Ipad really slow after update to iOS 9

No.

SInce iOS 7, I had to turn down or off all of the motion graphics.

Neither the iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPad 4 models have powerful enough CPU or graphics power to handle those effects from the moment those effects were introduced.

I have even turned these effects off on my iPad Pro to keep it ss speedy as possible, but left the background app refresh active.

I am used to not having to deal with all of the fancy eye candy on my iPads.

I want optimal performance out of my iDevices, NOT cool and neat animated graphics that suck up CPU, graphics and RAM resources.

My iPad 2 and 3 ARE working much, MUCH better after I did the restore procedure I use.

i am NOT an exception to the cases posted here.

I am not upgrading "magic" iPad 2 models here in western, MA.

One iPad 2 was a 16 GB model. The other rwo were 64 GB models.

There is something, other the just iOS 9 itself, going on that is causing many to report serious issues to their iPad 2 models.

My postive experiences with older iPads and iOS 9 I am sure are NOT unique.

I have help many users reporting in here to get their iPad 2s back to near previous performance levels or, at the very least, back to a usuable and acceptable performance levels.

Many users have already thanked me (and I have NOT recieved any extra points, so,far) for returning their iPad 2s to their near former performance.

I am done with this, now.

I volunteer my valuable time tin these Apple Support forums to help troubleshoot and come up with solutions to help other Apple users get their Apple product issues straightened out and all through this process with this issue, alll I get from many here is arguing, ridicule, insults, ranting and raving.

I have stayed persistent in my suggestions and assertions in that my list of possible fixes WILL help some iPad 2,3 or 4 users get their iPads back to good working order.

I haven't kept up these thread replies to argue and fight with users.

If nothing I have posted didn't work for some users, this DOES NOT mean it won't work for other iPad 2 users.

I don't have any other solutions, so I guess I will let what I have here stand and just wish everyone good luck!

Good Bye...

I really appreciate your help Michel, and I am not attacking you. And the ranting is not towards you, it's in general.

But no performance improvements on my, or my fathers iPad 2. It's insane that I have to, or should jump trough hoops just to achieve acceptable performance on a idevice. What if my computer breaks down? I am disappointed in my iPad. I know it's older but I only ask for decent operation.

Still happy with my old iMac tough.

Hi there. I've had the same problem with my iPad 2 - it was very sluggish and safari kept crashing. Turns out that it was the JavaScript that was causing the problem. I switched it off through Safari settings and it's now running perfect. However, you would not be able to watch videos such as YouTube but if you download its app the video works fine. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion,

I Turned off javascript, but safari is still reloading tabs on me. It's still not possible to dissable javascript for 3d part browser. However, Safari did not crash yet.

I Have encountered the same issues. Even after a factory reset it was sluggish... But after running a few tests i noticed only Safari was slow, so I downloaded Chrome and PROBLEM SOLVED! I can once again type fast and pages open/ close rapidly and it is once again fun to use my iPad mini.

cheers!

Here's another suggestion that will save you: Download a PC application that is called "PhoneClean". Note the basic version is free and you need a PC with iTunes, linked to your iOS device to use it. This application runs on your PC. It will go through a lot of junk that has accumulated in your iOS device, and delete anything that's safe to delete, especially old cache, failed downloads etc. Depending on how old your device is and how you have used it in the past, it may reclaim up to 5 GB of storage. Now the important part, is that by freeing this junk, you allow iOS 9.x to re-index contents on your device on a clean cache, rather than trying to do this in a space that had already been filled and cluttered by previous iOS versions. Once this is over you will see significant improvement in performance. I'm not aware of any other software that can do this, but if there exists one, please share.

