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How is performance on iPad 2 ?, still running 7.1.2
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Typical of such a question on this forum, I'm afraid...
In my opinion if you are happy with the current configuration just keep it.
iPad 2 is very old hardware.
In my opinion iPad 2 and original Mini had to be limited to iOS 6, but I understand that Apple wanted to sell them for a couple years more so they basically extended support for them until today.Your mistake was updating your iPad 2 to 7.1.2.
Should've stayed on 6.1.3.
But hardware wise I agree with you: iOS 6.1 was as far as they could go.
I just updated my iPad 2 16 GB to 9.0.1 (coming from 8.4.1). Nothing spectacular happened; the update didn't render it unusable, it also didn't become lightning fast. Last year's 8.0 update was much worse, and only after 8.3 it came back to life.
From what I remember, 7.1.2 ran really well, so updating to 9.0.1 might mean you'll see a performance drop. But so far I am fine. We have to see how things develop in a couple of days. It is something I experienced with 8.3, it was very slow for some weeks, and then without any reason, it became snappy again. Luckily 8.4.1 kept it like that
And, I didn't do a fresh install; but I ran the update via iTunes (not OTA).
From what I remember, 7.1.2 ran really well, so updating to 9.0.1 might mean you'll see a performance drop. But so far I am fine. We have to see how things develop in a couple of days. It is something I experienced with 8.3, it was very slow for some weeks, and then without any reason, it became snappy again. Luckily 8.4.1 kept it like that
And, I didn't do a fresh install; but I ran the update via iTunes (not OTA).
I just updated my iPad 2 16 GB to 9.0.1 (coming from 8.4.1). Nothing spectacular happened; the update didn't render it unusable, it also didn't become lightning fast. Last year's 8.0 update was much worse, and only after 8.3 it came back to life.
From what I remember, 7.1.2 ran really well, so updating to 9.0.1 might mean you'll see a performance drop. But so far I am fine. We have to see how things develop in a couple of days. It is something I experienced with 8.3, it was very slow for some weeks, and then without any reason, it became snappy again. Luckily 8.4.1 kept it like that
And, I didn't do a fresh install; but I ran the update via iTunes (not OTA).
As usual totally different opinions on the same matter.... And as usual I tend to believe at the moderate opinion
If that's true, you have some app (FB?) that's killing your device. The Mini 2 runs fine on iOS 9.
That's about how my wife's iPad 2 is running/has run. The comment about sticking with iOS 6 wasn't wrong, in a way. The problem is that there are a lot of apps and functions that you give up. It's old hardware - surprising it's still supported at all. Pick your poison, there's no really perfect answer...
Would not recommend it. Even with Apple's attempts to improve functionality on older devices, newer versions of ios just aren't as optimized for devices the older they get. I'm of the opinion that Apple devices reach a point where you should stop upgrading them. The iPad 2 is very old at this point and will probably be dropped with ios 10.
ios 7.1.2 is a good version and is definitely not too old that it will be left behind yet by app developers. I would imagine that by time it's starting to lose support you'll be looking to upgrade anyway. It's possible you're experience will be fine with ios 9, but it's a pretty big risk since you can't go back if it's performance is bad.
ios 7.1.2 is a good version and is definitely not too old that it will be left behind yet by app developers. I would imagine that by time it's starting to lose support you'll be looking to upgrade anyway. It's possible you're experience will be fine with ios 9, but it's a pretty big risk since you can't go back if it's performance is bad.
I updated it on the iPad2 I have. The thing still lags but is much more usable with reduce motion/stop the seasick parallax effect selected.
I found my ipad2 runs ok on 9.0.1. it sometimes gets "stuck" for a few seconds when switching apps or bringing up a keyboard. Overall i think it ran better on 8.4.1 but is it's decent enough for me for my usage.
(On the other hand lag/delays on my iPhone 5 were driving me nuts, so it downgrade back to 8.4.1 on that one.)
(On the other hand lag/delays on my iPhone 5 were driving me nuts, so it downgrade back to 8.4.1 on that one.)
Things are generally more responsive on my iPhone 6 Plus 128 gig model except it does seem that the icons are more demanding about where (must be in the exact center of the icon so best tapped directly from above) and how hard you press them to get them to respond (generally twice to three times the effort of the previous OS).
No. I have an Air 2. I had an iPad 2 since release and following the upgrade to iOS 8 it was near to useless.
My kids have the original iPad minis which basically have the same internals as the iPad 2. They are on iOS 9 and it seems to be fine. But they do just do kid things with it.
Crawl like a worm.Sometimes I want to punch iPad specially when scrolling pages with photos.Touchscreen is unresponsive too.
Look, iOS 7 is the ideal OS for iPad 2, iOS 8 is ruined every thing on middle aged and old devices, iOS 9 fixes how old devices used to perform with iOS 8. It runs perfectly on my brothers iPad mini 1 which has the same iPad 2 internals but still not like iOS 7.
iOS 9 runs better than 8 on my iPhone 6...
Anecdotal evidence
Ars Technica did a test with 8.4.1 vs 9.0.0 GM and found out that's basically the same:
APPLICATION IOS 8.4.1 IOS 9.0 GM
Safari 2.53 seconds 2.73 seconds
Camera 1.4 seconds 1.32 seconds
Settings 1.65 seconds 1.73 seconds
Mail 1.89 seconds 1.95 seconds
Messages 1.38 seconds 1.65 seconds
Calendar 1.55 seconds 1.53 seconds
Cold boot 32.22 seconds 35.22 seconds
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/0...t-worse-than-ios-8-but-missing-many-features/
But you get lots and lots of bugs, specially security vulnerabilities fixed!
I thought that only let you downgrade from 9.x to 8.4.1 ?, how did you then go to 7.1.2 ?. Just wondering cause if you can go back to 7.1.2, I might take the plunge seeing as Ill have nothing to lose
If you don't have SHSH blobs, you can only go to 8.4.1 (using OdysseusOTA2), and I'm not sure whether the firmware bundles are done yet. Also, I don't think going to 8.4.1 is a good move - Safari is actually more stable and usable on 9.x, even if a bit slower, but page reloads and strange behavior when navigating back is much better on 9.x.
If you have saved your SHSH blobs for any other version, you can go back to that version using the "regular" Odysseus. It's a bit of an involved procedure, but it works. You need to have a jailbreak, though. So if you are on 9.0.2 and have blobs for 7.1.2, you are good to go.
If you have saved your SHSH blobs for any other version, you can go back to that version using the "regular" Odysseus. It's a bit of an involved procedure, but it works. You need to have a jailbreak, though. So if you are on 9.0.2 and have blobs for 7.1.2, you are good to go.