Q: 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

Hay Pete,

Lousy idea. I didn't hijack anything..

Sent from my iPad

Here's the thing about that ... the complainers would end up hijacking his thread! ... LOL ...

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.

If you want a "user" to suggest a "solution" ... it's going to be to reset your device to its factory default condition, using your iTunes program on your computer, which will give you a clean install. And then, don't restore your backup just yet and run the machine through its paces. Whatever problem you find at that point, then that's valid for bringing it up with Apple Support and opening a ticket on it. They may have a solution for it right now, or they may check the hardware and find a problem there, or they may log it as a definite problem and present it to the engineers to examine thoroughly. That's what you do.

And you don't anticipate or guess ahead of time "what the outcome is going to be" for all these steps, because no one knows or can predict it for "your particular machine".

Back up and Restore your iOS Device with iCloud or iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

iTunes: About iOS Backups

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946

Use iTunes to Restore your iOS Device to Factory Settings

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

For Apple Support, go here ... if a "user's answer" is no help to you ...

Apple Support

http://www.apple.com/support/

Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

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.

What troubleshooting steps have you taken to date? Have you searched these forums for the fixes that worked for so many other iPad2 users?

Pete

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

If 5.1 is working for you - why change?  I should have NEVER installed iOS 8.

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.