your issues, but i have an iPad 3, 64GB, wifi-only. My upgrade to 7.03 went smooth, and works just as it did under 6.x. I did not need to do any restores or resets. I did turn off the "cool" motion stuff. It does nothing for me. And since there is now so much more "white", I keep my brightness around 30-40% now.

I was supprised to see that I no longer had a backup to restore to the first time after the update.

I always make sure i have completed an Itunes backup right before any OS upgrades. So before going to 7.0 Idid a backup. Then I do the OTA update.

I completed the ios to 7.0, then to 7.03 came out I did another iTunes backup. When i connected to itunes last week, after the 7.03 update, there was no "Last Backup" in iTunes.

So that was wierd. Good thing i did not need to "restore".

Anyway, sorry read about these IPad 3's going bonkers after the 7.0 update.

Bob