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iOS 8 pretty slow on iPad 3. Guess should not have upgraded :(
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That happened to me last year when I had to replace my old iPad because of iOS 7.
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All these updates at once. iPad went first (using it to type this). Iphone and Apple TV in progress.
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I think my iPad was the one prior to the 3. Ios7 was terrible on it. Had to get what is now my current iPad (mini retina).
But not as good as 6.1.2 on my iPad 3.
So what? You're literally sitting there trying to play a mine is better than yours game, and are being of no help to the main question of this thread.
I can sit here and tell you all the ways my ipad is better than yours because of everything it can do that yours can't, even if a little less smoothly.
But who cares? Let's get back to the topic.
Just installed iOS 8 on my iPad 3 and while it doesn't run as smoothly as 7.1.2, it's completely usable. Enjoying the new features. Will be upgrading to a new iPad within the next year anyhow.
Those of you who use the iPad daily and care about smooth animations and dependable responsiveness should wait for the 8.1 update.
I just upgraded my iPad 3 and I am seeing some lagging.
Honestly though, I have seen lagging on most "big" updates for a while. When I got my iPhone 5s, it was laggy for days. I think depending on what you have installed, there is some massive background "stuff" going on*(indexing, TRIMing, cloud syncing... ?) I find it usually goes away.
I will post back in a few days to report if things improve.
Honestly though, I have seen lagging on most "big" updates for a while. When I got my iPhone 5s, it was laggy for days. I think depending on what you have installed, there is some massive background "stuff" going on*(indexing, TRIMing, cloud syncing... ?) I find it usually goes away.
I will post back in a few days to report if things improve.
I installed the GM on my VZW iPad 3 a few days ago. There's one game I use to kill time (some Klondike game) that sucks, but everything else is so much better than iOS 6 or 7.1.2.
I already don't miss iOS 7 and iOS 6. No, it's not an Air - but I do own an LTE Air, and for several apps, including Feedly, Safari, email - iOS 8 doesn't suck nearly as bad as some would lead you to believe. Not looking back here.
I already don't miss iOS 7 and iOS 6. No, it's not an Air - but I do own an LTE Air, and for several apps, including Feedly, Safari, email - iOS 8 doesn't suck nearly as bad as some would lead you to believe. Not looking back here.
Please do, it seems to be running fine on my mini retina but that's to be expected, but I really want some more info from you guys before I upgrade my mums iPad 3. And if it's anything like before Apple will stop you being able to downgrade tomorrow or the day after.
iOS 8 runs OK on the iPad 3 if you're willing to accept that the animations are choppy and the whole experience is very much Android-like.
Really. You guys should stop bashing Android. Android is pretty good now days competing with old days. I have had Motorola Moto G, Nexus 4 as and Nexus 5. None of them shows choppy animations and lag. Only thing I experienced once a while was the lag when return top app drawer and that is about it.
Two pages of posts and barely a reliable review among them. I put iOS 8 on my iPod Touch 5th generation, having no issues with lag or anything. Was going to update the iPad 3 today, but unsure after this thread. Are there any apps to do a comparison test between the two versions, or maybe a website will run some benchmarks?
I would imagine 8 is optimized for the A8 chips, and I am not expecting blazing fast performance from my old 3rd generation. As long as it keeps chugging along at about the same speed it is now I will be happy.
Hoping some other 3rd gen owners who take the leap will chime in here with some good reviews.
I would imagine 8 is optimized for the A8 chips, and I am not expecting blazing fast performance from my old 3rd generation. As long as it keeps chugging along at about the same speed it is now I will be happy.
Hoping some other 3rd gen owners who take the leap will chime in here with some good reviews.
Performance is a bit slower than ios 7, meaning occasionally you will experience a half second to one second pause in animation, like when opening and closing apps. I haven't found any lag within an app, except occasionally when scrolling a dense (probably poorly written) web page (I don't play many games though). If you can "suffer" that for all the new features, then upgrade.
You have to remember that the performance on the iPad 3 is similar to the iPad 2 because, being the first retina screen, it is pushing a significantly greater number of pixels with not that much better of a chip. The a8 will be significantly faster and probably would be a machine that you could keep for a long time but knowing Apple they will hamstring it with only 1 gig of memory yet again.
You have to remember that the performance on the iPad 3 is similar to the iPad 2 because, being the first retina screen, it is pushing a significantly greater number of pixels with not that much better of a chip. The a8 will be significantly faster and probably would be a machine that you could keep for a long time but knowing Apple they will hamstring it with only 1 gig of memory yet again.
