ipad very slow after ios9

1GB of free space is NOT nearly enough free space.

Ideally, your iDevice should ALWAYS maintain a minimum free storage amount of 3- 6 GBs or greater on any iDevice (the more free space, the better) to ensure proper and reliable operation of iOS.

You need to backup to a Mac or a PC, running iTunes on a computer and backing up in iTunes OR backing up your data onto iCloud or some other cloud storage service (offsite data storage server) and/or a service like Dropbox to backup your data. If you want to savebyour important and precious data, you need to do this ASAP, if not sooner.

This is why you need to have some method and/or more robust and stable hardware to periodically save your mobile device data to.

A mobile computing device is NOT a permanent place to your store important data to. These devices are not as stable and robust enough as a full blown laptop or desktop computer to trust for long-term data storage.

You need to have, at least, one other more robust and reliable source to store your important and precious data and images that you never want to lose.

Even on a more robust computer, you need to have/should have a backup of your important data on your computer, that you never want to lose, in case of hard drive failure or some other computer failure.

FYI, cloud storage is fine, still much better to save to a local source like a computer or WiFi enabled portable and external hard drives designed to use with mobile devices.

These are available from Seagate or Western Digital and there is even a new WiFi enabled USB Flash drive from SanDisk called the SanDisk Connect that comes in a variety of storage sizes that works with any iDevice.

Once you have a reliable backup of your iPad's data, then you can start deleting data off of your iPad to make more needed internal storage space.

Good Luck!

HI, I did exactly what Gene Cutler suggested and it worked!!!! Thanks sooo much

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i have an iPad Air and it was very slow after upgrading to iOS 9. It always stutters when you switch apps, or even when you type. Until I came across a method on the web, It became quite annoying and it finally forced me to want to sell it and buy a new one. This method really solved everything and my iPad becomes as fast as it was in iOS 8. I must condemn apple for using this trick to try to coerce people to upgrade their device. I hope this will help everyone facing the problem.

The method is: Go to Settings -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive -> Turn off

I reset all my **** and it still is slow .. I think you might be right .. apple is doing this so we will want to buy a new ipad .

I can't mark your comment as helpful anymore but the article helped me a LOT even after deleting the settings. Thank you! 🙂

Thank you for the response, and you're welcome happy to help anytime in the future

After doing some research, I found the the speed of my iPad2 was greatly effected but many of the settings for features included in upgrades. I returned it almost to its normal speed by altering settings, and turning off features that I don't need. This article helped tremendously!!

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/ipad/how-speed-up-ipad-tips-3632709/

I have had the same issues since the update as well. It got to the point that I decided to invest in a Kindle fire. I have just done some research and found a website that has given me step by step instructions on what to do to fix any of the issues that are slowing down your Ipad. I have an Ipad 2 and loved it since the day I purchased it years ago.

Here is the website that I looked at and it helped with step by step instructions on fixing the slowdown on your device:

www.macworld.clo.uk/how-to/ipad/how-to-speed-up-ipad-tips-tricks-3632709/

Hope this helps many of you solve the issues until Apple can fix the bugs that are in the latest update. Good luck everyone.

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the last two of you who posted can check and use my rather comprehensive list of things to try, in case the Macworld article missed anything.

iPad issues tips found here.

Slow iPad on iOS 9, 10 or 11!

iDevice WiFi issues found here.

iOS WiFi connect/disconnect issues.

Good Luck!

Short answer is yes. Apple intentionally force their products to become practically useless 3-4 years after release. They do so via software updates. They intentionally release OS updates that make their older products work badly. Also, app developers stop supporting old OS's, so everyone is forced to upgrade. At the beginning, Apple products were simply better, thus the price and demand. Now people can get similar products for more than half the price. All of those suggestions on the web to speed up your device will not work because Apple intentionally does this. My suggestion is stay away from Apple products and buy their cheaper equivalent, which works equally well and last equally long (or longer).

I and many more like me aren't having any issues with our iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini models.

My iPad 2 and my wife's iPad 3 all run very well on iOS 9.3.5.

My iPad 2 actually has been running better since the last security update, iOS 9.3.5.

