Q: safari iOS 8.1 freeze and slow

Have iPad Air (not the newest one) and was thrilled that ios 8.1 finally seemed to have fixed my problem of staying connected using the 5 ghz wifi band....but now notice that Safari has problems instead....clinking links seem frozen at times when searching; although the book marks work fine....just get stuck tapping away with nothing happening until I give up and switch over to Chrome which works with no problems....but really!  Chrome would work better on an iPad than Apple's own Safari??  APPLE! Where's your pride?! 

Getting the same problems with Safari here on an iPad Air (first gen). Seen these issues with 8, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.1.

* None of the links on a page respond to touch. Scroll the page up or down a little, links becoming responsive.

* Blocky page scrolling - scroll down and you get a page of white space briefly before it renders fully again.

* Hangs on entering text into a text box. This may be a touch issue - if I accidentally touch another part of the screen while inputting text? Safari hangs an dies after a few minutes or I have to kill it.  This may only occur when auto-suggest is suggesting a word, not sure.

iOS 8.1 additionally gives me complete crashes and reboots on top.

I've tried all sorts of resets including a factory reset and restore from iTunes. No joy. Tried disabling various features in Safari too, still no joy.

Same issues here. I reported them to apple here https://www.apple.com/feedback/ under iPad. Suggest all here do the same, since there appears to be no definitive user solution yet, it's important the developer team know about all such issues and can work on a bug fix for us.

FWIW, I tried resetting network settings, then a reset (hold down power button and home button until the iPad restarts and you see the Apple logo), so far this seems to have fixed the above issues for me, so definitely worth a try at least.

A little update.

-     Tried restoring to 7.1.2 without success on my iPad3

-     Restored 8.1

Overall the system seems more responsive including safari though not responding as well as iSO 7 did. Still having some problems with other apps. For example facebook often has trouble loading images or videos.

At least it's starting to look like a software problem and not the fact that the hardware cannot handle the new OS requirements. I'm also encouraged by the fact that it also seems to affect people with the first generation iPad Air which really suggests that it's a software problem and not hardware.

Come on Apple, i'm pretty sure you have the ressources and enough old iPads lying around to figure this out.

My ipad air is continuosly freezing when pressing on search links in safari, since upgrading to 8 and 8.1 still hasnt resolved this.  is it possible to evert back to 7 until problems are fixed.

Unfortunately, apple doesn't support downgrades. There is a little window where they will allow it after a new release but the window has already been closed. There is no way that it can be done as far as I know and believe me I searched for hours...

Thanks for confirming Nuf@n.  Doyou know if Apple have een acknowledged the freeze problem?

I don't sorry. I doubt they'll acknoledge it unless they have a fix ready.

Thanks again.......fingers crossed for a fix soon otherwise i shall be exploring APPLE

Competitors.

Hi guys,

I have an Ipad Air 1 and after testing ios 8.1 Safari performance for a while I've observed that the slow/blocky scrolling happens when you have more than one tab open. Try it for yourself and post some results. Use only one tab.

It's by no means a solution but at least it stopped driving me crazy or breaking the Ipad in half.

Hope it helps

I See no change in iOS 8.1. All the bugs remain.

terry, UK

ios 8 has turned my iPad into £500 tray as that's all it's good for at the moment

eeverything is either slow or unresponsive and I cant see any changes that were for the good

What worked for me was to go into Settings on the iPad and turn off iCloud.

Hello.

I just purchased the new iPad Air 2 wi-fi, cellular, 128,  last night and I was totally appalled within 45 minutes.  I have the newest IOS and I am so angry I could barely sleep. You know how when you get a new apple item you can't put it down?  Well I was so frustrated I put my gold iPad Air back in the box within several hours of opening it.   Can't wait until the Apple Store opens to take this thing back.

Touch screen becomes non responsive....No response at all to multiple to tappings....just hangs.  Certain letters on the keyboard, including space bar does nothing.  It lagged during initial connection to iTunes and that made my eyebrows rise right away.  It froze while syncing...took forever! 

While using safari, the buttons, links  won't respond.  I have to back out and start searching again.  So nuts!

Other apps freeze,  wi-fi disconnects.  The touch screen stutters, putters and stalls.  Overall, does not seem to have that patented Apple fluidity.  Driving me bonkers!

I have no interest in clicking my heels and standing on my head while I touch this, and hold that in a bogus effort to fix the bugginess of new and improved iPad Air 2.  I am really frustrated and disappointed in Apple. 

I have the iPad 3 (retina) which I have not updated to 8 and it works like a charm.  I just bought the new iPad Air because I am a true Apple fan.....excuse me, I was.  Ugh!