Q: IPAD2 very slow after IOS 8 upgrade

I went back into the discussion and found the post. It was keithfrommarietta who posted the information in October.

Sent from my iPad

Yeah, I talked to him, too ... and then posted his results to many other threads. Here's one I started for him, based on his good results ...

iPad 2 and iOS 8.0.2 Problems

Background app refresh was introduced with iOS 7

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

Good summary of what is going on...

http://www.technologytell.com/apple/142771/ios-8-os-x-yosemite-bugginess/

I am going to Genius Bar today with my iPad 2.  I will post what I find out.

I've always posted as many of the Apple Support documents that I can with this process of resetting to factory default, because backups are important, and understanding them is important. The two kinds of backups that Apple provides are different from one another, and the iTunes route is the most complete. I'll post them here so you can see what is saved and what is not saved.

Now, in order to answer your question, it would depend on which route you picked for doing your backup, and then if you took any measures for those things that would not be backed up.

Choosing an iOS Backup Method (Should I Use iTunes or iCloud to back up ...)

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262

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

Create and Delete iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Backups in iTunes

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

iOS: Troubleshooting Encrypted Backups

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5162

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 know that there are certain things that are saved and others that are not. Here's an Apple Support document on how a PDF document can be deleted from one device and still be on another one, or on your Mac. Perhaps it has been set up that way on yours and you can find them. I don't know ... just throwing something out there ...

iBooks: Viewing, syncing, saving, and printing PDFs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

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.

MMany thanks for the response, I will have a look over the weekend!

alan

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.