Turning off all of the resource sucking features and processes DOES help A LOT with getting older iPads to run better!

What most users do is load up their iPads with scads of apps running in the background and they fill up their iPads near capacity instead of realising that any computing device OS needs some storage space buffer to operate within.

For any iDevice this is any thing in between 2-6 GBs of free data storage space.

Both of us have have 64 GB storage models, and we both have approx. between 16-20 GBs of free storage space.

I strongly suspect that is why my wife's and my older iPads are running well.

This term "planned obsolescence" is a fallacy term made up by a large bunch of disgruntled electronic device users who think that these types of lesser mobile computing devices should last and operate for 10 years or more.

Do you think all your appliances, electronics and automobiles over these years are all part of planned obsolescence?

How is you '49 Packard running?... How is your 1964 Motorola TV running these days?

Folks, be very weary of these type of responses. After all this is a forum in an apple website. Be your own judge. These type of arguments are as obsolete as the products they try to defend. Apple does have a plan for the lifetime of their products. Their goal is to maximize income. Their customers tend to be fanboys and apple takes advantage of them. A $700 smartphone with a lifecycle of three years is a crime in my book.

Also, his resorting to the whole "people load up their products with garbage" is another old argument. My iPad has all the basic apps, nothing else. And yet, when I type anything, the text is delayed. That is because the hardware cannot support the OS.

My iPhone 4 had been in a drawer for a while, replaced by a much more efficient Android that cost me $150. Do the same.

You have been listening to too many Apple haters and bashers on YouTube, again, haven't you?

I still have my original iPad 1 from 2010 and while I can't update its iOS any longer, I still use for many things because the apps that are on it, while older, still work!

One thing my old iPad 1 still does that Apple removed in later versions of iOS is that I can stream ALL of my iTunes purchased movie content from a remote, local storage device.

Can't do THAT any longer with any iDevice running iOS 8 and later.

You may have some hardware and/or software issue that slowed down your iDevice.

I have no idea how you upgrade/updated all your iDevices, but I suspect you may, at least, once updated/upgraded over the air using WiFi, which in most cases I have seen here in these forums has not been a reliable way to upgrade/update these devices.

The Wifi upgrade/update path is less reliable because Apple servers will attempt to analyze your device and only download what the servers think you will need for the upgrade/update.

I always update/upgrade all of my iDevices connected to my Mac running the latest version of iTunes.

That way, iTunes will download the full iOS upgrade/update and my iPad will get only what it will get from that entire full iOS download based on what it is capable of receiving.

The whole upgrade/update process takes longer, but is a much, much better and more relIable way to be able to ensure that your iDevice receives ALL the proper data from an iOS upgrade/update.

Anything else you like to add?

Again, millions of users still using older iPads (maybe not so many still using older iPhones) that are still going with no issues.

If all the iPad 2, 3 and 4 users all came telling us there iPads were no longer working or are working very poorly, we'd see A HECK OF A LOT more postings here in the forums.

Those that don't have any issues with their older iPad models don't post in troubleshooting forums, such as these.

Those that have have been pretty vocal, like you, about how their iDevices/iPads havd been running poorly on whatever new version of iOS gets released.

I am not an Apple sheep, and I find your term fanboy insulting and derogatory, btw!

I don't like iOS 10, pretty much, at all.

I have two newer iDevices that are staying put on iOS 9.3.5.

I am not like most users who feel the need to upgrade/update my iDevices every time Apple releases a new iOS upgrade/update. I wait it out until all of the bugs, kinks, more or less, get ironed out and/or there are compelling features that maybe worth an update.

So, I see nothing of value in iOS 10, to date.

So, I wait. I never did install anything from iOS 8 because I hated everything about it! So, I skipped iOS 8 completely.

If iOS 10 doesn't shape up well for me and my newer iPad and iPod Touch, I WILL be skipping iOS 10, as well.

No problems at all with doing that.

I did it once, I can do it, again!

Thank you! This worked for me on an iPad 2! Even after doing the reset i had the slow down issue but Gene's tip worked! Who would've thought that was the solurion versus the reset?