iOS 11 on iPad Pro 9.7 very slow

I got the iPad Pro 9.7 128GB for its speed and performance.

I got this device for about 60k and now on iOS 11 it feels like im using iOS 10 on iPhone 5.

it lags a lot. all the animations have a stutter. And everything takes forever to load. It’s not smooth. It is visually depressing to see a new device perform this way. Please find a way to solve this. And also please could someone else confirm if their device is performing in a similar way. I have tried hard resetting and also even restored to get the same exact results. Please help.

iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 11, null

Posted on Sep 24, 2017 3:09 AM

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MichelPM

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Posted on Jan 14, 2018 1:05 PM

Other things to look at.

In Settings app, General settings panel, turn OFF Background App Refresh.

In Settings app, under General settings, Reset panel, at the right bottom of the list, Reset All Settings.

Also, in general, if you want a faster IDevice, on all of my iDevices, I turn off most of the iOS motion graphics eye candy, by simply turning ON Reduce Motion in Settings app, General, Accessibilty settings.

Make sure you aren't running scads and scads of background apps in the iOS 11 Control Panel/App Switcher.

If you are, you need to quit the bulk of these background running apps by tap and hold a finger on an app window in the switcher and slide your finger upwards to quit an app. You should be able to use more than one finger to quit more than one app simultaneously.

Also, make sure you don’t have scads and scads of active website tabs running in the web browser.

If you do, greatly reduce the amount of active website tabs your web browser.

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Oct 30, 2017 1:31 AM in response to Adam Tinworth

Even clean restore won’t help for me.

iPad Air 2 slow - Google Drive

DaveAI

Level 1

18 points

Oct 30, 2017 6:09 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Ok. Good to know.

Oct 31, 2017 5:41 AM in response to pranavfromchennai

10.5 inch iPad Pro are reported to have this issue as well. It is not about hardware problem. It’s software. I have tried clean install and hard reset. Neither helps

DrLuis90

Level 1

4 points

Oct 31, 2017 11:17 AM in response to pranavfromchennai

Updated to iOS 11.1 and performance did improve considerably. Much fewer animation hiccups. Still a bit slow overall, far from perfect in my opinion.

At least we’re moving in the right direction now.

Oct 31, 2017 11:22 AM in response to pranavfromchennai

Just updated my iPad Air 2 to iOS 11.1. Things are much smoother and fluid. No more stuttering animation on five finger pinching to close apps. But in term of performance, it is no near to iOS 10.3.3

Nov 3, 2017 11:06 PM in response to DaveAI

11.1 is not lag free. I noticed random animation lag at first attempt of closing app by five fingers. However, it is much smoother and vastly improved compare to 11.0.3

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