iPad How is iPad 3 on iOS 8?

I did a clean install of iOS 8 on my iPad three and was expecting things to slow down a little and battery life to be compromised.
So far so good the iPad feels no slower than with iOS 7.

8.0.2 seems to have the iPad 3 back to normal...it was crazy laggy after 8.0 but not it's nice and smooth again.

HXGuyAZ said:

8.0.2 seems to have the iPad 3 back to normal...it was crazy laggy after 8.0 but not it's nice and smooth again.

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That's good to hear, I've not updated mine to 8.02 yet. Overall 8.0 is fine but Safari is nearly unusable, hopefully 8.02 will fix that...

I've found the same to be true after the latest update. At the moment Safari is running well for me and my other most used apps seem to be doing well. It feels pretty similar to how things were running on 7.1.2, however, I do get a little more lag when first opening up apps or switching via the multitask window. A little bit of a bother, but overall not a huge deal.

I've noticed on both iPads- a 2 and a 3- that after a power off, it is hard to get it to turn back on.

One little thing... No nag badge on the settings icon. So presumably my iPad hasn't downloaded the new iOS. I don't know if this is a change of policy at apple following all the negative chatter last update when owners were complaining about being forced to take it... And lose valuable storage space in the process. Or a glitch on my own.

Just thought I should mention this.

Cheers.

All my issues were from an upgrade. When I reset, and installed as a "new" iPad, it has worked fine.

Working great over here, i did install as a new ipad though

would love to do that, Tminusg and kevink2, but that would take me a day

unfortunately backup to iCloud really only saves settings; doesn't save the exact app build, positions on home screen, data, etc.

I just hate the idea of losing an entire day to rebuild when I'll probably be getting a new iPad soon

8.0.2 does me absolutely no good; apps still take 15 seconds to open

my iPad 3 on iOS 8 is not very usable, there's an incredible lag on Keynote which i use regularly, frustrating enough to want to smash my iPad...

I know the answer to why some of you have slow devices after a clean restore, and some of you have devices performing on par with iOS 7. The question to think about is: What are all the steps that these people do differently from each other? Clearly, doing a clean restore means you initially have the same data on the devices. So what do people do differently after restore? First, they set up their iPad with their own different iCloud data. Then, they download other apps and start accumulating different data on them. What everyone overlooks is their iCloud data.

You with a slow Keynote app, remove or reset your iCloud Keynote documents in addition to reinstalling the app.

You with a slow Safari, remove all items on your iCloud reading list. If that doesn't help, then you could try removing the other iCloud data: bookmarks and autofill data.

This problem really is a simple one to fix. I had a slow, laggy Safari and slow URL bar preloading, and by deleting all iCloud reading list items (and moving them to Pocket), Safari is back to normal and extremely fast.

mangomind said:

I know the answer to why some of you have slow devices after a clean restore, and some of you have devices performing on par with iOS 7. The question to think about is: What are all the steps that these people do differently from each other? Clearly, doing a clean restore means you initially have the same data on the devices. So what do people do differently after restore? First, they set up their iPad with their own different iCloud data. Then, they download other apps and start accumulating different data on them. What everyone overlooks is their iCloud data.

You with a slow Keynote app, remove or reset your iCloud Keynote documents in addition to reinstalling the app.

You with a slow Safari, remove all items on your iCloud reading list. If that doesn't help, then you could try removing the other iCloud data: bookmarks and autofill data.

This problem really is a simple one to fix. I had a slow, laggy Safari and slow URL bar preloading, and by deleting all iCloud reading list items (and moving them to Pocket), Safari is back to normal and extremely fast.

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OK, that did it for mine. Outstanding. Thanks.

sovereign said:

OK, that did it for mine. Outstanding. Thanks.

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You are very welcome. It is simple to figure out these issues, really, once you break down the problem into its components and think about it step-by-step.

Mine was fine with 8, but when I upgraded to 8.0.2 things slowed down noticeably. I've also had to restart it a few times to get the volume rocker to work.

I am still on ios 6 and I haven't regretted it for one second.

On my iPad3,2 (iPad Third Generation with Verizon)

I've run iOS 8.0 beta 5, iOS 8.0 GM, iOS 8.0 release, iOS 8.0.2, iOS 8.1 beta 1, and just today, I've updated to iOS 8.1 beta 2.

In order: 8.0 beta 5 was sluggish and not all that great. 8.0 GM was faster, but substantially glitchier. Somehow this marginally improved with the 8.0 general release. 8.0.2 was a lot better, but still not fantastic...there were still some glitches in mail and safari with the accelerometer. Nothing show-stoppong though. Using the App Store on both 8.0 general release and 8.0.2 to find and download apps was quite sluggish. 8.1 beta 1 seemed to make things slower, though, so far, 8.1 beta 2 seems to have remedied some of that a bit.

I did DFU restores when installing each of the aforementioned iOS versions except for iOS 8.1 beta 2 which I did as an OTA update for simplicity's sake.

Honestly, while the experience with iOS 8.x.x is sluggish as all hell, it's still usable for basic tasks. If you're a third generation iPad owner, I'd give thought to upgrading to this next Air if you can't wait for the one after that. Using it side-by-side with my iPad Air, it is definitely a night and day speed difference. If you find it sluggish, that's because it is. Business as usual, though; that's how iOS devices have always aged dating back to the first generation iPhone and iPod touch.

You can pretty much ignore everyone that voted yes to iOS8 being faster than iOS7 on this iPad. It may have more features and some people may have a higher tolerance of what they consider slow, but iOS8 definitely does not perform faster than iOS7, and has been proven with benchmark tests. Fact.

EDIT: Okay, I've cleared History and Web Data in Safari Settings and it's muuch smoother now and closer to 7.1.

wolfboy said:

Okay, I've cleared History and Web Data in Safari Settings and it's muuch smoother now and closer to 7.1.

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Thing's still sluggish. I can't say I used the one I have with 7.1, but it did seem noticeably better then than now. Also, that's just Safari.

fruitpunch.ben said:

Ok. I'm doing it. Here goes nothing! Wish me luck guys

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...and? How is it?

i've read conflicting things from people suggesting they've been able to take calls/ texts on the iPad 3, whereas apple's iOS page seems to indicate its unsupported.

that is pretty much the only thing that would entice me towards iOS 8, so if people can definitively confirm its unavailable, i'll save myself the hassle of upgrading!

thanks!

8.0 was dreadful on my 3. I had to go back to 7. Not sure ill go back.