iPad 2 very slow since ios8

Thats great! I had already made an appointment at the genius bar, hoping that they could help, I will try this fix and report back!

thank you!

I did this method the 1st day it come out and yes... when I had nothing installed it worked fine... As I installed apps it got slower and slower and slower. Its better than not starting from a clean slate but its about 1/2 has fast at it was with iOS8... Report back but I suspect you will be in the same state as I am right now in a couple of weeks.

Every day I'm getting a load of apps making corrections so to be compatible with iOS 8. This is every single day and some days I get 20 or more, with some of them being the second or third tI'm e around they've "fixed" their apps. Now, I heard from another user here that he got Apple to run some special diagnostic software on his iPad and they found an especially bad app and told him to get rid of it, since the developer had not brought it up to date for iOS 8. He got rid of it, and his iPad went back to normal. I suspect that this new "interaction" between apps is causing havoc, when the developers don't get their apps in order. At least one case that I heard of ... was directly the fault of that app and its developer!

i had already performed clean install while upgrading to OS 8. The fact is that new OS degrades performance of the machine. I had no such issues with older OS versions. Same is the case with my iphone 5 & 4s . They were working like charm with OS 7 - until I decided to upgrade them to 8.

After working with my iPad 2 with freed-up memory a few days now I can confirm that it runs much faster.

I removed many of my photos and music and I have now some 20GB out of 64 GB available.

Not an ideal solution but it works for me for the moment.

The only problem left is the (Cellular-) "No Service" issue.

II've had exactly the same. Ipad incredibly slow and crashing. What's gone wrong with Apple?

I would recommend doing a reset to factory default with the iTunes program and don't put your backup back on until you check it out, with this new revision, iOS 8.1, which has some bug fixes, besides new features which are included.

And, report how it's going with the new revision ...

Re: Report on the NEW iOS 8.1 Revision Today

Back up and Restore your iOS Device with iCloud or iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

iTunes: About iOS Backups

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946

Use iTunes to Restore your iOS Device to Factory Settings

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

I am having pretty much all the same issues as everyone above. I already tried a back up to the last one I had. It did not help and stayed on ios8. I have freezing of apps, my settings and content screen is freezing, I lost things in the icloud. It is a mess. I sure would like to have ios 7 again. Why would they not test this with older models. It is giving this user a very bad experience and a bad apple taste in his mouth!!!

The problem has now become worse. I thought I would try to follow some of the advice about my ipad and reset to factory settings and then use a older restore/back up and now my home button does not work at all! I tried trouble shooting that with the home button calibration and that did no good! It seems as if my apple is rotten!

My iPad 2 works almost the same as on iOS 7... Only it now has Handoff and Continuity, which is kind of interesting, because i heard rumors it shouldnt 🙂

That's great! You might let people know about it on the thread that is tracking iOS 8.1 ...

Report on the NEW iOS 8.1 Revision Today

well. dont tell apple what you think. just change your mind silently.

i found you were sending the message by using iphone. change to samsung before sending your next message. lol...

NOpe. And apple doesn't care. Been asking for a fix since September.