IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

bhirsch13 wrote:

Sorry I do not have thing to offer, as far as fixing it. It also appears no one else does either. Aren't people supposed to be answering your questions rather than complaining of their own issues??? I come here looking for some answers not to hear about every one else's woes.

Then here's an idea. Start your own thread instead of hijacking someone else's!!

Pete

willfitz69 wrote:

Hay Pete,

Lousy idea. I didn't hijack anything..

Sent from my iPad

Probably why my post was addressed to someone else if you bother looking. And you are another example of how useless responses threadjack other peoples posts. 😉

Pete

"I signed up to add that my iPad 2 is also affected. I'm not a happy iPad owner. It took 45 minutes to write this one post! on my iPad."

apple sent me an email and said that my original post was "Speculative" And this forum is meant for technical question, soooooo

i have an iPad 2 running ios 8.1 that is still painfully slow, I have turned off the predictive text portion of my keyboard and it seems to have helped. Could the predictive text feature be causing problems? There also seems to a problem with the cut and paste. Especially on this site.

Like many of the other users here, for whatever reason, my iPad 2 is not more responsive following a complete reset and upgrade to iOS 8.1 using iTunes. I had high hopes that the upgrade was going to improve performance, but sadly that did not happen. Maybe there is a range of iPAD 2s that were produced with a hardware issue and compatibility issue. Whatever the cause, none of the steps provided in this forum have worked to restore my iPad 2 to an acceptable level of performance.

The problem is NOT as easily solved as Star Traveler represents.

"Maybe there is a range of iPAD 2s that were produced with a hardware issue and compatibility issue."

Well, that is a curious conclusion because prior to iOS 7 there weren't nearly as many complaints as there have been since iOS7. My iPAD is on iOS5.1 and does not seem to have any hardware issue at all. Therefore the right conclusion is obviously that the latest iOS versions has a compatibility issue with iPAD 2.

Star Traveler's method may be yield better results than the normal "on top upgrade", nevertheless it does not take any bad will or paranoia to conclude that Apples latest iOS software needs a lot more optimizaton for the older models before it can be called satisfying.

I am German and the german Apple forums are egally full of (sometimes quite desperate) complaints by people who find themselves with barely useable iPADs and cannot roll back to an older iOS version.

I'd say that for iPad 2, you're best off using iOS 6 or 5. Research to see if the latest versions of your needed apps will run on iOS 6. If they can't, see what the latest version is that can and see if iOS 6 will work for you. In my opinion, iOS 5 is the golden OS for the iPad 2, it was packed with features and was quick. iOS 6 was really a downgrade. So, use iOS 5 if you can, and iOS 6 if you really need it, and iOS 7 if you must have the latest. Wait for iOS 8.1.1 or so to upgrade your iPad 2 to iOS 8... Again, if you really need to. Each new OS will show the iPad 2's age.

I am so disappointed in Apple. my family has something from every line. And we all own iPhones. My iPad 2 has the worst problems and now I am rethinking Apple. I look and really they look at fixing theses"bugs" after the first of the year maybe!! I cannot put up with such incopitance. M My iPad is slow and behind on commands, crashes and just functions at way less than what this company should put out. Miss u Steve!! You were a hound for putting out such quality, this would never have been accepted.

Shredder2600 wrote:

I'd say that for iPad 2, you're best off using iOS 6 or 5. Research to see if the latest versions of your needed apps will run on iOS 6. If they can't, see what the latest version is that can and see if iOS 6 will work for you. In my opinion, iOS 5 is the golden OS for the iPad 2, it was packed with features and was quick. iOS 6 was really a downgrade. So, use iOS 5 if you can, and iOS 6 if you really need it, and iOS 7 if you must have the latest. Wait for iOS 8.1.1 or so to upgrade your iPad 2 to iOS 8... Again, if you really need to. Each new OS will show the iPad 2's age.

That is all good and well, but after updating to iOS8 there IS no rolling back to an earlier version. The Firmware has been updated, and Apple has stopped signing earlier iOSs. Those iPad2 users who come here do so because they have already updated and have issue, many which have already been solved. I do agree, however that each iOS upgrade will exploit the raging hardware of the device, just as each new OS X exploits older Mac machines with slower Processors and Memory increase capabilities.

