Q: Ipad really slow after update to iOS 9

Whining and complaining? Your solutions are worthless if the operating system is defective and they are worthless. And as I have said before you shouldn't have to refresh and delete things to get it to work somewhat normal. Keep your nasty comments to yourself.

I haven't seen any nasty remarks why would you state something like that when all the member is doing is trying to help others in stress.  You should apologize to MichelPM instead of criticizing someone that is only trying to help!!!

I apologize. I thank you for trying to help but I do believe it's up to the programmers at Apple to ultimately deal with the bugs causing the lag on iPad's and iPhone's from iOS 9. Hopefully they will read these discussions and do everything necessary to restore the normal operation of the devices. I know they probably are working on it I just hope that they acknowledge there is a problem and don't push it back until iOS 10 which may have a few bugs of its own.

Apple designers and engineers don't participate in these forums

Take your tirade up with Apple.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Apple designers and engineers do not read these forums. Apple supplies these forums for users to work out their product issues with other users, but these community forums ARE monitored/moderated by Apple Staff assigned to these community forums, but I do not think any info is ever passed on to who/mever the cognizant parties are who would need to know if there are any mounting issues with a product or software.

The only way to get Apple to listen to you is to use their feedback portion  of their website. Apple DOES read the feedback, but they still do not respond with any personal replies.

Good Luck!

I am done with this post.

Me too. Hopefully they'll fix their operating system or watch their sales decline. No one is too big to fail it just takes time.

One thing I noticed is that my Notification Centre (on the pulldown screen) is *full*. It appears to contain every email I've ever received, and is unclearable as the device doesn't seem to be finished adding the thousands of notifications in order to allow me to clear it. I managed to get into the settings and disable Mail notifications and it hasn't *yet* frozen since.

Anyone else suffering from home screen freezing up, is your notification centre doing this too? If the device is trying to cope with hundreds of notices at once coming from Mail, then that could explain the lag.

Hi, you may read of ways to improve performance, by reducing transparency or motion. Don't even bother. The main issue with iOS 9 in iPad Mini is Siri. Just by disabling Siri (Settings > General > Siri) you will see significant improvement, restoring iPad to the iOS 8 performance levels. Obviously Apple will address this issue in one of the next updates. I know that a lot of people depend on Siri, so my recommendation for iPad Mini 1st/2nd generation is to either stick with iOS 8, or go to iOS 9 with Siri disabled.

Thanks for the tip, I never use Siri the only time it comes on if I accidentally press the button, I find Siri irritating so I have now switched it off. Let's see if this speeds things up.

WOW!

That is a completely new find!

How did you find this?

Siri has never been an issue previously.

What about just turning off the Siri suggestions option under Spotlight in the Settings App instead of completely disabling Siri?

Nice suggestion MichelPM, I will try various alternatives and see what part of Siri is actually causing this. I found this accidentally. Like porpoise007  I never use Siri, and my kid triggered it all the time, so I decided to disable it. I'm on an iPad Mini 1, and saw amazing improvement after this. It was very sluggish and actually took up to a minute to switch between open apps. After disabling Siri it went back to instant switching.

Amazing!

Sort of like a Sherlock Holmes moment finding that!

My iPad and iPhone have went back to the speedy smooth normal way of iOS but I disabled spotlight search and every app that was turned on for it and it took the iPad awhile after doing that for it to go back to normal. Maybe there was some indexing going on or info being uploaded to Apple servers. I also have to say I never liked iCloud backup which runs when charging and on Wi-Fi because it slowed down my internet while I'm trying to do things. I wonder if that's why it might have been doing some kind of indexing or whatever in iOS 9 and bogging everything down very bad for me and maybe other people. I need Siri on my iPhone for quick navigation when driving so I won't shut that off. I don't have any spotlight search though but I didn't use it anyway. I'd like to have it on but am afraid if I turn it back on I'll be having lag again.

Yup,

I accidentally found iCloud and iCloud drive automatically on for certain apps. When i shut these down, my iPad 2 got even snappier!

Same goes for Spotlight searches, but I edited the list of apps, so Spotlight isn't searching every single app on my iPad 2.

I have since updated my list of suggested fixes since I last posted here. So, I will post my new list for others to try here.

Also, I have since found that my iPad 2 has become "like new out of the box" fast performance-wise by doing a variation on a normal erase-reset/restore procedure.

On both my iPad 2 and iPad 3, I did a backup to iTunes, then did and erase-reset restore as new iPad, first. Then, reconnected my iPads to iTunes on my Macs and then, I did a restore from backups.

The performance increase from this were noticeable and apreciable and both iPads are operating with a like new performance speed and, in addition, both iPad models have gotten an appreciable amount of free storage space returned to them.

Here is the procedure for this restore procedure and this has already worked, sucessfully, for one other iPad 2 user so far!

First, connect your iPad to USB and sync and backup your iPad to iTunes (make sure your iTunes is up to date).

Then disconnect/eject your iPad from the computer.

From just the iPad, in the Settings App under the General setting, look in the right column for Reset option, then erase and reset your iPad to completely erase your iPad and then, again, from the iPad, set it up as a new iPad setup to factory "out of the box" operation.

Then reconnect your iPad to the computer and make sure to cancel the syncing, by tapping the small X to the left in the top  center iTunes display box.

iTunes should detect your iPad and ask if you want to update to the latest iOS version.

Select OK. If iTunes begins to try and sync, again, cancel the sync. Let the update continue until it loads into the iPad.

May take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to update the iPad.

DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER DURING THE UPGRADING PROCESS!!!!

Once your iPad is updated and your iPad appears in iTunes, again, CANCEL the sync, once more.

Select Restore from Backup instead and pick your last backup to restore back to your iPad.

Once the restore is complete, finish setting up the iPad and let it sync back to iTunes you can either cancel the sync, again or let it backup, again.

Then disconnect the iPad.

Do one hard 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.

Once your iPad is back to the Home screen,

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".

If you purchased any music from iTunes, you will need to redownload that content back to your iPad for playing directly from your iPad and not from Apple Music servers.

Also, if your iPad contained a lot of images in the Photos app, these will take time to regenerate the original AND thumbnail images themselves inside of the Photos app when you first launch it.

I update ALL my iDevices connected up to my iMac and sync'd over USB through iTunes.

My Mom"s and Wife's iPad 2s were still both on iOS 7 and my own iPad 3 this way.

I have NEVER, EVER had an issue with any iOS updates.

Glad you got your iPad 2 to a much better performance level than what you experienced previously!

If you choose to try this, your iPad 2 should be even better running!

Good Luck!

Here is my updated list of suggested fixes for a slow iPad 2, 3 or 4 model.

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.

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!

Look at the last page in this post that shows the success of a complete clean restore, then restore from backup from user Gul540

Then go back one page to see my more abbreviated procedure for this.

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