Could just buy the new 9.7" iPad with A10 Fusion for iOS 11.
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Anyone kept their iPad at 10.3.3?
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To me, the new features are not worth the new bugs.
I'm still running 10.3.3 on my iPad Pro 9.7. The new features of ios 11 sound nice, but I'm so afraid of a drop in performance and battery life that I haven't updated yet. My ipad runs flawlessly on 10.3.3 that it's hard to think I would enjoy ios 11 any more.
Anyone have any experience going from ios 10 to 11 on a pro 9.7? I'd really rather maintain my flawless performance.
Anyone have any experience going from ios 10 to 11 on a pro 9.7? I'd really rather maintain my flawless performance.
I cannot really answer your question but I will offer an opinion:
Stay on iOS 10. I have a 9.7 Pro on iOS 9, and performance is flawless. Some people say it works fine, but it's a one-way street. If you don't like how it works, performance drops, or something breaks, there is no way back. As per the new features: Would you really update for features which you might or might not use frequently, and have the drawback of potential unsolvable performance drop? New features sound nice, but if you have the unlucky fate of updating and either something going wrong or performance dropping, the new features will be really expensive, and will you be able to tolerate it when all you had to do to maintain performance was not update?
I updated in the past, regretted it, and thought of all this. This is why my Pro is still on iOS 9, of course, working flawlessly.
I'm keeping my Pro 9.7 at 10.3.3 but toying with getting the 2018 iPad for iOS 11. If I get one, it'll be 128GB LTE and $559 isn't quite the instant purchase that $329 is.
I agree, regarding the switch from iOS 9 to iOS 10. However, if the new iPad-only features in iOS 11 interest you at all, upgrading is worth it, IMO. My A9X device (1G 12.9” iPP) is running iOS 11 perfectly.
I see it more like a gamble. It might work flawlessly. It might not. You never know. If you've read all the experiences people have had when updating to iOS 11 they really are all over the place. Someone who has updated can tell you how it works in his/her case, but you can never know for certain how will it work in your case.
Are those features worth a potential performance drop? Is app compatibility - for a while because devices aren't supported forever - worth it, too? Only the user can decide. It might pay off - as in your case, in which iOS 11 is running flawlessly - or it might not - many people have had issues that resulted in them wishing they had stayed on iOS 10 or 9. As you cannot roll back or downgrade to a previous version, it's a one-way ticket only.
Is that risk worth it? In my opinion, no, hence why I don't update iOS devices anymore. Am I missing out on app compatibility and new features? Yes, but that's a trade-off I am willing to concede, and it's definitely something I've put in the scales when adopting this never-updating-iOS posture. Now, you might read this and say "Oh, look at that idiot. He doesn't update because he's fearful of non-existent (at least in your case) issues, and is missing out on features and app compatibility." And that opinion is perfectly valid, too.
It weighs down to what you consider more important: Features and app compatibility, fully knowing it might - or might not - result in performance drops and bugs, or flawless performance, at the expense of dwindling App compatibility (as time passes by iOS 9 is compatible with less and less applications, thing which I am fully aware of) and a stall in features (these are the ones that are on iOS 9, and not a single one more).
Please update us. I have a mini 2 on 10.3.3 and it runs absolutely fine. The only reasons I might want to upgrade are safety and longevity. But I'm cautious as hell.
Much appreciated!
My daughter’s iPad mini 2 “updated itself” to iOS 11.2.6 and works great. As a bonus, she really likes the new dock, etc. No new lag was introduced; it may actually have gotten “snappier”.
Thanks for the update
. I still have time to decide. It's difficult because experiences are so mixed. Good to hear that the unintentional update worked great for you. I have 2 mini 2's, maybe I'll try one first somewhere in late august and see what happens.
Nope, mostly because I have an iPad Pro and I like the features that iOS 11 have to leverage the unlimited power of my iPad
True; people’s experiences seem to vary greatly.Thanks for the update
Also, assuming the mini 2 doesn’t get iOS 12, you’ll have as much time as you want to decide what to do.
If the mini 2 somehow does get iOS 12, I would either stay on 10 or go to 11. Definitely wouldn’t put iOS 12 on it.
My IPP 10.5 is still at 10.3.2 and will remain that way.
Thanks to a tvOS profile
Not going to update and see my battery wasted so quickly, plus I didn't like what Apple did with Airplane Mode.
Thanks to a tvOS profile
Not going to update and see my battery wasted so quickly, plus I didn't like what Apple did with Airplane Mode.
Not me, I updated my iPad Pro to 11.0 the second I could. It's been solid since there first beta I had, made moving on from my MacBook a very easy choice.
http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/emf.html
From that article: Apple are making it harder and harder to lower your EMF exposure by reducing the users choice to disable WiFi.
For example:
- In the latest release of iOS 11 you can no longer turn off WiFi or Bluetooth from the iPhone Control Centre.
- The new Apple Home Pod does not have an Ethernet port. It only works with wifi. (Google Home can be used with an Ethernet cable using the Chrome Ethernet adapter)
- The Apple AirPods have extremely high EMF levels – see this article.
But assuming we can disable both wi-fi and BT 100% in iOS settings (not the place I would need to go in iOS 10)... has someone proved the device stops emitting radiation with an EMF meter (like Acoustimeter)?
No? Then there's no actual proof that iOS 11 does that. And since there's no proof I am not going to leave 10.3.2.
If there's one thing that is "flying" is my freedom everytime I buy into Apple tells me to do. Besides, I get angry when I update something and the developers change stuff like Microsoft did with the Start Menu:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history
Some changes are, of course, needed and beneficial. Others are obnoxious and a display of complete disregard, like the removal of the Apple Store from iTunes, which prevented us from saving .IPA files from apps (where's our right to do an offline backup?) and with them uploading the apps even if the latter were removed from the Apple Store. I would think such changes only prove Apple suffers from megalomania, not that is "courageous enough to remove junk from their software". *
* These excuses are hilarious, and always given by "fanboys" that don't care about losing their rights (perhaps in the future you can't even use an iPAD if there's no internet available where you are, uh? Is this too improbable? A conspiracy theory or a reality in a world where an Amazon can delete your purchased ebooks remotely?). I care, my friends, and that's why I am never eager to get a new version from an app or iOS, right after they are released.
In an ideal world we would be able to remove iOS 11 and go back to iOS 10, or from 12 to 11... and with any app we accidentally hit "update" and later we discover had some important feature removed, like a support for a codec in a video player.
When did Apple allowed us to do that whenever we wanted?
My advice: at least wait a few years for the whole thing to mature.
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My 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9 is on iOS 10.3.3. I had upgraded to iOS 11 when it launched and my battery life literally halved and stuttering was everywhere more noticeable thanks to the higher refresh rate which makes even the tiniest stutters irritating. Needless to say I went back to iOS 10 and it will stay that way till I get the next iPad. Not going to bother with iOS upgrades on older devices. My iPad Air 2 has had a noticeable drop in performance on iOS 11 and my iPad Pro 12.9 runs extremely fluidly and smoothly on 10. I experienced iOS 11 on it once and that taught me a lesson I would never forget.
I'm done pushing for the ability to downgrade to a previous version of iOS. I'll settle for an option to tell iOS "no longer notify me that an iOS update is available". As a workaround, I've installed the tvOS beta profile on my iPhone SE and iPad Mini 4 (too late for my 12.9 iPad Pro). Should Apple prevent that workaround from working, then that is the time I'm "done" with iOS devices.