IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

Me having same slow, hanging, sometimes freezing for a few minutes with iOS 8.0.2 on my iPad Air 128GB fully charged. Mail freezes and then exits itself. So many times! I Reset the entire ipad and restored as new. It didnt help. Its a shame! I am having issues with my iPod Touch 5th generation and iphone as well.

Does anyone on this forum know of anyone with an iPad2 upgraded to iOS 8.0.2 that is satisfied with performance after the upgrade. If so, can you possibly persuade them to make a post here and detail how they made the upgrade work? I have not heard from anyone who has been satisfied with the upgrade so far. If satisfied upgraders are out there, I would like to know how they pulled it off.

Please ask your friends and family. If there are millions of satisfied users with the upgrade, they must have done something that we missed and even Apple Support missed. If there is nobody, that would also be interesting and we can stop looking for solutions - their may not be a solution at this time - other than purchasing a new iPad - something that I am not ready to do at this time - maybe never.

I found a fix! Okay, so try clearing Safari History in Settings>Safari>Clear History and Website Data then go into Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings, please let me know if this works, I had a friend try this and it worked. 🙂

@Dracofear - resetting Network Settings will indeed give you back your cellular service, TEMPORARILY. I did this on average slightly more than once a day until I became very tired of re-entering all my wifi passwords for memorized networks. A reboot will accomplish the same thing, but without losing network settings.

It depends. If you just want to belittle the people with iPad 2s that are having problems with iOS 8, you can post here, along with "Star Traveler" and "Philly_Phan." If you want to discuss the fact that Apple has screwed you over, you'll get censored.

DRacofear, Thanks for suggestion. Tried it, will let you all know if it helps my issues. PLEASE NOTE: before anyone tries this, be sure you know and have on hand your router/wireless network password!!! You will need to rejoin network. Luckily, my husband wrote it down for me and I knew where to find it.

I had similar issues with a very slow iPad 2, the spinning icon in all aps etc. Decided to do a restore via iTunes, A WHOLE BUNCH BETTER. Did it solve ALL issues NO. My iPad went from not usable to almost like it was in IOS 7 version with regards to speed. Maybe worth a try.

@Dracofear - I have been dealing nonstop with this issue for about two weeks and it seems you have too. I am coming to the conclusion that iOS8 has a much higher CPU load, in part due to many additional features though for many other reasons. I have found that a long trip through settings, turning off a number of Safari's new advanced features has made a difference for me. Clearing caches as you recommend has helped as well. It seems Apple was a bit optimistic recommending the ipad2 for its use but by manually stripping new features away I am almost back to ios7 level of performance. The cellular network dropping remains a big issue though.

I'd like to thank the folks that put the time into posting possible solutions as opposed to simply arm-waving. I'm running 8.0.2 on an ipad 2 (A1395) and I've been working through several of the suggestions from this thread- and they have helped quite a bit. With that said, I suspect that when iOS 9 shows up my ipad 2 won't make the list and "downgrading" should remain an option.

AAnd I'd like to thank those of you who have demonstrated a sincere and legitimate anger at having been screwed by Apple instead of just unplugging half the apps and most of the functions and saying "It still runs, kind of- I hope Apple feels my internal discord."

Please do not come to the forums if all you're gonna do is gripe and complain, how about you actually try some of the stuff that people are suggesting? we are all here to help and if you dont want our help then get out. Im sure apple is working really hard on an update to fix this but till then we have to work with what we got. Like previous people have said what I suggested worked, so how about you try that? Grow up and stop being so imature. We are giving you the power to fix the issue, and you choose to gripe and complain instead of trying to fix it. That is your fault, not mine, not apple's. So you can either try to fix the issue, or you can just deal with the problems you are having till apple fixes them.

I was advised not to upgrade my iPad 2 to IOS 7. The hardware, especially the processor, just isn't up to it. Just as old computers won't work well with new versions of Windows, although Microsoft won't stop you from installing them.

I am glad my ipad2 was included in the ios8 approved list, even tho there should have been an asterisk. If not, I wouldn't be able to share via iCloud drive with my computer and phone and that is a big deal for me.

Right, it's not an easy decision where to draw that line.

Arguably, its a bigger problem on phones and tablets, because the technology is improving much faster than the comparatively mature technology of desktop computers, for example.

"although Microsoft won't stop you from installing them."

You're completely missing the point - Microsoft won't stop you installing them but more importantly, it won't prevent you from un-installing them and going back to what did work. Ditto Android and Linux.

It's perfectly reasonable that the newest software won't run well on an older machine. What is not reasonable is to actively prevent you from downgrading when you find out it won't.

When Apple was producing unquestionably the best tablets, they could bully their customers like that. They now have strong competition. My mother now has a tablet from another maker and I have one on the way. I will not be held hostage to Apple's fortune.

My interest in this forum now is to flog the two iPad2s in decent working order so I continue to follow gratefully those who try to help.