Cheers

Pete

Hi everyone with troubles on iPAD 2.

Myself I have still hesitated to upgrade and will not do it before I can't be reasonably sure to keep having a well operating iPAD 2. I am still on iOS 5.1 and Shredder2600's posting makes me hesitate even more.

On the other hand, there is a thread in the german macuser.de forum about the iPAD 2 issues on iOS8, and there are several users who report they had success in getting a very useable iPAD/ iOS 8.1 experience by switching 2 (apparently) critical features off:

1. Settings -> General > Accessibility > Increase Contrast > Reduce Transparency -> On

2. Settings -> General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion

I'd be glad if some of you who now have glitches would try out those settings and report back.

Thanks,

Bernie

JSOT wrote:

Has anybody else upgraded to 8.1. I upgraded to 8 but reverted back to ios7 after my iPad was extremely slow and sluggish (ipad2). Will like to upgrade to ios8.1 but will like to know what has been the experience of others. thanks

NO!!!!! Don't do it! There's only two people on this forum that think 8 is an improvement. Any "good" results you find here are RELATIVE improvements (mitigating the damage from 8). You are lucky to still have 7, VERY lucky - I wish I still had 7 - it was a completely different device.

Star Traveller,

regardless of whether you are on Apple's payroll or not (you certainly do a lot to make people think so) it would help not to play the "know- it- all guy" and to constantly patronize and instruct people about what's right or wrong. There are lots who go through difficulties with iOS8 on their units, this is a simple fact, one can see it on both english and german forums. This hasn't happened with former versions to the same extent. For those people it is no help if some have managed to get their iPAD 2 units working after a total reinstall. It would be Apple's job to inform people before ⚠ that this is what probably has to be done when installing 8.x on an older unit.

Because this is exactly what I had to do today. I finally decided to give my iPAD 2 on iOS 5.1 a try, I did it on my iPAD directly. After everything seemed ok after the upgrade I ended up with a unit that froze in reboot and was unuseable allthogether. I had to go through the DFU service mode and wipe everything/ start from scratch.

This should not happen, because iTunes kept offereing me the upgrade since weeks.

So to make the long story short, I did a complete wipe and fresh reinstall without reinstalling a backup. App after app. This is time- consuming and should be clear before. No excuse for Apple here. Bad and un-userfriendly procedure.

The good part is that in the end I now have got a well working iPAD that does what it has to, quite fluidly (only switching on "reduce Motion"). So after all I am ok with what I have got, but I am not ok with the way I had to do it. We are talking 4-5 hours here (and I am not yet done) instead of an automatic process that should happen within an hour.

Star Traveler,

There are no rituals to follow to amend the lack of customer care Apple showed so far.

Facts are facts. You may like it or not. Your Employer may like it or not.

But they still stands.

Apple is forcing users to switch to a newer technology. It's called programmed obsolescence. What am i supposed to do with an unusable piece of hardware not enough powerful to run the software which I have no way to remove from it?

Enlighten me.

Alessio

Just because I'm a user on this forum who does provide a variety of solutions for various problems, doesn't in and of itself make me a "know it all" ... LOL ...

In case you don't know, this forum does have moderators who keep things in line with the "Terms of Use" here, and I really do appreciate those moderators and their work in keeping things on track ... even when they get me a few times, too ... :-) ...

Just keep it to asking for solutions to a problem from another user ... one in which you can implement it yourself ... OR ... keep it to providing those solutions that other users can implement themselves -- and you'll be okay.

I can see you're unaware of the fact that Apple is selling - TODAY - the iPad 2 model in its online store and it offers a full two-year warranty with it, too! You're stating things which are shown to be totally false, by the virtue Apple can't be making a model to be "obsolete" when they sell it today and will provide you with a full two years of warranty on it ... LOL ...

You should align your "imagination" with the "facts" of what Apple does ... :-) ...

Oh come on, bet you can do better than this without resorting to erase other's people posts.

I'm obviously aware of that!

Guess your employer has heaps of stores full of crates filled with ipad2 that needs to go!

I'm stating that Apple will not provide a solution for what is seen as an issue to many many customers. Prove me wrong, and i'm ready to provide my apologies to whom it may concerns.

Cheers

Alessio