I Have the iPad mini with Retina display and have noticed apps crashing a lot just by doing a simple task. It doesn't run sluggish (running iOS 9.2). I've hard reset the device and closed and reopened apps many times and still will crash. I've hardly EVER had an issue with an apple product, I'm still not surprised as I understand not everything isn't perfect I sure as **** am not perfect xD, I'm glad I'm not alone though! I will try a system restore. Hopefully an update will come out soon! I have an iPhone 6 Plus and have rarely ever experience an app crash so that narrows it down! 😀

I have iPad mini. It become almost useless paperweght device. It is very slow. It takes the worst ever web browser Safari minutes to open simple webpage.

Will never buy Apple products anymore. Mediocre, overpriced devices with very bed, user problem ignorant support.

Hi McDuff14, Cyber100 and others

IN support of your post ....whilst modern iOS versions will be designed to make best use of newer hardware the user must be protected from Apple crippling older devices with more recent iOS.

Ideadly this should be via proper testing on older devices, transparency and open communications from Apple, or even preventing update to slug-releases At worst the user should be able to go back to previous version easily And this is not the case !

in the UK there are commercial best practices (I think may even be law) that demand products are supported and usable for at least 7 years after release. My first gen iPad mini is my view now "unfit for purpose" as it is slow, flakey and frustrating to use. I am planning on taking it up with the consumers association!

Note I Have tried many of the suggestions made in this blog but with only very minor (if any) improvements... And in response to some other posts I have 8.5 Gb free!!

SInce OSX 10.1 I have been a very strong "advocate" of Apple products / system but I am now sensing the slide of Apple down the same dirty grubby glutenous path that Google and Microsoft have taken. With a turnover greater than GDP of Denmark (I recall reading somewhere) and yet boundless greed and fading line of sight to the customer seems to be the order of the day!

In principle I would love an iPad Pro but I do no longer feel confident enough to fork out that amount of cash to have the device rendered useless within 3-4 years. I won't be buying for this reason alone!!

so ... Another future iOS device customer lost due to iOS9.

SHAME ON YOU APPLE 😟

in fairness I have typed this response on my iPad and it didn't cause a problem/ reload etc (although was very slow/jerky).... Must be my lucky (?) day!

Well said excellently put I could not have said it better myself. I have the original IPad around four years old now, absolutely useless piece of equipment, cannot upgrade the iOS above 5 where it sits now, practically nil apps will download nor work, I can virtually do nothing with it other than send emails to it and store photographs, to me this is not acceptable. I do have an original mini iPad which is now three yrs old which I still use but that to is beginning to struggle to cope, slow barely able to cope with ios9 God forbid the next iOS which apple are no doubt actively working on. It appears to me that these products are designed for 2-3 years of use then they are to be cast aside to the scrap heap in the expectancy that we will spend our hard earned cash on yet another Apple product, overly priced as they are. Don't get me wrong I like the concept of the Apple products I have the iphone6 which syncs with my mini iPad and iPad 2 but please do something to make them still useable for a few years nit 2-3 which is not acceptable. its time that Apple started to treat its customers with a bit more respect, if you want us to buy new every three yrs then reduce prices for your products or make them last for longer.

Iphone 4s users angry too

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/29/ios9-iphone-4s-lawsuit/

I have had slow-down and performance issues even just upgrading to iOS 8. Most annoying is that Safari continually crashes.

I have done all the app quitting, restarts, resets, restores, app purging, etc. and still see performance unimproved. (BTW, Apple, erasing content and all settings does not return it to an 'out of the box condition'. Out of the box, my iPad mini was iOS 6, not 8.xx, thank you.)

I agree with the comment that not everyone who has the slow-down issue writes in.

I strongly agree that as customers we should be given the option to revert back to an os that has worked acceptably for us.

Good (IT co-worker) advice I received one time that I failed to heed this time: don't upgrade to any OS that your hardware was not originally engineered to run on.

Not every iPad user is having issues withthe latest iOS version.

What iPad are you using?

iPad users reporting into troubleshooting forum communities' like these, represent only a growing, but still small minority of iPad 2 users having issues.

My older iPads are running very well on iOS 9.2 and since doing a full erase all contents and restoring as a new device these iPads ARE almost performing like "new, out of the box."

Zero issues!

