iOS 8 has ruined my ipad2

Typing this from my ipad2 64gb 8gb free and dont have much problems maybe you need to reboot or have data running in the background causing issues

I had an apple phone tech help me do a restore and reinstall IOS 8. I'm not sure it's totally back to normal, but almost. Better than investing in a new tablet. I recommend giving it a try. Otherwise, it was just a doorstop.

My IPad is the same , so frustratingly slow and freezes constantly , wish I had'nt done the update .Apple have a lot to answer for just reading a small amount of the hundreds of pages with so many people having the same problems with IOS 8 and just because I did not take the extended warranty and iPad more than 12 months old you are on your own even though it's Apple that has caused the problem 😠

I can relate to this . Don't feel bad you never paid for the Apple support. I did pay for it used it, now it's expired and I am having the same problems you are. They keep coming up with updates and this is the first time I have had problems. I love my iPad. It has been my main computer until this. I am very discouraged.

Not likely. Once you upgrade, you cannot downgrade.

I did mean IOS 8. 🙂 I had the same problem as others...after the upgrade, my iPad 2 was slow and glitchy. I called Apple support yesterday and the tech walked me through restoring it factory settings than the re-installation of IOS 8. I am very pleased with the result.

You can still get Apple Support ... go to the Support page ... :-) ...

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

Apple has really screwed us over. Our iPads have been rendered useless by the new OS and now they want to charge for their error. I'm lucky I have Samsung S4. Android phone. I'll use that until Apple gets their act together RIP Steve Jobs

I Have the same problem with my Ipad 2 and IOS 8

I think you'll actually find out that Apple has not rendered your device useless ... :-) ...

To test out that "theory" of yours, just do a full restore to factory defaults and don't reload your own data on there just yet. Just get it back into factory-supplied mode. THEN ... try out the operation of the iPad, just as it came from the factory ... "fresh". If you find a problem at that point ... without your own data which has accumulated over a long period of use ... then ... it's that particular operation (that it's doing wrong) you need to take to Apple Support.

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

On the other hand, if you operate it in factory default mode and find it's operating as it should, then you'll have your answer ... :-) ...

Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings

Again, don't restore your own data just yet, after the factory default is re-established. Check it out ... first ... in that operational mode.

See my previous post where I was saying to restore your iPad to a factory default condition ... and then check it out in that mode, before restoring your own data. That will tell you if there are any specific problems with iOS 8.0.2 .

Well, if it does check out okay (in the overall operation) ... then you can restore your data. That personal data shouldn't afftect the system operation itself. I say it "shouldn't" and that's the idea ... but ... there is an outside chance that there is something going on there that we might not understand. I'm just saying that by restoring it totally to factory default, you get to see how it operates completely and totally as Apple intended, without any of your stuff. THEN ... restore your stuff and see what happens. It should operate the same way, as in factory default mode ... hopefully. That's the theory, anyway ... :-) ...

Now, if it doesn't (and I knonw this is a lot of trouble doing this way, but you're finding out something when you do it) ... then you go back to factory default ... once again ... and you find out that it operates okay ... then and only then ... would I try to manually restore everything one by one. Your pictures are probably already backed up (maybe on your computer, maybe only on iCloud ... I don't know). You don't have to worry about your e-mail, as that is all on someone else's server. Any "notes" ... you can reconstruct yourself, if you need to (you can actually e-mail out all your notes, if you want to). Any individual apps that have personal data ... well, maybe you might have to e-mail that info off to your e-mail account, upload it to Dropbox, or manually write it down.

But, I really don't think you'll need to resort to all this "manual restoration" ... it's just your "last stop" if nothing else works. And ... yes, all your apps (that actual apps themselves and not your personal data on the apps) will all be available to manually download them once again.

Hopefully you'll simply find that you can restore your personal data from your backup and everything is okay. That's the preferred outcome ... :-) ...