iOs 7 on iPad 3

I too have made the mistake of upgrading my 60 day old iPAD to iOS 7. Prior to the upgrade I could leave the iPAD on for days (i'm a light user) without the power going down below 70%. Now it will go to 20% in 4 hours. Here is the fun part- it take 12 hours to get it to 100%.

When will this bug be fixed? And yes I am still using the same charget I got 60 days ago.

how does one downgrade an iPAD?

One does not simply downgrade an iPad.

You just learn to live with it.😝

Or sell that expensive hardware which just was updated to crap and move to a plattform where you decide. I was once loving the iPad as an tablet, but that ****** move from Apple made me sell my iPad. I was happy with it and iOS6 but iOS7 with it gorgeous performance *cough* on the iPad3 didn't quite work out....

I'm experiencing all of the above on my iPad 3 WiFi only 32Gb.

The device isn't unusable but when your ipad is 24 months old you don't expect Apple to downgrade your hardware without providing either prior notice/warning or a way to rollback to ios6. This is bad faith by Apple. Issues with ios7 are:

General slowdown and jerkiness, especially noticeable going from landscape to portrait and vice versa

Painfully slow preview/selection of wallpapers

wifi connection less reliable - prone to stuttering

Slow/jerky typing key recognition.

App un intended shutdowns. (Safari)

Longer time required to perform dictation.

Skeen3 wrote:

I'm experiencing all of the above on my iPad 3 WiFi only 32Gb.

I've never had a problem with iOS 7 on my iPad 3. Which of the trouble shooting steps mentioned in this thread and others on this forum have you tried so far?

I have the 32gb new iPad (3). I agree with all the issues being reported here. I've been so disappointed with how this goofy thing is working after the ios7 upgrade. My iphone 5 seems to be ok for the most part but all this advice about checking this, turning off that just because Apple won't step up to the plate and put some time and energy into correcting the performance issues is sending me back to Android. Samsung makes horrible appliances but their phones and pads are just incredible. I just bought a Note 10.1 and it blows the doors off the iPad. I'm going to give the iphone to my daughter and get an s5 whenever it is available. I'm done with i-everything.

LunaHost wrote:

I've been so disappointed with how this goofy thing is working after the ios7 upgrade.

Which trouble shooting steps to you bother ot take?

For me, one of the things I spend the extra for an Apple product is that "it just works" - iOS7 on iPad3 fails that test, and judging by the sheer volume of comments / views this thread has had, this experience is fairly widespread.

That said, the tweaks that seem to have gotten me back to a place where I can largely enjoy my iPad3 again are:

General > Reset > Reset All Settings [to get rid any of any sub-optimal settings inherited from restore etc - NB you will need to set various things up again e.g. passcode, wallpaper, wifi]

General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion > On

General > Accessibility > Increase Contracts > On

General > Background App Refresh > Background App Refresh Off

Privacy > Location Services > Turn off all the Apps you don't need

Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Turn off "Diagnostics & Usage", "Location-Based iAds", "Frequent Locations"

Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking > Turn On

iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads > Turn off "Updates".

Hope it helps you.

JimmyJimmyYam wrote:

For me, one of the things I spend the extra for an Apple product is that "it just works" - iOS7 on iPad3 fails that test, and judging by the sheer volume of comments / views this thread has had, this experience is fairly widespread.

Which is a lot like saying, judging by the sheer number of sick people in the ER, everyone in the world must be sick. And, in fact, there really aren't that many threads about problems with iOS 7 on the iPad 3.

Hope it helps you.

Well, thank you but I have had, as I've noted, no difficulties with iOs 7 on my iPad 3. It has just worked since I installed it. Perhaps it will help someone else, though.

I've tried every suggestion. And I've run hot and cold on whether or not Apple really owes every iPad 3 owner a new tablet.

The notion that I have to cripple features to make it usable, seems a bit over the top, although I have mine thoroughly crippled, and it's still sticky, and apps (many of them, not just Safari) will just suddenly quit. It isn't that it isn't usable -- it is. But it is certainly making me CRANKY, especially when I'm in the middle of something and an app crashes or I need to actually type something longer than a word a two. I'd blame the app developer, but that would be a cheap shot pointed at the wrong party ...

I'd settle for an iPad 3 "special downgrade offer" back to iOS 6, and a fully functional, uncranky device.

This solved my problems. Thanks.

See JimmyJimmyYam's post below. It cleared up my problems.

I'm surprised that this thread is this many pages. What JimmyJimmyYam posted? I learned a few new things to check as well as what I've already done. This really needs to be posted as a tip, it's very helpful info.

So, I've been struggling with this for a couple weeks, probably since 7.0.3 (on 7.0.4 now). I have done everything suggested on various Apple forum threads and have basically stripped my iPad of all functionality, and still battery drain was in the range of 1% per hour on idle.

I hate to sound like a schill for this app, but I got a free app called "SYS-Lite" that has a battery calibration feature and it finally fixed this problem for me. If you want to try it, download the app and go to the "Battery" tab. You drain your battery to less than 10% and then turn on the app and leave it alone overnight. It will charge fully and then doing some kind of trickle charge after reaching 100%. It sounds an alarm when it determines your battery is re-calibrated. I just left mine connected for about 36 hours.

I don't know if they're full of BS, but it seems to have finally done the trick for me (it's a free app anyway). The battery drain seems totally normal now.

I hope this helps someone!

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