My iPad is about 6 years old, version 9.3.5, model MD405LL/A. It gets slower and slower, and crashes and has to reload the page 4-6 times just to get through one issue of the New York Times. Is there any way I can reinstall the OS? Can I wipe it and reinstall, while somehow saving and reinstalling the apps?
Thanks.
Have any of you tried a hard reset of your iPad by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons until your iPad goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons?
How much free data storage space is left on your iPad?
iDevices need to maintain, at least, 3 GBs, OR GREATER, of free data storage space.
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.
In Settings app (NOT from the iOS Control Panel) turn OFF Bluetooth when not using any Bluetooth devices.
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 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 window 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.
Tap on the link below to my iDevice/iOS performance/optimisation user tips link.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10344
Try all of these tips and leave each tip active together. Do not simply try every tip individually, expecting just one tip to be a performance “cure all”.
Many of these tips are designed to work together to improve overall iOS/iDevice performance.
Good Luck!
see this link:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201252
you can not downgrade an iOS device to any OS lower than what is presently on it.
This response does not address my question. I don’t want to downgrade; I want to wipe it and reinstall the same OS.
You can restore it through iTunes on your computer and then reload your backup. Do the backup before you do the restore process.
Thanks! Will do.
Reinstall OS on iPad?
