IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

I am not advertising for donations. But your comments were clearly directed at me.

But is this forum is only intended for technical issues that Apple are prepared to accept? I am disappointed that I find the moderation rather one sided with valid concerns and pleas for help being treated with derision. Not what I expected from Apple or the Apple community.

Very disappointing

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Skooty Alan wrote:

I am not advertising for donations.

Yes you are. And the forum Moderators continually remove it, yet you keep trying to put up the links for personal donations. 😉

I don't think there needs to be any other comment on your reason for being here.

Pete

JSOT

Good to hear you have made progress and found a solution.

Could I just check something with you? Did you restore your apps from an iCloud backup or go to the App Store and download each app again?

Many thanks

What improved things for me:-

Reset Network settings.

This was the main contributor in speeding up web browsing. I don't know why.

Be careful to switch back to WiFi if your were on it, because doing this defaults to Cellular. And you'll have to put your password in again, so make sure you know it before resetting. 🙂

Turn off everything that does back tasks, like bluetooth, and untick Spotlight for everything, except perhaps 'Apps' because that one is quite useful and doesn't internally update until you change the apps on your device.

This is a hunch because every OS upgrade in the history of computers is slower and clunkier than the last, and the latest uses multi-threaded tasks to take advantage of the new processors, which will also cause older computers to stutter and jerk about as tasks take over the whole system momentarily.

However, saying that, Apple know the limitations and peel back OS consumption on the iPad 2, but as others have said, Apple don't care about anything more than thee years old.

ALAN,

I went to the app store and looked in my purchased apps. I then selected the apps i wanted downloading again. I got rid of quite a lot of apps i had and was not using anymore ( saved space and time).

we have also an Ipad Mini 2 and we tried upgrading to 8.1 and restoring a backup. That did not work, then we tried a clean install and the Ipad also works flawlessly. The same is happening with the Iphone 5, we restored a backup and we are having tons of issues. We will try a clean upgrade tonight.

thanks,

Jose

Business computers rule #1 - If it ain't broke, don't up-break it.

👿 Tell ALL clients that if they update the OS then they will be disciplined for outrageous misuse of company hardware.

You wouldn't update an OS on a desktop computer now, would you? All **** would break out from the IT department!

Zotlerg wrote:

Business computers rule #1 - If it ain't broke, don't up-break it.

👿 Tell ALL clients that if they update the OS then they will be disciplined for outrageous misuse of company hardware.

You wouldn't update an OS on a desktop computer now, would you? All **** would break out from the IT department!

I only wish it were as simple as that. My company provides outsourced IT services for small and medium sized businesses. All told, we are responsible for about 1000 servers and and maybe 10,000 total devices including iPads, iPhones, etc.

These businesses usually have no in-house IT support. They consist of a bunch of BYOD users when it comes to mobile. We have zero input, other than to make recommendations. So immediately when any update comes out for Android or Apple, my guys are to load it, play with it and if anything is noticed that could affect the clients, we send out a mass email and give our input. It is up to them to follow or not follow what we suggest.

In this case, we recommended that the users NOT update their iOS devices. Hundreds did any way. And that's fine. Until the phone starts ringing with a lot of people experiencing the same problems.

Nightmare, that's a lot of devices. My input about installing would be always be no, but there's the difficulty of client relationships - rock and a hard place.

Oh well, lets hope the programmers at Apple can debug their code, and quickly.

Zotlerg wrote:

Nightmare, that's a lot of devices. My input about installing would be always be no, but there's the difficulty of client relationships - rock and a hard place.

Oh well, lets hope the programmers at Apple can debug their code, and quickly.

8.1 and total reloads got these devices back to about 75% of where they were prior to 8x. Crossing my fingers for an 8.1.1 soon that fixes the clipboard problem. That is one that I have found zero fixes for, and that is the most important thing for a lot of my clients (attorneys and paralegals are the biggest complainers about that). *sigh*

Ali098 wrote:

How did you find the iOS 7, my is now completely useless after the update.

We did not "find" iOS 7 - that is no longer a viable option. We found replacement devices. New (Refurbished) iPad 2s from the Apple store were purchased, some from Verizon and AT&T. In some cases, Verizon and AT&T were convinced by business users to just swap out the iPads....

The replacements came with iOS 7 on them. Problems 100% solved and the users are happy.

Be warned though - we tested an out of the box iPad we purchased from Apple that came with iOS 7, by putting iOS 8.1 on it - it exhibited the same issues many are experiencing with their upgraded tablets. Don't be fooled into thinking that finding a refurb tablet and loading 8x on it will solve your problems, in our experience it will not at this point. You will still experience increased overall and keyboard/input lag over the 7 device, and you will have no reliable clipboard...

Why do my clients want older iPads? Besides iOS 7 being on them (at last we checked) - they have the connectors they need for certain devices such as dictation and control applications. They don't want to use adapters and upgrade their equipment just yet.

iPad 2 are perfectly capable machines for everyday use, so why not use them indeed.

But Apple are not interesting in 'old' stuff (3 years), it's quite evident with the XCode development SDK availability on OSX.

GGood posts with valid points. I have done the full reset many times. I have lost calendar items as part of the process and of course many settings have had to be done again. Safari still freezes and the iPad tHe iPad runs very slow. It is also very slow running Facebook. More and more I am going to my iMac to do what I used to do on the iPad. Very frustrating. IOS 8.1 has not fixed my issues - they have been slightly improved. My iPad 2 is now aspiring to mediocrity!!

Jose

Many thanks, this is very helpful. I have always restored my apps. I was put off downloading again because I was worried I may be charged again!! And it will take forever. However, like your self I have also deleted lots of apps I don't need.

I was thinking of buying my wife a mini 3 but I am really concerned about performance - her original iPad keeps lumbering along!!

Alan

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Skooty Alan wrote:

GGood posts with valid points. I have done the full reset many times. I have lost calendar items as part of the process and of course many settings have had to be done again. Safari still freezes and the iPad tHe iPad runs very slow. It is also very slow running Facebook. More and more I am going to my iMac to do what I used to do on the iPad. Very frustrating. IOS 8.1 has not fixed my issues - they have been slightly improved. My iPad 2 is now aspiring to mediocrity!!

Funny, I had the same conversation with a guy last night at a Halloween party. He asked where my iPad was, since I have been known for years to carry it everywhere. I told him I now go to my phone, because it is quicker, and less frustrating. Sad to say.

The calendar loss is not really the iPad, I don't think. Of all the problems I have seen this last month+, that has not been the big one.

If you are syncing that to a corporate server, it may be set to only sync two weeks at a time maybe? Maybe the calendar entries are there, but just too far out? You can change that and maybe it will fix it. Sorry for all the "maybes", but I'm not sure.

Again, while the freezing and slowness in general I can attest to, this calendar thing is not something people have been complaining about to me. Not saying it is not happening either, because some people will swear up and down that certain problems don't exist, such as "I don't have any problem copy/pasting", until you show them, then they are like "ohhhh, sorry, I see now"

I will not recommend resetting again, you may encounter the same issue I have, I can not even do the set up, so I can't access anything in the ipad.

I am going back to the store, since my ipad was at least functional when I took it in this afternoon before they reset it and now is useless. When I was there earlier today they offer to give me a brand new iPad 2 (same iPad I have) for a discounted price of 249 dollars since I have the 32GB, but I don't want to spend that kind of many and I don't need a new one, mine was working just fine before the update.