safari iOS 8.1 freeze and slow

Very disappointed with Apple latest upgrade to 8.1. It slowed my iPad down to a point where it is frustrating to be waiting for things to load.

i Can no longer recommend anyone to buy an Apple product because of the problems they are having.

THere are a lot of problems I'm having with this upgrade. example....look at the first word of this sentence (there). Two Caps?? Look at the word (example),

why hy is it not capital letter. And look just what happened in this last sentence. This iPad thinks it's smarter than I am and jus added (hy) on its own.

safari (no cap again), does not work on a lot of Internet sites.

this will be my last Apple product

very very disappointed in you Apple

Steveo44 wrote:

i Can no longer recommend anyone to buy an Apple product because of the problems they are having.

It's too bad that you'll lose out to Apple's excellent products that the other 500 million users are going to continue to enjoy!

example....look at the first word of this sentence (there). Two Caps?? Look at the word (example),

why hy is it not capital letter.

This has been discussed many times before. It's related to problems with the forum software. AND ... it also serves as an EXAMPLE of how easily people think a problem is related to one thing, when it is really related to something completely different ... :-) ...

PatritoWorks7 wrote:

I unclicked Safari from iCloud drive and the ™ Mac performance is back.

You're the wrong forum in this thread. You're referring to a Macintosh computer, while we're dealing with iPads ... :-) ... This is the iPad forum.

I Have just today bought a brand new iPad mini with 8.1 installed. I took it out of box, entered wifi password and the first web site I tried froze safari and then home screen unresponsive so shut down required.

this is exactly same issues as my ipad4 and iphone5. My ipad2 on ios6 is working beautifully. I guess I am one of the tiny minority of unlucky customers? Yeah right.

Hi Geoff37,

It might be that the iPad Mini itself is the issue here. (I know you said you have the same problem on the iPhones)

Just yesterday I went into the apple store complaining that my replacement iPad Air (the original 3 month iPad Air was replaced because the battery was never able to hold a full charge) screen was not always responsive after installing iOS 8.1 and suddenly the lightning socket was did not want to connect to charge and sync.

The apple store bloke just touched the iPad screen and after two flick of his finger agreed with me the screen was playing up. (I was lucky the iPad Air played up then!) So your issue may not be the new iOS but the device itself In the case of my original iPad Air, I had iOS 8.0.1 on it and it worked very well with no issues at all.

I still think that Apple does produce a good product. My iPhone 3 GS is still on its original battery from 2009.

I Have a new iPad air 2. I had the previous model. Not one single issue. This one is really p..... Me off. It won't connect. Took 10 minutes to get to this page. My Touch ID won't work keep deleting and re entering fingers. Generally really slow. Same thing happening on my iPhone 6 plus. Very very disappointed. Apple diagnostic said it was crashing. Why??? Can't they get this right after so many years. Had no problem also with my iPhone 5S

I Know six people with an iPad, some older models some new. They are ALL having similar issues.thanks for suggestion but seems unlikely three different devices exhibit exactly same problems. I have been using mini bought new today and Safari is freezing etc same as my other 8.1 devices

I am in the same position. iPad air and iPad mini both made redundant by this upgrade. Still can't believe that Apple are continuing to bury their heads in the sand and as of yet I've still to see any official acknowledgment about how they intend to fix the multiple problems which are being experienced by many, many users.

Was going to buy another iPad in the next few weeks for the family but now decided to by a Microsoft surface instead. Apple need to pull their socks up. They've lost me as a customer and I am sure there will be plenty of others who'll be making the same choice. An organisation going backwards.

Same problems here. Systemic across multiple generations of iPads and have also experienced it on several iPhone 6 and 6 plus models. All devices running the latest iOS 8.1

I have over 150 iPads and 300+ iPhones deployed throughout the enterprise for mission critical applications (CRM, Remote ERP access, etc).. We internally evaluated iOS 8 for a month before allowing it through our MDM. It seemed OK to deploy and many of the quirks were related to features we don't use or allow anyway. The safari issues did not manifest themselves during our evaluation. The iOS 7 launch last year was fairly painless. These safari problems in iOS 8 have caused our help desk to spend hours a day helping users and fielding complaints that we can't offer a solution to. I'm getting more and more impatient by the day. I feel like we will have to do a massive deployment with an iOS 7 downgrade if this isn't fixed soon. Should that happen, I can't even quantify the impact of spending hundreds of man hours and the loss of productivity from our end users.

IPad air 2 owner here. Had an ipad 2 for years. Looked forward to the upgrade to the air 2.

Ive had it for 2 weeks and im also getting the same issues with safari.

Safari has either caused a reboot or frozen 7 or 8 times.

And some links dont work, usually near the top of the page, especially with google searches. This happens at random.

Im also getting the poor rendering scroll issue where its just grey while you scroll and then renders in when you stop whicj is driving me nuts. If you kill safari and reopen it it goes away but it comes back. It seems worse on forums for some reason such as vbulletin forums.

Thats a bad bug because you dont know when to stop scrolling if nothing is rendered!

Dreadful software release by Apple, disappointing. For now ill be using chrome...

declan186 wrote:

Still can't believe that Apple are continuing to bury their heads in the sand and as of yet I've still to see any official acknowledgment about how they intend to fix the multiple problems which are being experienced by many, many users.

I don't know who gave you the idea that Apple EVER announces in a press conference or on an Apple website that they are going to issue fixes. Apple has NEVER done this ... so I don't know why you seem to be expecting that procedure now.

What Apple does is take Apple Support trouble reports, then analyzes to see if anything happens to be related to a bug ... and if so ... they work on a fix which is released in one of the upcoming revisions. They NEVER announce what they are working on or when a revision is coming out or what is contained in the revision. BUT, by Apple's "history" ... they always fix the bugs, if there are any.

AND ... by the way ... as to whether there are bugs or not ... from what I've seen in the last 30 years for all computer systems and devices and companies ... there's never a major upgrade that is released where there are not some bug fixes coming up in the next revision. That's just the way it goes ... :-) ...

An organisation going backwards.

I don't know how you ascertain that Apple is going backwards, when they have done the EXACT SAME THING for the iOS devices for the last seven years, without exception. There's no "going backwards" here ... it's the same process that happens every time for a major upgrade. They issue the upgrade, some users have problems, those problems are analyzed and Apple releases revisions.

I think you are merely unfamiliar with how this process works.

PixelTrawler wrote:

For now ill be using chrome...

Have you done the reset to factory default condition, to see if that cures it for you? Many users on this forum have reported good results from that.

AND ... by the way ... all browsers on the iOS devices use the same rendering engine as Safari ... they have been required to do so.

fxerolixus wrote:

I feel like we will have to do a massive deployment with an iOS 7 downgrade if this isn't fixed soon.

How do you downgrade to iOS 7 when Apple is not signing that version any more?

Should that happen, I can't even quantify the impact of spending hundreds of man hours and the loss of productivity from our end users.

Are you evaluating iOS 8.1.1 right now?

Just an update: I thought I wasn't experiencing the issue on my iPhone 6 Plus, but I am. So, on both my iPad Air and iPhone 6 Plus, I am unable to click links unless I zoom in. The zoom on my iPhone is set to standard.

Bugs and minor issues I can handle. Fundamental flaws of the type being reported by hundreds of people is inexcusable. I fail to understand how these issues were not picked up in any testing phases.

The fact that I can't have an option to roll back to iOS 7 is also a shambolic decision by Apple.

You carry on defending Apple to the hilt though.