IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

Put down the koolaid.

Safari is not 3rd party app. Neither is the built-in mail program. The problem is with iOS 8, not 3rd party apps.

glad you enjoyed your reassuring discussion with the cult representative, but most of us aren't buying it.

your right!!! Now more koolaid....i am not happy here, that is for sure...and I have to do without some of my apps to boot...but it is working "better" which is not good enough...by far not good enough...I was happy only because it seems to be working Better....as anyone else out there contacted support over the issues?? If so, what did you discover??

I spook too soon. I had not updated my band's iPad 2 from 8.0.0 to 8.0.2. I did so today and saw zero improvement in speed with it.

Very laggy and that is HORRIBLE for my band because this thing has to work in real-time with a Mackie mixer.

The iPad is the control surface, it replaces the knobs and sliders on a mixing console.

I guess I will attempt to downgrade it to 7x and just reload ONLY the Mackie app.

Meanwhile, my main iPad 2 64GB w/Verizon cellular is still jerky and laggy. It is also used as a control surface for our Mackie mixer (DL-1608 if you want to Google it). And while it did work at our last gig, my wife reported it being very difficult to work with (she runs sound for us from out front).

I used the other iPad (that i just updated today) for controlling our 3 monitor mixes, and it seemed "okay".

Certainly not responsive like the old 7x was.

I may bite the bullet and just reload my main iPad to 7x and spend the hours to install every app and reconfigure them. So many of these apps have no way to save their config. Apps like my video camera controllers, CCTV and Surveillance video monitors, customer tools (I work in the IT field), etc.

If I go that route, I might as well just buy a new Android tablet and configure it from scratch, it'll be the same amount of work for me.

*sigh* Apple has sure let me down.

Even after upgrading to iOS 8.0.2, I am still been unable to use the cellular on my iPad 3rd generation. I've reset my iPad and tried all of the suggestions others have listed to no avail. I use my iPad for work, so my iPad is basically useless unless I'm around wifi. Help!!!

My safari and regular apps should never be so slow. New update is their fault. It should not have been put out so soon if so flawed. I also do believe they do it ill owing that eventually the latest IPads will be rendered useless and will incite new purchases. Not me though.

I Am very interested in the info to go back to 7. I absolutely hate my ipad now. I feel anxiety like when i was a windows user..i was told you cannot go back once you update. Can you pass me the info please. Thank you.

Agreed... I am over apple.. No more apple products for me. They should change to lemon... Lots of people very upset. I will not buy another ipad because the update killed it and they wont step up and make it right... Losing one customer at a time. Heard great things about the samsung tablet though...

well said, I will never buy an apple product again. They are now losing their market.. I used to praise apple to everyone. Now I have to wash my mouth out with soap and agree with the android market and the apple haters. Apple just proved their point.. Just typing this is frustrating.... Quality is way down......

For everyone on here, Apple is a solid good product. Please don't be quick to judge.

DId Apple releae IOS 8 too soom.....YES!

I Really did find much difference between 7 and 8, except that 8 is slower than a hurd of turtle racing thur peqnut butter.

and battery life hoovers.

hey Apple, it is Safari and Mail that keeps crashing for me. Not 3rd party apps.

please fix.

oh ghost of Steve Jobs, please go back to your office at Apple and fiven them ****.

The iPad used to be fun.

After these 2 o8 update(s), I am having to do numerous reboots, restarts, the device WILL NOT retain content from 2-3 different internet tabs...leaving me to refresh each page as I try and move between them.

It also fails to copy when I touch the 'copy' tab, and does not hold the pasted items if I have to copy more than one item between pages.

The keyboard with that word suggestion feature chokes up constantly and is a irritant.

Nothing about the user side of this update makes any of the tech adjustments enjoyable.

I regret updating. You have screwed up my device.

Not too mention wiping out my photo albums (on iPhone too) as well.

Internet page loading is also slower than an XP IBM. I dread having to use this device. The PC I use works better.

OOh the diehards, who in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary still spew the party line. Apple USED to produce excellent products, bow their updates brick previously functioning devices, because Apple told the owners the update was appropriate. It was not. The only two choices why this happened is (a) Apple was negligent in its testing, or (but probably and) (b) it was intended for us to give up and buy new iPads.

i won't be doing (b) unless the prices drop to match the competitors' prices for equivalent products. Apple is no longer the leader in technology, but following. Unless bendy phones is the new trend...

All,

TIme for my update... 2 days in and no problems now with 3G setting (except when really going out of coverage area)!

So I'm on a 32GB iPad 2 with Vodafone in the UK, performance was fine on latest iOS 7 release, then upgraded to 8.0.0 followed by 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 without much difference...

So I now have the following turned OFF and performance is approaching what I had in iOS 7 (still not quite there!):

Background app refresh (all but one app monitoring data usage!)

Keyboard predictive text

Location services for most apps!

Cellular/mobile is NOT now set for automatic carrier selection!

Privacy, location, system services, cellular location setting is off!

Wallpaper perspective zoom is off!

Hope that helps someone else?

Regards,

Dominic

Apples answer is to buy a new iPad. I don't think so. Apple came out with another ios for the six because it's newer. Are all the people that own ipad2 supposed to just go out & spend hundreds of dollars for a new one. how many people can afford that. Are the people with newer iPads more mportant as ipad2 owners? I will not buy a new iPad. If Apple does not fix this issue, I will buy a tablet that is not Apple & will never buy another Apple product. Apple, get it together & fix our ipad2

TThis is absolutely the worst iOS system update. I updated to version 8.0.2 on all my systems: two iPads, two iPhone 5s and an iPhone 4s. We are experiencing numerous problems in many apps where they crash. One time my wife couldn't get the keyboard to come up numerous times on the text message app. On iTunes, i went to select a song and the system started scrolling all the songs for that artist right to left and it didn't stop until I got out of the app. All systems are running so slow they are almost unusable. This has made me think I might abandon Apple altogether. I will start updating my hardware soon and I am losing confidence in software management at Apple.

For anyone defending Apple or this 8.0.x update, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you don't own multiple iPads that you use for work.

In my family and my business, we own 5 ipads... Two ipad 2 16GBs, one iPad 2 64GB w/ cellular, one ipad 2 16GB w/ cellular, one ipad 3 16GB with cellular, and an iPad mini. We also have one ipad 4s in the family. Without exception, each of these is running miserably since the upgrade except ONE!!!! The one that is still on iOS 7.....

We've tried every tip we have found. We have attempted to revert the most important of these devices to iOS 7, but the restore fails so no apps would be configured. Without my apps, I might as well stop working. But, with them, on iOS 8, I find myself using my android phone and my windows notebook now.

There is zero excuses for this. It was poor planning on apple's part. And the standard line of "you should consider the new Apple, which is designed to take advantage of iOS 8 and future releases", has only served to tick me off.

Our devices are not enjoyable to use, and we sure cannot be productive with them in a work environment.

I'm going to go write up a long, scathing blog post about this, because, if I post it here, it will be deleted. I would have posted a link to a great blog post someone else wrote on the subject, however something as simple as copy and paste us not working on this iPad. Just typing this reply was painful because of the new and enhanced keyboard lag.

TO any of you who are not having trouble, I'm very happy for you. But trust me, there are many more who are having problems than you see here.

Several people who have attempted to express their feelings and describe their issues here have had their comments removed btw.

Good luck to anyone having the same issues we are.