IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

I Have had a problem with the backup during the migration. I mentioned on the discussion a few days ago and wondered if anyoneelse had experienced the same. I appear to have lost all the PDFs I had in iBooks. None of my backups appeared to fail during any of the restores I have done. So, I tried to recover an earlier backup and for the briefest of seconds i saw the documents appear in silhouette and then they disappeared. Has anyoneElle experienced this and more importantly can anyone explain what has happened and if there is a way I can actually recover the documents

alan

Buy a new device? Not from Apple! After the iOS8 update to my iPad 2, I've had it. This morning Safari crashed seven times and mail, six times. I switched off my iPad indefinitely and sure as heck will NOT be purchasing a new Apple device! Time to go elsewhere. I know with technology comes problems, no doubt, but not so ridiculous.

Hi, I always backup onto my iMac using iTunes. It has always worked well. The documents on iBook vanished sometime after upgrading to IOS8. I tried to load an old backup as I said in previous post and the docs appeared in silhouette and then the iBooks screen changed to a background of gradient monochrome rows and the docs had vanished. Unfortunately, I have restored the iPad2 many time in the previous few weeks. The backup with the documents may we'll have been an IOS7 backup. Any help much appreciated

IIt is frustrating, I agree. But the iPad has been a rock solid device up until now. Apple have obviously screwed up with IOS 8. A couple of not well planned attempts have been made to recover the situation. From my contacts the problems are wide spread amongst iPad 2 users. So, I believe Apple will be trying hard to recover the situation and their previous good reputation with the iPad. Dont give up just yet!!

I just joined this thread and have not read through the entire thing, but have also experienced the incredible slow-down on our iPad2 since recently upgrading to 8.1 AND Yosemite on the MacBook Pro. Last night I noticed on the iPad that the history tabs in Safari were stacked up like cord wood. I am no techie, but here is what I believe is going on: All of the search history/cookies generated on the MacBook are not only available to our other devices through iCloud, but are actually being pushed over to those devices, thereby jamming them up. I cleared the history and website data from the iPad, and viola, it's back to its same ole zippy self. However, as I was doing this I received a warning that all the history would also be cleared from our other devices connected to iCloud. Sure enough, when I went back to the MacBook, the history was cleared out.

Sooo... the TEMPORARY FIX is to go to SETTINGS/SAFARI on the iPad, scroll down on the right to CLEAR HISTORY AND WEBSITE DATA, read the warning in the pop-up window, and select CLEAR. I supposed this can also be down from any of your devices hooked up to iCloud with the same effect. What I don't know yet is how often this will have to be done. Hopefully Apple will offer a way to selectively turn off the feature of history sharing for any devices that cannot handle it.

Apple needs to address the problems caused to iPad 2 by ios 8. My pad is slow and clunky, crashing often. I regularly have to use my iPhone 5s instead. If the ios is not made compatible, I shall abandon the iPad, and if I do replace it, I shall do so with a non Apple product. I am sure there are huge numbers of so far loyal customers who must be questioning the lack of support from Apple on this matter.

Apple will show their support by releasing an update which may or may not address every effected iPad2 owners issues, but seeing how many issues people have complained of and how many have been solved with a basic reinstall, reset or simple troubleshooting tips, then I doubt that every effected user will ever be happy. There are similar people I have come across who have been affected with the latest Android ad Windows phones and tablets.

Cheers

Pete

I totally agree what you said. During the last days I came to the point throwing my ipad2 against a wall. 😠

The way it works after the update is more then just annoying. In case this isn't solved in a short while I will leave Apple mobile devices and buy myself some alternative, although this should be solved by Apple. 😠😠

Apple will show their support by releasing an update which may or may not address every effected iPad2 owners issues, but seeing how many issues people have complained of and how many have been solved with a basic reinstall, reset or simple troubleshooting tips, then I doubt that every effected user will ever be happy. There are similar people I have come across who have been affected with the latest Android ad Windows phones and tablets.

Cheers

Pete

LIke I wrote in a similar discussion: Apple's update policy is less than optimal. Every user with a compatible device will recieve a notification that an update is available, regardless the performance, and even if not all new features are available (such as handoff, airdrop etc). Before updating an OS, the user should be made aware of limitations and possible performance issues. Apple also should loosen it's restrictions to roll back, at least to the last OS version that was installed. I cannot believe that nobody was aware of these problems during beta testing. In the long term, it will be better for Apple to avoid frustration of customers rather than show off with statistics.