If everyone is having issues with Safari, why doesn't everyone try another third party web browser?

Third party web browsets are NOT all the same as Safari and I have pretty good sucess with my third party browser of choice.

What kind of websites do you visit?

How many website tabs do you keep active in a web surfing session?

How many applications are you leaving running in the background? Check the App Switcher.

What exactly have you tried a have you tried any of my own suggestions here which I will rehash once, again.

How many of these have you tried in this list?

Try resetting All Settings found in the Settings App under General and in the right column under Reset.

Try resetting histories and deleting/resetting caches in all of the web browsers you use.

If you use Safari, these functions maybe in the Settings App under Safari.

Other web browsers have their settings inside of the running app, itself.

Check iCloud Settings.

If your iPad has been activated for iCloud, in the Settings App under iCloud, to the right, under iCloud Drive, tap iCloud Drive and make sure Safari is turned off for saving Safari data to iCloud Drive.

Also, under iCloud in the Settings App, in iCloud Drive, disable the saving feature for any other apps that you DO NOT want data being saved automatically to iCloud Drive.

If using Safari is still causing issues,

Try changing/using another, different third party web browser.

I don't use iOS Safari too much any longer because I found it causing me some headaches on certain websites I, regularly, visit.

I commonly use another third party web browser, Perfect Web Browser (there are others that may suit your web browsing style better, so look at all of them first to see which third party browser may work better for you) and I never experience a lot of the issues that Safari was causing.

In the Settings App under the General tab, to the right under Spotlight sesrch, try disabling the search under apps that really do not need a search, like some games, remotes, apps that really do not need to be searched, etc., to reduce the list for Spotlight to search.

Try turning on Reduced Motion.

This is found in the Settings App in the General tab the left panel.

In the right panel look under Accessibility, the look for Reduce Motion and turn this feature "On".

You should see an appreciable performance increase on all iPad 2, 3 and 4 models.

In the Settings App under the General Tab, in the right column, look for Background App Refresh and turn this setting to "off".

Try a reset of your iPad by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons simultaneously until your iPad goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons.

Good Luck!

Thanks - worked a treat - as you said, instantly faster !! 😁

I have the iPad mini, originally iOS 6, now 8.4.1 I have about 21 of 27 GB of storage available.

I have tried Mercury browser (worthless) and currently have Opera installed as an alternative to Safari. Opera is slow but does not crash as much. Websites visited regularly include social advice columns, weather forecasts, MacWorld. Otherwise, anything that may come up in a search that looks like a credible source of information. I usually close tabs of pages after I read them. Usually, no more than 3-4 up at any one time.

I do close apps that are running in the background; sometimes preventatively, sometimes when I sense they may be slowing things up. I just changed the setting for refreshing apps in the background to OFF.

I have occasionally cleared browser history and cache. Have disabled java script at times.

Want to reiterate that the sluggishness is not only in relation to using Safari but also in general use.

I do not use iCloud for backup or file transfer and do not use iCloud Drive at all. Only turned iCloud on and logged in when I found out it was required in order to try AirDrop. And I also had Bluetooth enabled for that reason only.

I have done restarts, "reset all settings", "erase all content and settings", (with and without restoring from an iTunes B/U). I did read that restoring from iTunes would 'install the latest iOS', which I would rather it did not, even though I I had already jumped from 6 to 8.

What I found MOST FRUSTRATING was, as a last resort, doing the 'erase all content and settings' in order to have it in 'out-of-box condition' and then find out it did not have the original OS (6.x?) it had when I took it out of the box.

So after having removed all my files off to preserve them, I found it was a waste of time and effort. Plus I also had to redo all the changes in settings I'd made along the way. REALLY FRUSTRATING

I do not have any bench test type data to base a comparison on when evaluating the results any of the steps I have made to try and help this. But I still believe I have a reduction in performance of the product with the newer OS that I am now stuck with.

Thank you for taking the time to write your response and providing your suggestions. I may try Perfect Web Browser.