safari iOS 8.1 freeze and slow

I grant you that disabling JavaScript does improve some page load speeds but, as I've mentioned way back, you lose all JavaScript functionality and quite a number of websites render crankily or just don't work properly- Try BBC News - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

I am very disappointed with Apple. 8.1 Safari is a huge blunder and a Apple should bury their head in the sand after releasing this sorry excuse of a browser. I am going to give Apple 2 weeks to get this disaster fixed, and if they don't fix it, I will be forced to pull all my iPads that my service and install techs are currently using and replace them with a different product.

I'd never really considered the business aspect of all this.

As a home user the iPad has always been just a toy, but I can now see that a crippled Safari becomes a money loser for business users!

If that's the case then a switch to another manufacturer is imperative as I can't see Apple fixing this anytime soon - indeed if ever at all!

Hi Geoff, picking up on your point about Apple still flogging iPad 1 minis on their store.

Here's what they have to say about the A5 chip; Powerful processing and fast graphics make everything quick, from launching apps to browsing the web. And its power-efficient design delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.

Well, what does that say about Apple?

If I were in the States I'd want to be part of any class action against Apple for misleading me into buying an iPad 1 mini,

Hi Geoff,

Actually this isn't true - I have just purchased two new iPhone 5c's with A6 processors for my daughters and they run smooth and with no problems - there is something not optimised for the A5 chip - in my experience anyway.

I have a 5S phone and that flies - like you say the faster processors could just be hiding the inefficient code.

I have a vision impairment so use the built in Voice Over feature in ios. This puts extra load on the cpu.

Devices with an A5 or A6 chip worked well withVoice Over and ios7 but are almost unusable with ios8, the slow responses clearly show the older chips are struggling with ios8.

My mini with A7 chip works reasonably smoothly, but has the usual Safari bugs.

I guess it depends what the ipad is used for and what performance expectations are.i wonder how many gen1 minis have been returned as faulty?

I fixed my WiFi problems on Xfinity. There is a problem with one or more settings in their modem that makes the Apple devices freeze up in Safari. Luckily, Comcast changed it from the factory defaults, so you can go back pretty easy. No changes on the Apple side.

1) Unplug the power from your personal router.

2) Press the reset button on the back of your still-running Xfinity modem with a pen for a good long and slow count of 30 seconds, then let go. This will load the factory defaults.

3) Go away for at least 5 minutes, more if possible.

4) Plug your personal router back in.

THats it. Before, Safari would get stuck loading pages, getting worse and worse until it would stop responding. I'd have to cycle power on my routers just to get anything for an hour or so. After, it's been working great for weeks now.

Can I assume, from the lack of further postings, that everyone is now accepting/happy with the degraded performance iOS 8.x has brought to our devices?

I wish I could be so forgiving! - It's just that every time I use my iPad to surf the web it just opens up old wounds!

I guess all the execs at Apple must believe " WE'RE BIG and you're small" and that's the natural order of things?

STill very very unhappy with NOmfix from Apple...notice how the stupid capital letters still type i. safari on this post. I am so sick of trying everything to get a better wifi connection with this **** ipad...forgetting networks...rebooting modems, etc etc. Apple *****.

I have had the same disappointing experiences with my iPad3 and have tried everything I can think of to get it fixed.... .to no avail. Apple doesn't seem to care any more whether we are happy with our Apple products. I miss the Apple that Steve created and has since gone away.

NOt that i can tell 😟 notice that the NO is still capitalizing on safari wit this response. 8.2 also doe not work with the facebook app. When on your newsfeed, if you click on any one of the options at the top, friends, comments...you can only click one time otherwise it doesn't do anything next time you click. You have to close out the app, restart. Thrn clck on the option at the top...then in the next screen that pulls up, continue to click the next comment to keep going...or you have to close out each time.

APple is too proud of their watch to fix anything else. Poor Steve Job's would be so ashamed..

I'm having this same issue on my iPhone 5. I just got the 8.2 software update yesterday and after I loaded it, Safari hasn't been working right since. I thought it was just me at first, but apparently, I'm not alone. I hope that something can be fixed about this soon because it's really annoying.

i loaded a 64 GB iPad 3 with 53 GB free with 8.1.3, as a new machine when it didn't work with any of the other fixes. Resetting would buy about 3 or 4 minutes of marginal Safari performance, then degrade again. The new machine worked for less than 24 hours , then it degraded to unacceptable speed. Finally after months, converted to Chrome. Not as good as Safari on iOS 7, but at least Chrome is usable

Dear Momolorient, dear Safari / Webkit developers,

I still use my 8 GB iPad 2 with iOS 9.3.4 on a daily basis...!

For most simple tasks and webbrowsing it is still quite useable, but it is definatelly reaching its end of life.

The one thing that it really cannot handle anymore is web sites with a lot of javascript running in the background for tracking and advertisement purposes. E.g. articles on nytimes.com.

My usual approach is to switch to Safari Reader mode, or to send the page to the separate Readability app. It helps a bit, and offers at least a superior reading experience.

Today, I tried another approach: disabling Javascript. And to my surprise, the nytimes.com articles opened quite fast...!

The downside of diabling javascript is that it is an all-or-nothing approach on iOS.

Many websites won't work at all without Javascript...

On the one hand, I can blame such website developers for abusing javascript too much.

On the other hand, I can blame Apple for the limited control iOS users have on javascript.

Suggestion:

What I would like in to have in the Safari interface, is an option to enable/disable Javascript only for the current site.

Of course, this setting is then applied any time the user visits the website in the future. :-)

OH thanks, MichelPM.

This was my first contribution to Apple communities ever. I expected Apple to scan these communities, and hoped for some constructive feedback of other users on my suggestion...

Again, thanks for the advise. I will forward my suggestion to Apple then. All my hopes for any feedback will then be lost though. ;-)