Hello all, I am not using iOS 7 yet. I was thinking about purchasing either a 4th gen iPad or iPad mini soon and wanted to inquire how good/bad the performance is on these models, particularly the iPad mini? I know it is beta so there will be things wrong that make performance hard to judge, I just worry about buying a mini now and it not being capable after a year.
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iOS 7 performance on iPad
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It's laggy on my iPad 4 (Beta 3) keyboard lags, animation lags. Hopefully that'll be fixed in beta 4/5/6/7.
Did you do a Reset All Settings, or Erase All Content and Settings? I had a laggy keyboard which was rectified by using erase.
I've been thinking about that, just worried a new mini won't release this year. Might try and hold out, just hard when you have the itch to buy
I've been thinking about that, just worried a new mini won't release this year. Might try and hold out, just hard when you have the itch to buy
They'll probably release it. It's the Retina display which may or may not be included.
I had lag on my iPad mini. I ended up going back to iOS 6. I am one that hopes it gets fixed also. We will see.
I have it on my iPad mini, and I love it. I really don't have anything stronger to compare it to, but I can at least say confidently that I have had far less problems on my mini and my iPhone 4 than 90% of the people here. iOS 7 has a couple of hiccups here and there on both devices, but I haven't had a single crash, or anything major since beta 3 came. As far as holding out for a new one.. I'd say why wait. As much as I'd like a retina display, I can't really see how they could without changing the form factor of something that's so nice to hold now. It would suck up too much power, meaning bigger battery, meaning thicker shell needed. If anything it'll be a Mini S and just be a little faster. To say it needs a retina display is to say what it has now needs improvement, and honestly, it's not that bad at all.I've been thinking about that, just worried a new mini won't release this year. Might try and hold out, just hard when you have the itch to buy
I did a clean install on an iPad mini and it performs very well indeed - better than I was expecting for an early beta. There are small moments of lag but nothing too intrusive and I would expect final code without the associated logging to run very smoothly on the currently iPad mini. To summarise, I haven't seen anything in the beta that put me off running an iPad mini with IOS 7.
Yes to the beta thing you said, it's hard to tell, if you buy an iPad today, you will be good for at least two years, and the final version of iOS 7 will run as it is supposed to be.
Now, saying that, I would wait, in 2-3 months Apple will launch the new iPhone and some new iPads, they might include a "secret" new feature for those, so yeah, I would wait.
Beta 3 was unusable on my iPad 3, clean install.
Laggy wasn't the word for it.
If I put my finger, even near the screen, it would crash.
Been using it with my iPhone 5 for 2 weeks without serious issue, nice and snappy on there.
Hoping beta4 fixes the iPad issues.
Laggy wasn't the word for it.
If I put my finger, even near the screen, it would crash.
Been using it with my iPhone 5 for 2 weeks without serious issue, nice and snappy on there.
Hoping beta4 fixes the iPad issues.
So much conflicting info on the future of the iPad Mini:
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/2...-to-coming-later-no-retina-ipad-mini-in-2014/
The analysts don't necessarily know what they're talking about. They also say different things.
After the iPad 3/4 releases being so close caused a mini uproar, why would Apple release two iPad Minis so close to each other? That would be a terrible idea and I don't see Apple doing it.
They could be wrong about the March/April release of the Retina mini. They're only analysts after all.
So far I have b3 installed on my Mini but not my iPad 3 and well I must say I am really liking it.. haven't run into too many bugs or lags other than the lock screen. Overall though I would say iOS 7 is running pretty smoothly on the iPad Mini
