iOS 8 is slow on my iPad 3

aafter updating my iPad 3 to iOS 8 I noticed some strange things with the keyboard and the device became slower. What helped was resetting the settings and doing a reset (power button + home button ). Keyboard problems solved and device works more flawlessly. It's still a bit slower than with 7.1.2. Greets from Athens fellow apple users!!

My iPad3 severe lag was resolved. Had regretted upgrading to iOS8 but now my iPad3 resumed >80% of its original speed. Here's what i did.

1. Open a few webpages in Safari (i had 6 tabs openned)

2. Go to the last tab on the right & "pinch the page" with 2 fingers (the screen will reduce into 6 mini tabs).

3. Select any one of the mini tabs.

When Safari resumed normal size after Step 3, my iPad3's regsined 80% of it's original zappiness like magic. All other apps can scroll smoothly again.

I'm a happy iPad3 (iOS8) owner again, since 30minutes ago. 🙂

It worked for me. may it work for you too.

***now i wonder if i should risk upgrading to iOS 8.0.2, after regaining the smoothness. Will you?

ESCS

I have installed ios8.0.2 on my iPad 3 and it is a marked improvement over 8.0.

ios 8 is still a work in progress but it might be acceptable after a few more releases.

It seems that the first releases of iOS nowadays are of very poor quality.

iOS8 iPad3 mix has not been good - even more so after 8.0.2:

3-4 minutes to start as opposed to less than 1 before

home button does not respond when pressed while iPad connected to MBA for backup

on Google search page in Safari, nothing happens when tapping on a link

Pages frequently crashes while updating to Cloud, or at start

Numbers, Pages extremely slooooow to open - we've stopped using the iPad at work with groups of students

laggy, funky. Snappiness is a-goner.

Maybe time for Apple to force our hand, and purchase more recent iPad. Hopefully, Yosemite won't mean same for our "old" 2013 MBA.

Good news: haven't experienced issues with WiFi - as colleagues/friends have.

I have the same issues with my iPad 3 after upgrading to 8.0.2. I never installed 8.0. Mostly noticed in Safari when the iPad just appears to freeze up and not respond for 10 - 15 seconds. Spend frustrating time tapping links with no apparent response. Very frustrating. Also - random crashes of all apps. Just shut down and close for no reason. I do regular resets (Home and Power buttons) and have not noticed any real difference. My iPhone 5s works well on 8.0.2. Not sure what the issue is with the iPad.

Apple always said "we care about the user experiences, user ecosystem", these are all just by saying. They always left the old devices behind. Creating a new OS to ask public to update but indirectly slowing down their old devices and force them to change a new one. The User experiences are totally ruin by the new updates. I am so disappointing. I used to own whole range of apple products from phone to tablet to laptop. Now i start to change my phone, soon the rest to google system.

Well, like they say, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. It is true that some tasks on my iPad3 are noticeably slower than with OS 7.x, but the overall experience is not that bad. I also remember the issues with the rollout of OS7, and 7.1. has improved much of that. We'll see tomorrow whether 8.1. will improve the user experience. Good luck in the other ecosystem.

After reading a few of these posts this morning I was hesitant to upgrade from 7.x to 8.0.2. However, I went ahead and did it anyway even though 8.1 is due tomorrow. My performance under the latest 7.x version was less than stellar so I figured there was nothing to lose. ;-)

After upgrading and resetting all settings (General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings), my iPad 3 now seems quite snappy. Under 7.x I had the home button delay a few of you mention, but that seems resolved now. I'll continue testing Safari and others, but so far so good!

[ iPad 3, 32GB, Cellular+Wi-Fi ]

Resetting all unfortunately didn't work for me - same laggish behavior as before.

Microsoft supported legacy devices for years with each version of their new OS. Didn't work out so well for them.

Unreasonable to expect that hardware will continue to be able to support each new OS when the latest version has been geared to take advantage of advancements in technology. People need to take responsibility for their actions. Apple does't force update the OS. It's a user's choice.

Any user who blindly enters into an update with no idea of the potential impact is asking to be disappointed. I knew my iPad 3 might not perform as well with iOS8. I didn't care. More reason for me to get an iPad Air 2. For what I need to do on the device, it is sufficient. If zippiness was of prime importance to me, being a responsible consumer, I should stay with iOS 7.1.2.

Peoples' lack of personal responsibility is why we have warning labels. Many warnings, no matter how inane, are because some one did THAT thing that most people know you should not do, and then sued the company. No one told you to give the baby a plastic bag as a toy. Anyone in their right mind knows it's not a toy...except that one person. And now we waste ink printing "Not to be used as a toy" on plastic bags because of a personal responsibility deficit on this planet.

Could Apple be clearer about what the performance impact of an upgrade will be on an older device? Sure. Though, if it meets their benchmarks for performance, and they don't allow upgrades on devices that don't meet those benchmarks, what else do you really think is reasonable.

If you think this doesn't happen with the FAR less controlled OS environment of anything outside iOS/OS X, you're kidding yourself.

Ok, I not only reset all settings, but finally the entire device (DFU, If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support). This finally helped - now everything runs smooth again, I can't see any difference to iOS 7 regarding speed or performance.

Also wifi/bluetooth, Safari and everything else works like a charme.

So it was a software, not a hardware problem in my case.

What I definitely miss is a way to selectively restore single apps that do not have iCloud support.

I have to cherry pick all individual files via a 3rd party app backup tool (iMazing) and it's a pain.

In total, I lost nearly a full day with this stuff. Count this up to millions - what a waste of entire lifetimes - but this is not only an Apple related problem (just thinking back to all the Windows OS versions).

notyou, I agree with what you write about older hardware running the most recent software.... On the other hand,

- only few iOS8 specific features can be used on older iPads. It's not like there are tons of new features that would explain worse performance

- I can not imagine that none of this was noticed by Apple and/or developers before the final release

- I don't understand why Apple is so restrictive about downgrading towards an older version anytime (IOS4 had already crippled the iPhone 3G) and it's not that it's technically impossible. For most stuff you buy there is a return policy.

I dont agree with you. Don't expect every user is person who knows very well about technology particularly apple hardware and software. How do you explain why apple doesn't allow rollback to pervious software version? User should has the choice for test the new iOS if they don't like they can choose to go back. Every time apple tell in their key note up to 80 to 90 percents of user upgrade to iOS8. This figure does not show the happiness of the user.

While I do not disagree that it might not be reasonable to expect that “older” hardware may realize much benefit from an upgrade to the latest operating system, I do NOT think there should be any expectation that a device that Apple says will be compatible with the latest OS should actually perform worse. I did upgrade to a brand new iPad Air 2 and have been using that for a week, I find that it has some of the same behaviors that my iPad 3 experiences. Primarily this shows up when viewing web pages in Safari. I cannot, on either machine, get links on the page to respond to my touch until I scroll the page. After scrolling the page all of a sudden the links work and will actually react to the touch.

Something I did not expect was the random reboot that occurs from time to time and not commanded by me. I think it is clear that Apple is experiencing the same random bugs that have plagued Windows for year. Hopefully these things will get worked out over time, but until then, I guess we will just live with them.

Totally with you on the roll-back.