IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

John

I am only syncing my iPad to my iMac. I retired 2 years ago after 43 years in IT - I startef in my teens as a trainee programmer, 6 weeks after Mr Armstrong stepped off a lunar lander. I have weathered all sorts of upgrade/ release storms. This has been a beaut.

I have had all the issues that others have been reporting but in following the advice on restoring etc somewhere along the way my calendar got messed up - important dates went missing. I have since recovered by re entering what I could remember and it hasn't happened again.

I have reset and restored the iPad2 numerous times and still suffer from slow response. I am about to try downloading every app again from the App Store, to see if I have a rogue app somewhere.

You have made some great posts and I do not envy the scale of challenge you have supporting what has become a real problem child. I wish you luck and recommend you keep posting your updates, even in the face of some of the unhelpful feedback.

alan

Skooty Alan wrote:

John

I am only syncing my iPad to my iMac. I retired 2 years ago after 43 years in IT - I startef in my teens as a trainee programmer, 6 weeks after Mr Armstrong stepped off a lunar lander. I have weathered all sorts of upgrade/ release storms. This has been a beaut.

I have had all the issues that others have been reporting but in following the advice on restoring etc somewhere along the way my calendar got messed up - important dates went missing. I have since recovered by re entering what I could remember and it hasn't happened again.

I have reset and restored the iPad2 numerous times and still suffer from slow response. I am about to try downloading every app again from the App Store, to see if I have a rogue app somewhere.

You have made some great posts and I do not envy the scale of challenge you have supporting what has become a real problem child. I wish you luck and recommend you keep posting your updates, even in the face of some of the unhelpful feedback.

alan

Please don't get me wrong - I'm not doubting you have had problems. It's just not been one that I have personally seen or my clients have been screaming about =) In fact, you now have me worried a little bit, because as I may or may not have mentioned - a large percentage of my clients are in the legal field and a missed court date is a lost case! I don't even know what to do to alert them to the fact that this *could* be happening to them. sigh

It sounds just like the notes problem. That HAS happened a lot. I have lost notes, clients have lost notes.

I found no work-around for the lost notes either. The geniuses were stumped too.

If anyone else has any ideas about the notes (or the calendar), that would be very helpful. One guy we do work for lost several years worth of notes and the backups from his computer or the cloud/would not restore them. They are just gone. Unfortunately, he was one who lost a bunch of photos too, so he's beyond mad. He went as far as to blame me personally. =( I have zero help for him, nor has 3 or 4 trips to the Apple store.

John

This is is probably not helpful, but what messed up my calendar was a restore. It didn't bring back the iPad completely. There were other minor issues with wallpapers etc, but the the killer was the calendar not backing up and syncing properly.

I hope I'm not just giving you another headache. In the multiple times I have restored the iPad it has only happened the once.

alan

I updated to 8.1, now my windows PC and iPad 2 are on the same version! Like everyone else my iPad 2 is barely usable, Safari is the biggest problem, super slow loading pages. I have tried resets, factory restores, uninstalling every app I could, changing every recommended setting, still running super slow. I am afraid this is it, it won't get any better from here. The only thing I could do was to take back a seven day old new iMac to BB, the heck with you Apple, I will wait on buying any new hardware, I am ticked.

A friend was having the same issues with slowness on his iPad mini and tried the recommendation @edmundseet suggested. We were both VERY surprised this worked. It sounds weird but it's worth a shot. Good luck!:

My iPad3 severe lag was resolved. this not only helped in Safari but my entire iPad3 and all its applications (including Facebook) regained much smootheness.

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 regained 80% of its original zappiness, like magic. All other apps can scroll smoother again.

I'm a happy iPad3 (iOS8) owner once more

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

I had this problem too and tried many of the workarounds - reboots, shutting off animations in the OS, etc.

Finally last night, I backed up to my laptop - DID A FACTORY RESET AND SET UP AS NEW.

Then I added apps back one at a time through the app store (which remembered I had purchased them)

So far, IT IS WORKING MUCH BETTER.

Good luck!

Well it just happens to be the signature on my email - not something I am adding. But some of us are trying to help the world be a better, safer place.

Has anyone else had the upgrade to IOS8 lose all their PDFs saved in iBooks? Years of work has gone. I tried to recover an earlier backup but while it showed the docs briefly they were lost in seconds????

Any helpful comments welcome

alan

no, you need to explain. Having read the terms of use yet again 0 I don't see how any of my responses are in breach. However, an explanation of your view would be helpful to me, and probably many of the community here

alan

Skooty Alan wrote:

Ah? you didn't seem to disapprove of startraveller trying to conduct personal business on the discussion by trying to acquire other folks iPads for personal gain?

Where's the "personal gain" with me paying for shipping for an iPad 2 that a poster here says is no good, that Apple has destroyed and is going into the trash? ... LOL ...

Forgive me, I have to pick myself off the floor ... :-) ...

After reading almost 50 pages of messages and trying to manually restore to iOS 7, I am officially giving up. I have decided to wait like other sheeple for apple to fix this doo-do. Sorry, that's the most precise term I could find.

Hey JohnMhoyt, I read some of the other comments you've on written here and you're so dead-right. iOS 8 on iPad 2 is the bgigest fubar, if I've ever seen one and 50 pages worth of people complaining is even worse!

Rahul

At this time, there us no conceivable way to revert any iOS 8 upgraded iPad 2 or 3 as Apple has removed the earlier iOS 7 versions off of their download servers.

So, there is really nothing you can do now, but wait and hope another iOS 8.x update is in the pipeline and forthcoming sooner than later.

rahulfrommurrieta wrote:

Hey JohnMhoyt, I read some of the other comments you've on written here and you're so dead-right. iOS 8 on iPad 2 is the bgigest fubar, if I've ever seen one and 50 pages worth of people complaining is even worse!

Rahul

I wish this were not the case.. It's something so many of us are fighting with every single day.

Today I took a friend of mine (not a client this time) back to a completely stock and fresh load of 8.1. Zero Apps other than what comes on it. Turned off everything from motion to every single background update, etc. He says it is MUCH MUCH better (he's been dealing with the slowness for several weeks now and was very frustrated). Anyway, he's back to maybe 75% of what it was with iOS 7x on it. Just stinks that we had to take it all the way back and disable everything to get that much performance back...

He's still saying the clipboard doesn't work (well known bug), and safari takes a long time to load pages. Another issue he has that many others do too is that if you open two pages in safari, go the second tab, browse on that, then back to the first, it has to reload the entire page each time you open that first tab.

The trick for some is to leave the first tab open, but don't use it.. Put the page you open most frequently on the 2nd tab, then never go back to the first time. You won't have to wait for the load.... I can't find any other work-around for that.

Well, the issue with the tab reloading every time you switch back to it can be somewhat fixed by going to settings, Safari, and turning off "open new tabs in background." But I am sure you tried that.

Anyway, I will look you up after a new update.

Does Apple read any of these messages? A lot of people are frustrated about the iOS 8 update having ruined their ipads. If there's no official response then it confirms the update is designed to make users buy new hardware. Pretty bad for a product I purchased less than 2 years ago. Think I'll stear clear of Apple for my next purchase and go with Android.