Ipad mini with retina wifi extremely slow/dead after ios 8 update

How do I Downgrade??? please help am totally regretting this thank Jeez I always use my iPad as a Guinea Pig when these things come out I leave my iPhones for 6 months later when everything is ironed out .....

Alright,

I updated to 8 last night, as in India it came last night and I am facing the same problem. Now I have sorted it out, I don't know if this will work permanently or if its just a temporary solution

1st Solution : -

Go to Settings

Select Wifi

Select your network

Then select 'i' right beside the the wifi symbol of your network

See the IP address and under that see DHCP

Now go to STATIC (3rd option) and see if the contents are the same as DHCP

If, yes then reset the network settings and fill it again

If, no then write it down somewhere and copy it.

Then click on Renew Lease

When, prompted, Click Renew Lease ?

OR

Forget your network

Once your 3g/LTE is on,

Turn it off

Re-join the network.

OR

Connect your Iphone to your PC/Mac

Go to Itunes

If you have taken backup previously before updating to iOs 8

Click on Restore BACKUP

Please press Restore backup and not Iphone

The old settings would also restore and this should help.

Thanks

Smit

See the solution below, if it works.

Thanks

Smit

Performing a factory reset and then restoring from my iTunes backup (made just before I upgraded) worked for me... iPad mini (not retina). I'd tried resetting just the network settings, but it did nothing. I was GOING to try to get it back to iOS 7.1.2, but tried a factory reset first (phew!)... Wi-fi is good now. Thanks!

Hope this helps someone else,

Donna

I posted the fix i duscivered that has fixed everything so far posted in another forum.

go to settings and reset your network settings, it will reboot and you need to re input your WiFi key

you will loose all your web site and forum auto fills

Alan

Additional Observation

so far few reports if any, of phones having problems

My iPad 2 64gb retina with gsm suffered this fault, but my older iPad 2 with no gsm was fine, not a single problem other than needing several tries at installing the uodate.

hope that helps anyone with tracking down the bugs.

ipad air less than a year old. iOS 8 has practically bricked it. As it keeps dropping wifi and is now utterly useless as a tablet. iPhone 5s is fine. Thanks apple! No really, thanks!

Just came out a 45 minute chat and a one hour call with Apple. It looks like my iTunes backup of my iPad mini got somehow corrupted. Happily I also own an iPad Air and I am restoring it from that device. If your backup also got corrupted during the installation of iOS8 I am afraid you can only set it up as a new device and start all over again. You can download your apps from the App Store, your music from the iTunes Store and try to get your pictures back from iPhoto or so. I don't see a way to use the old backup if it is corrupted as well.

If you can't restore try to hold both buttons for 30 seconds or so until you see the "connect to iTunes" logo on your screen. If iTunes is complaining about turning off "Find My iPhone" you can delete the device via iCloud.com.

Life's getting easier and easier :-)

Breath 😉.

Have you read the earlier posts?

go to settings and reset network connections,

it will reboot, you will need to put your WiFi key back in.

so far reports are positvive, nobody has said it has not worked for them yet.

That is not true.

patrick London wrote that it didn't work for him.

Same problem here - resettet network settings but didn't help. Safari pages and also videos in the YouTube app don't load.

I've not seen Patriics Post, i'm not an Apple software engineer, i shared what i found worked for me on my iPad, as in any work around, not guarenteed to work for everyone unfortunately.

I know it needs a lot of space, noticed mainly mini's have failed to be fixed, so perhaps tend to be more fully loaded with data and films by their owners?

Going by positive reports in here and other forums with dedicated Apple iOS sections, it has a very high success rate.

if it only worked for a few, and got them going i'd call that a success 🙂.

It definitely did not work for me. I have the same problem on a mini retina and an ipad air.

I too have a Mini Retina and the WiFi 'works fine until it doesn't' problem. After trying all the Reset Network stuff, I did a full restore/set up as a new iPad via itunes and my cable.

Still had the problems.

What *seems* to have fixed it for me was something I read somewhere else and that's putting in a static IP on the iPad itself for my home network rather than having my Airport Extreme serve one up via DHCP.

It's been about 20 hours now since I've done this, it hasn't screwed up.

Google a bit to find instructions if you're unfamiliar with how to do this. You'll need to know some stuff about your home network too. You need an IP, a Subnet Mask, the router's IP address and an outside your network DNS server. Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are good ones to use.

Resetting the network settings did not help on my iPad mini, turning off Bluetooth did help quite a bit, but something is still amiss. If i run the OOKLA speed test, you can watch the wifi sporadically drop out, then recover as the download test runs. The upload test works much more smoothly. Turning off the Bluetooth didn't make it download smoothly like my iPhone, but it made the "surges" fast enough to bring the average throughput to a useable level. I look forward to finding a fix that stops the dropouts

I Just tried the static ip method and it unfortunately didn't help, it worked well for a minute, then started to stutter again.