iPad Air 2 slow after iOS 12 update

Instead of justifying your stance and reluctance to use all of my tips, why don’t you just try them, before dismissing them.

My wife and I use older iPads older than yours.

We use both 6 and 7-year old iPad 2 and 3 models.

With all of my tips those iPad run fine.

Your iPad Air 2 is 2-3 years, newer and more powerful than any older iPad models!

My tips WILL help your iPad Air 2!

A lot better than you think.

Also, FYI

Running a beta version of iOS is always risky, and not really advisable to run as these are unfinished and unrefined versions of the eventual final release of an iOS version.

For starters, turning ON reduce motion minimises all of the necessary iOS UI graphics eye candy and you will see an uptick in performance just doing THAT!

Turning OFF Background App Refresh is another biggie!

So is minimising and editing which apps get notifications.

You do not need every single app on your iPad getting notifications and reminders.

Your iPad Air 2 WILL run much better doing these things.

I own a 3-year old iPad Pro. Your iPad Air 2 is only one year older than mine.

Even on my iPad Pro, I run ALL of these optimisation tips and I am sure my iPad Pro is performing the best and fastest it is able.

Just try them all, please.

If you'd like to try ShagCA's excellent advice, here is a link to walk you through the steps. Often, especially on older iOS devices, software can get ever so slightly corrupt in the process. A restore often brings renewed performance to a device.

Apple: Restore Device From Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184

I was having the same issue after the iOS 12 update. My cousin, who is very computer savv, found this fix and sent it to me. I did this on both my iPad Air 2 and our Mac. Both are now performing perfecly.

Go to settings > WIFI > tap your wifi connection, scroll down to Configure DNS Automatic > Tap Manual > DNS Servers > Add Server > enter 1.1.1.1

There are a whole bunch of DNS settings that can be used, as well, but not sure if DNS settings have any affect on actual non-network connected iPad performance or not.

You can change to Google's DNS: Settings > Wi-Fi > Click on the Network, Delete all numbers under DNS and enter 8.8.8.8 or alternatively 8.8.4.4 OR use OpenDNS 208.67.222.123 or 208.67.220.123.

Well,

iOS 12 IS supposed to run faster on older iDevices all the way back to the iPhone 5S, which Apple introduced 5 years, ago.

Your 1st gen iPad Air is now 5 years old, too!

Have you tried putting ALL of my iPad performance improving tips that I recommend older iPad users put to use?

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!

Have you tried a 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?

Hi.. I have the same issue as well and found this posting using a Google search.

I also have the iPad Air 2 with 64GB and I was on the iOS 12 public beta.

The issue seems to happen after the device goes into sleep mode.

It wakes up, takes longer than usual to connect to WiFi and most apps will crash

I've even seen my Bluetooth status appear as "Unavailable" before changing to "On"

Doing a hard reset seems to be the only way to resolve this temporarily.

I'll keep watching here for other posts and will update if the next patch resolves this.

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!

I would still review my list to see if you checked off everything I listed.

My list is very thorough.

One thing that sped up my iPad 2 considerably was turning ON reduce transparency in the Settings.

Also, really making heavy changes to Notifications and notification alerts.

Do what you will.

If you have a computer with a fairly current OS and iTunes 12.6.5, you could try a backup of your iPad to iTunes, then do a restore of that data in iTunes to see if your iPad regains any free data storage space.

iTunes 12.6.5 found here.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208079

iTunes 12.6.5 for the Mac requires OS X El Capitàn 10.11.4 or later. Not sure of the Windows PC system requirements.

Once again,

Tap on the link below to my iDevice/iOS performance/optimisation user tips link.

Slow iPad on iOS 9, 10 or 11! - Apple Community

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 help improve overall iOS/iDevice performance.

Good Luck!

A correction.

For starters, turning ON reduce motion minimises all of the unnecessary iOS UI graphics eye candy and you will see an uptick in performance just doing THAT!

Lintott wrote:

I recall Apple stressing this update would make older phones and iPads faster not slower....

No companies in the whole world would claim their new operating systems slower than the old one. If you believe their claim, you have not learned any lesson from history. Newer operating systems will absolutely slow down old device. There is no question about that. I kinda wish iPad Air isn't compatible with iOS 12. I'm afraid that someday when I factory reset my iPad Air, iOS 12 will kill it. I'm still running 11 right now and yes it is laggy compared to earlier versions. I won't touch iOS 12 until it is time to sell my iPad (if I can still sell it).

Why the attititude?

We are ALL users here doing the same things here.

Helping other users.

I am just trying to help you, now, with your slowness with your own iPad Air.

You are obviously having some sort of issue.

I am just asking you to review my list to see if it checks off everything you have done.

Have you done a complete erase and restore, using iTunes or iCloud of your iPad Air since installing iOS 11?

Also, keep in mind, too, that a 1st gen iPad Air ONLY has 1 GB of internal RAM.

Try my iPad performance tips link on the previous page of this posting.

See if all of it helps.

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.