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Calling ipad 3 owners how comfortable are you with IOS 7 ?
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I like the new functionality on my iPad 3. Performance is OK, although the keyboard is a bit sluggish sometimes. I have no crashes, everything is running fine.
iOS 7.0.3 runs fine. The five finger gesture still annoys the hell out of me though. It's weird. Especially when pinching from Safari, the background is just a big blur until the very last moment! I have no idea how Apple think that's normal behaviour 
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?I waited until about last week to update. I have to say, for me, it has been a mistake. One of the primary uses in my family is using Home Sharing for movies. This seems to have serious problems. We get permission errors and stalled movies constantly. These were not an issue in 6.
The only reason I updated was because occasionally a movie would fail to pause or quit when leaving the app or putting the iPad to sleep. The audio would run until the device was shutdown in rare but recurring situations. I'd say stay on 6 if you don't have any serious issues yet.
The only reason I updated was because occasionally a movie would fail to pause or quit when leaving the app or putting the iPad to sleep. The audio would run until the device was shutdown in rare but recurring situations. I'd say stay on 6 if you don't have any serious issues yet.
It's working fine for me. I started getting all kinds of glitches with my apps under iOS 6.1.3. They were updated for iOS7 and even the updater was freaking out. I couldn't make it behave no matter what I did.
Everything is pretty smooth now under iOS7.
Everything is pretty smooth now under iOS7.
My iPad 3 runs fine as of 7.0.3, typing is a lot better now, used to lag a little but now an awful lot better.
Personally I'm one of these people that feel like my device is slow the second a new one is out, so I think that might be the reason its "slow" to some including myself.
Its very usable though, nothing like the iPad 1 on iOS5, or the iPhone 3G on iOS4 sorts of issues.
Personally I'm one of these people that feel like my device is slow the second a new one is out, so I think that might be the reason its "slow" to some including myself.
Its very usable though, nothing like the iPad 1 on iOS5, or the iPhone 3G on iOS4 sorts of issues.
Works great for me on 7.0.3 on iPad 3. I do have "reduce motion" turned on so the animations are mostly simple fade in/out which is fine by me.
I would say my battery drains a tiny bit faster, but my device is also 1.5 years old and gets used every day so I'm not surprised that the battery is starting to fade a bit.
I would say my battery drains a tiny bit faster, but my device is also 1.5 years old and gets used every day so I'm not surprised that the battery is starting to fade a bit.
Don't forget with iOS7 on iPad – you LOSE the cool Photo Frame button from the lock screen. Meaning you can't just plonk your iPad to charge on the dock and hit the Photo Frame button... You'd have to set one going from the Photo app.
I'm holding out upgrading until they reinstate this feature (fingers crossed).
I'm holding out upgrading until they reinstate this feature (fingers crossed).
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That is something that I seldom, if ever used, and hence do not miss it, at all.
My usage of iOS 7 on my iPads, a 2 and a 3, aka "new iPad", has been well worth installing iOS 7. I like the control center, multi-tasking menu, etc. Truth be told, there is nothing that would keep my iPads on anything less than 7.
As to battery life, that, under iOS 7, has been awesome for me.
People who say they aren't having issues at all just kid themselves. Should consider selling their iPad 3.
Have an ipad 3 WIFI+Verizon LTE. Was jailbroken on ios 6.1.x IIRC. Started looking and really, other than the mail notifications icon in the tray and color mail labels, all my tweaks were either now incorporated in some way or were just not that important (I do kind of miss color mail labels since I have three email accounts, but that's it) I did an upgrade on top of the JB ios and have no issues at all.
I have an iphone 5 for work and one as a personal phone. The work one came with ios 7 and after using it a few days, I decided to upgrade the ipad. I am teetering on whether to upgrade my personal phone to ios 7 also. If it were jailbroken it would be a no brainer of course, but honestly, I think I can deal with it.
I have an iphone 5 for work and one as a personal phone. The work one came with ios 7 and after using it a few days, I decided to upgrade the ipad. I am teetering on whether to upgrade my personal phone to ios 7 also. If it were jailbroken it would be a no brainer of course, but honestly, I think I can deal with it.
Thanks for telling me to sell my iPad....when its working fine for me with iOS7!!
I've run a couple of the betas on it then all the full versions and the battery is lasting for ages and it runs perfectly fine for what i use it for. I have no reason to be kidding myself!
That's literally the only reason why I'm not upgrading the iPad... I can't believe they removed it, even as an option.
Exactly! I mean who takes photos with their iPad?
They could easily fit the 2 icons next to each other - OR - give us the option to pick Photo Frame or Camera.
I HATE it when Apple REMOVE perfectly decent working features from software....
Don't get me started on Places *sigh*
In order for me to upgrade from 5.1.1 the OS would have to run smoother wrt animations, keyboard lag, fix the crashes. My iPad 3 runs ultra smooth with 5.1.1 and besides I love the look of the apps. So I have my iPad 2 on 7.0.3 and it runs decent but not as smooth as iOS 5 or 6