I went to the Genius Bar yesterday and took in my ipad2. The genius was very nice and agreed that my iPad was not working properly. He said to try wiping it and setting up as new, add back apps one at a time and see what happens. I tried that but saw no change after setting up as new with no apps added. I told him that at least with Windows I can go back to the previous OS if the hardware can't handle the new OS. Bottom line, I now have a IPad i can't sell or use or revert to iOS 7. I have reported this to Apple using the appropriate channels.

Fransaplast wrote:

The way it works after the update is more then just annoying.

Have you gone through the troubleshooting methodology of resetting your iPad to its factory default state, using iTunes on your computer?

Maxipeg wrote:

Every user with a compatible device will recieve a notification that an update is available, regardless the performance, and even if not all new features are available (such as handoff, airdrop etc). Before updating an OS, the user should be made aware of limitations and possible performance issues.

LOL ... let me take care of that for you here ... :-) ...

"Listen up all you users out there. Whenever there is a major upgrade, NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS has there ever been an upgrade that didn't have to have some issues fixed afterwards. Be warned now and forever!"

OKAY ... now that we got that out of the way, can we get back to the TERMS OF USE for this forum?

Apple also should loosen it's restrictions to roll back, at least to the last OS version that was installed.

When we are already dealing with the standard types of issues here that always come with major upgrades, I have no idea why you want to create a NIGHTMARE situation and create all sorts of HAVOC by having people roll back and create another whole level of problems! Our goal here is to solve some problems and not suggest another whole level of nightmarish problems!

StarTraveler, what do you think an average iDevice user will do if he gets a notification that an update is available? Apple products happen to provide an excellent user experience out of the box, so why not expect it from an update that is endoresed by Apple? Not everybody is looking for user experiences that are posted in forums such as this one, and don't tell me that at Apple they didn't notice issues with the iPad 2/3 running iOS8 before the final release.

Besides, what kind of HAVOC and NIGHTMARES do you expect from rolling back to a previous OS? When iOS4 wrecked my iPhone 3G, that was a nightmare. I would have been happy to be able to return to iOS3

Maxipeg wrote:

StarTraveler, what do you think an average iDevice user will do if he gets a notification that an update is available? Apple products happen to provide an excellent user experience out of the box, so why not expect it from an update that is endoresed by Apple?

In answering that we look at this from the standpoint of the 500 million iOS devices that are out there. From that standpoint, you'll find the vast and overwhelming majority have no problems at all, and everything works just fine for them. What you have is a very small minority who run into the various and inevitable problems that pop up with major upgrades. I would say you're dealing with probably way less than ONE PERCENT who have encountered a problem of one kind or another. Of that very small minority, you'll have a significant number who will be able to fix those problems themselves, as we've already seen here. Then you'll find others in that very small minority who will have Apple Support help them. Finally you'll have a very tiny amount who will benefit by a series of revisions, which are typically done after a major upgrade.

NOW ... the question here is to the issue of whether Apple acts to intrude upon the 99% who will never have any problems at all, to deal with the less than ONE PERCENT who will run into problems. The thing that any normal person would do is ACT ON THE BASIS OF THE 99% ... and then subsequently respond specifically to the less than ONE PERCENT who are having difficulties.

NO ONE in their right mind ... would ever in this life design their own personal actions in this life to "acting out" on the basis of what goes on with LESS THAN ONE PERCENT -- and neither would a big company.

THEREFORE Apple is doing EXACTLY what it should be doing, and that is acting on the basis of the 99% while being prepared to address INDIVIDUALLY the problems of the less than one percent.

I see NO PROBLEMS in the way Apple is dealing with this business of providing upgrades.

Besides, what kind of HAVOC and NIGHTMARES do you expect from rolling back to a previous OS? When iOS4 wrecked my iPhone 3G, that was a nightmare. I would have been happy to be able to return to iOS3

It's a numbers thing ... you deal with the very small minority who are having problems and you solve them, but you DO NOT add another entire level of problems from people bricking their machines from going backwards, and being insecure from going backwards, and the incompatibility of apps that automatically update, and they now don't work any longer from going backwards. That's taking the NUMBERS presently there for existing problems and then creating about TEN TIMES MORE PROBLEMS from the bad and unsupported process of going backwards.

Again, it's purely NUMBERS ... which means you will do nothing but dramatically INCREASE user troubles from doing this, which then falls back on Apple for even allowing such a thing (which, of course, they never will).