iPad 2 very slow since ios8

mikelebron wrote:

I have already starting looking at alternatives and they are NOT Apple products. I am tired have the same old BS Apple puts out - little to no innovation and the quality has also suffered. Unfortunately the Apple of yesterdays is no longer.

I hear Google are bringing out the Nexus 8/9 in the next few days/weeks. Well worth a punt I've heard.

For the last 30 years I've never seen a major computer upgrade (and now iOS upgrades) that didn't have a number of problems with a small minority of users. And I'm talking about the whole point upgrades. It's gone with the territory for 30+ years. You prepare and be ready for problems, and sometimes you get them and sometimes you don't.

In this instance we're now seeing more and more iPad users getting their solutions and thongs are running fine for them. The others will get there too.

Done with iPads! $700.00 for a two year performance, not me anymore folks.

Sent from my iPhone

I'Ve already seen about three or four users reporting today that they've got their iPad 2s back to working normally. You should realize that according to the users here on this forum, it's entirely feasible and is to be expected (that it will work fine). It's just a matter of finding the solotion that works for your particular device. No "one solution" works for all users. If you quit before getting to the finish line, it's your loss.

Star Traveler wrote:

For the last 30 years I've never seen a major computer upgrade (and now iOS upgrades) that didn't have a number of problems

There are upgrades and then there are "Apple upgrades". Or doesn't your "installed user base" concur with that observation. 😁

Star Traveler wrote:

I'Ve already seen about three or four users reporting today that they've got their iPad 2s back to working normally.

Well that's it then three or four users now have a functioning iPad. Panic over, move along please there's nothing to see here now. LOL 😁

Major upgrades are all the same ... there are always problems. But here we see that the users are now solving their problems, and that is what is good about our forum of "users helping other users" ... :-) ...

That shows all the other users with problems that the iPad 2s are entirely capable of working well with iOS 8 ... and thus ... it will work for them, too.

Star Traveler wrote:

Major upgrades are all the same ... there are always problems.

If you say so, but there are problems and then there are...................... Apple problems. 😉

After I freed up an additional 15 GB of memory by removing lots of photo's and music I now have 20 GB available (out of 64) and the iPad seems to run faster...

AT least the screens pop-up much faster but still some hampering here and there and some apps seem to freeze some (up to 10) seconds when they start up, but again, better than before.

It seems memory management is more demanding in iOS 8 😟

humptyp wrote:

Had the same problems with my iPad 2. Have just done a backup and full restore, which took ages but seems to have fixed the issue - iPad back to normal speed.

Admittedly it's a real PIA but occasionally it's necessary and it does work wonders. I just went through it on my iPod.

IOS8/8.02 is terrible. it has turned my 2 iPhones & iPad a zombie!!! How on earth can Apple release such a terrible upgrade: need a n upgrade to breathe life back into my devices. Please Apple do something Before you start losing your Die hard fan base.

Did you see he marked his problem as SOLVED?

Yes but my devices still behave terribly after this upgrade.

You might try this one. Set your iPad up in the factory default condition without restoring your data and see how it works ...

keithfrommariettaOct 12, 2014 3:25 PM Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade
Re: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgradein response to pacoKAS

SOLVED: IOS 8 Issues on iPad 2:

I just returned home from a visit to the Genius Bar. Like you and many others, when I upgraded my iPad 2 to IOS 8, it became practically unusable. It was VERY slow, lagged whenever trying to to do anything. Lots of screen freezes and apps spontaneously crashing. I was convinced that the processor on the iPad 2 just couldn't handle the new IOS and I went in to see about restoring to IOS 7.

Thankfully, I was hooked up with a very sharp guy at the bar. The problem is not with the OS, it is with it being an *upgraded* OS. He used the analogy of when you had an older Windows computer and how over time (and over upgrades), they just tended to get slower and slower because of all of the garbage that was carried forward in the upgrades. At those times (and if you've ever had a Windows computer, you get this), the only thing that would speed it up would be to wipe the machine and do a fresh install of the current OS and then reload your apps, and the viola, everything would be fast again. Well, it turns out that IOS can suffer the same problems.

THE FIX: FIRST, be sure you have a current iCloud backup of your device. Connect your iPad to a computer that has a clean fresh copy of IOS 8 on iTunes (this is best done with a computer other than the one that you sync your device to because you DO NOT want to restore it from a back up just yet). Ideally, if you do this at an Apple store you'll be assured of the right version there and someone to answer any questions you might have along the way. You then hold the power and home button down to hard-reset the device and continue to hold them down until it reboots into recovery mode. You then follow the instructions on the computer to reinstall the OS on the device (which wipes everything from it and then reinstalls a clean copy of it). Once this is done (which only takes about 15 minutes), your device will reboot and ask you to set it up. Answer the questions about language, location, etc. and continue until it asks you to log into your iTunes account. Once you do that, it will ask if you want to either 1) Set it up as a new device, 2) Restore from iCloud, or 3) Restore from iTunes. Choose (2), restore from iCloud. This will ensure that it brings down "clean" copies of all of your apps and preferences rather than the potentially corrupted ones that might reside in your iTunes backup. That's it! It will take a few hours depending on how much data and apps you have, but I am happy to report that my iPad 2 is now running IOS 8 and it's running as fast as it ever did when it was brand new!

To sum it up, this process 1) Wipes your device and the garbage causing your problems, 2) Loads a clean and bug-free version of IOS 8 to your device, and 3) restores your apps and data so that it looks just like it did before the wipe, with the exception that it works now! :-)

Note also that by following this process you don't have to go through the painful and laborious process of reloading all of your apps, data and/or settings. iCloud takes care of all of that for you.