Mine too. Not risking 8 though, as I intend to use it until it breaks, rather than being forced to upgrade through slow performance.
My iPad3 runs OK, but Safari loads pages slower than on IOS7. I "forgot" my wifi networks and re-joined, and reset the network settings, and that seems to have helped a little, but not entirely.
After resetting the network, I went to this one site, and got prompted for my iCloud password. Why would that site need access to iCloud? Maybe there's some interaction with iCloud and Safari that's slowing things down.
After resetting the network, I went to this one site, and got prompted for my iCloud password. Why would that site need access to iCloud? Maybe there's some interaction with iCloud and Safari that's slowing things down.
But not as good as 6.1.2 on my iPad 3.
I just checked how many apps i use (very popular apps) require iOS 7. Yeah, have fun with your 6
iOS 7.1 is perfect as of nowI have IOS 8 on my iPad 3. I instantly noticed that Safari was very unsnappy. I say "was" because I just deleted website and cached data, and turned off spotlight suggestions, top hits, and search engine suggestions. I then did a hard reset. It feels snappy again. I hope this snappiness last. I also noticed that the keyboard is pretty responsive in IOS8
Tried the same. But that didn't do it for me. I turned off wifi and turned it on again and now it does work. Not as snappy as before, but it works.
iOS8 runs fine on my iPad 3
although Lego Marvel doesn't currently work and my 4 year old is giving me grief.
although Lego Marvel doesn't currently work and my 4 year old is giving me grief.
Works mostly fine
On my 16 GB iPad 3,
Happy I was able to upgrade to IOS 8 in an hour, not the 16+ hours for my 4S (and it still failed).
On my 16 GB iPad 3,
- Instagram works as good if not better - but it was updated for IOS 8,
- Flipboard - works great - no change,
- Minecraft works great - played for two hours last night,
- Safari was a little sluggish when I had to look up some help for Minecraft but I
attributed that to the site, not Safari - maybe it was Safari...
Happy I was able to upgrade to IOS 8 in an hour, not the 16+ hours for my 4S (and it still failed).
No problems here
I have 64GB LTE iPad3. It runs just fine with IOS 8. No problems, and no slowdown detected at all. It's just as fast as it was before.
A couple of notes:
(1) It took a Looooong time to install, like two hours. And it rebooted maybe five times at the end of the process.
(2) For the first ten minutes, the iPad was exceptionally slow--almost unusably slow. I ran the Monitor app and it showed 100% CPU usage. After about ten minutes that dropped down to 0-10%.
So if you think your device is slow, just let it alone for a while. It's obviously doing some indexing or cleaning up or something in the background after the install.
No issues with Safari either.
I have 64GB LTE iPad3. It runs just fine with IOS 8. No problems, and no slowdown detected at all. It's just as fast as it was before.
A couple of notes:
(1) It took a Looooong time to install, like two hours. And it rebooted maybe five times at the end of the process.
(2) For the first ten minutes, the iPad was exceptionally slow--almost unusably slow. I ran the Monitor app and it showed 100% CPU usage. After about ten minutes that dropped down to 0-10%.
So if you think your device is slow, just let it alone for a while. It's obviously doing some indexing or cleaning up or something in the background after the install.
No issues with Safari either.
I think there is some truth to this. I updated my iPad 2 last night to iOS 8 and noticed that it was really laggy, but it turns out that it was installing app updates in the background (some of them must have been iOS 8-only because the updates did not show up until I upgraded).
My iPhone 5S was also laggy at first after installing the update, but I think that was because Spotlight was rebuilding its indexes. It is much snappier this morning and Spotlight is now displaying a message about the new search sources (that message wasn't there last night after I upgraded).
This choppy animation when closing apps was already present on 7.1.2. If you use your ipad 3 a lot, youll notice it. I mentioned it a while ago and many people denied. Now, in ios 8 it got 10x worse. Ive asked many people to submit bug report and feedback (i did too) and they did it, but apple didnt fix this bug, and instead made it worse. Thank god i looked into this earlier and didnt upgrade to ios 8!
For those who are still not sure about the closing app stutter, watch this youtube vid. http://youtu.be/fLG6g6KM6qU
Watch the WHOLE thing (~6 min) and youll see multiple times going hone screen stutters.
Btw i cant believe some people are still denying the lag. Maybe they use their ipads 10 seconds a day only.
For those who are still not sure about the closing app stutter, watch this youtube vid. http://youtu.be/fLG6g6KM6qU
Watch the WHOLE thing (~6 min) and youll see multiple times going hone screen stutters.
Btw i cant believe some people are still denying the lag. Maybe they use their ipads 10 seconds a day only.