Thought I have updated my iPhone 5 I have held off updating my iPad 2 for fear it will make it to slow & sluggish for use?
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Is iOS 7 unusable on the iPad 2?
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Thanks for that feedback.
Would you say it's had any noticeable impact on its battery life so far?
I am using iOS 7 on my iPad 2 and i haven't found any issues with battery life or anything else, yet .
Amen...
I am in the same boat, OP. I updated my 4S last night and while it runs well, it does stutter occasionally. I would love to hear more input from iPad 2 users as well. I don't want to update if it will lag or otherwise not function as well as it does now.
Does it lose any functionality or styling cues like the iPhone 4?
Does it lose any functionality or styling cues like the iPhone 4?
I've been using mine for a few hours now, and I can honestly say that IOS7 on iPad 2 is FARRR better than IOS6. Way more stable, a lot less stuttering/hanging, animations are nice an smooth. It's honestly like my iPad has been given a second life.
Sluggish and there are some hiccups with certain animations, but it's alright for the most part.
Photo Frame
Can anyone confirm that the Photo Frame feature (from the lock screen) has been removed? Thanks.
Can anyone confirm that the Photo Frame feature (from the lock screen) has been removed? Thanks.
works fine on my iPad 2. Battery life is the same for me. Bit slower than the iOS 6.
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My iPad 2 was my guinea pig for iOS 7. Used it for about an hour last night. Everything seemed to perform well. Although it may seem "slower" because of the new animations, which I probably wouldn't have noticed if there wasn't such a fuss made over them.
I upgraded my iPad 2 last week, and my iPhone 5 yesterday. The iPad 2 performance is decent, but not nearly as good as the iPhone 5. Every now and then it just takes an extra instasecond for something to respond, but it's not a deal breaker.
The worst for me is when using the keyboard, and I switch from letters to numbers, it takes just a bit too long for it to occur. After the first time, it's quick, probably because it's already loaded into memory.
I really miss the blurring effect. The regular transparency is rather ugly.
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The worst for me is when using the keyboard, and I switch from letters to numbers, it takes just a bit too long for it to occur. After the first time, it's quick, probably because it's already loaded into memory.
I really miss the blurring effect. The regular transparency is rather ugly.
-HM
Runs fine on my father's iPad 2, haven't noticed any slowdowns when I used it, and it was a OTA install rather from iTunes itself.
I don't know people think the iOS 7 on the iPad 2/3/4/Mini are slow, I haven't encountered any slow downs, guess it's just bad luck for some people.
They seem to have done a good job on supporting what is not exactly the newest of hardware judging by the feedback on here.
Does iOS 7 take up any more memory than iOS 6 on it?
Does iOS 7 take up any more memory than iOS 6 on it?
It's working fine on mine. The animation from lock to home screen was slow the first time, but the issue didn't repeat after that one time.
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To be fair, while the iPad 2 was released a while ago, the internals are pretty much the same found in the iPad Mini, so not supporting it would have been unashamed planned obsolescence to try and force you to update your perfectly-fine hardware
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To be fair, while the iPad 2 was released a while ago, the internals are pretty much the same found in the iPad Mini, so not supporting it would have been unashamed planned obsolescence to try and force you to update your perfectly-fine hardware
It's working fine on mine. The animation from lock to home screen was slow the first time, but the issue didn't repeat after that one time.
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To be fair, while the iPad 2 was released a while ago, the internals are pretty much the same found in the iPad Mini, so not supporting it would have been unashamed planned obsolescence to try and force you to update your perfectly-fine hardware
Yet the iPad 2 still doesn't have some of the blur effects (NC, CC etc.). Also Siri... I can't possibly understand the limitation behind that. I would love to hear a technical explanation from Apple.
There are two theories behind the blur effects. The first says it was removed, not because the iPad 2 couldn't handle it, but to improve performance (I honestly don't miss them and would rather have my iPad run faster without them, if that's the case). The second (which I personally find feasible and tend to believe) is that the wreck-party called iPad 3 didn't handle them too well, so they removed it from the iPad 2 because it wouldn't look good for Apple to have older hardware working better than the model they released after.
And Siri... some say it's something either with the sound codec or physical microphone. I tend to think since they were trying to sell Siri so hard as this must-have-feature (again, personally, I don't use it too often) they deliberately left it out to try to get you to buy the newest and shiniest toy
iOS 6 was pretty slow to boot for me... and honestly, I rarely reboot my ipad, so it doesn't really bother me much (that's just me, of course).
They look perfectly fine to me. They obviously look prettier on retina devices, but I don't see any jarring pixelation on my iPad 2 at all
I'm an old fat, I just set the text to bold and can use/read it without a problem.
If you want to make the iPad2 lag horribly, go switch the wallpaper image. It's worth a sad laugh, at the very least.