IOS 9 Performance on iPad 4

zain5 wrote:

It is because my device is perfectly fine. Showing none abnormal behaviou. No applications crash, everthing working fine except these unusual lags, stutters and overall slugish feel.

You are having issues witn your iPad.

My iPad 2 and 3 models (both of which are 64 GBs models with approx. 20 Gbs and 30 Gbs of free space, respectively) are not stuttering or laggiing, at all.

That is because, I have turned off/disabled any iOS resource hogging processes to keep my devices running as fast as possible.

Have you gone through my list, yet?

Did you, systemstically, go through my list to minimize iOS's resource sucking proceses.

These resource process are issues with iPads with lesser CPUs and less installed RAM.

In addition to putting everything in my previous list to action, make sure, too, that you do not have a lot ( more than 6-7) apps running in the background as shown listed in the iOS app switcher.

Having waaay too many apps still running in the background can degrade iOS performance and maybe responsible for your stuttering and lagging issues.

Your iPad 4 has got a problem

iOS 9.2.1 was released to plug a long standing security hole, plus it was also released to improve performance on older iDevices.

If not all of my suggested fixes or possible solutions have completely returned your iPad to acceptable, normal or improved performance,.

Here is my own modified backup/restore procedure that has already worked, successfully, for several iPad 2/3 users, so far!

I have done this and my iPad 2 and 3 are working like new, " out of the box" units!

THIS PROCEDURE DOES NOT RETURN YOUR iPAD TO ITS PREVIOUS iOS VERSION.

Also, as a disclaimer.

I make no guarantees, expressed or implied, that any of my own procedures will return EVERY older iPad to a usable, running condition.

First, connect your iPad to USB and sync and backup your iPad to iTunes (make sure,FIRST, your iTunes is up to the most latest version).

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. If iTunes begins to try and sync, again, cancel the sync.

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.

Good Luck!

zain5 wrote:

Reason is beacuse i am on IOS 8.4.1 which is lesser in features than IOS 9 even then my ipad 4 is struggling hard in some areas like spotlight search, Notification centre, rotaion and five finger gestures animation.

I have an iPad 2 (from 2012) and my wife has an iPad Air just a little over a year old. Both had issues especially with gestures with iOS8.3 and 8.4. Both are now running iOS 9.2.1 as if they are brand-new tablets. No issues in two iPads that had serious struggles with iOS 8

You're welcome. Glad to hear your iPad 4 is back. I'm so happy with the performance of my iPad 4 over the last 3 years I would gladly buy a updated model if it was sold.