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iOS 8 pretty slow on iPad 3. Guess should not have upgraded :(

iOS 8 pretty slow on iPad 3. Guess should not have upgraded :(

It will tell you you have an update after you plug it in and open itunes. It will give you the option to download and install or just download. And yes short of a wipe https probably the best method.


apolloa said:
Well from reading this thread it seems iOS8 is no worst then 7.1. If I plug the iPad 3 into a Mac, do I just select to search for updates in iTunes and then update from there?

And then leave it turned on overnight plugged into its charger, and then hard reset it with the power and home buttons the next day and Al, will be good :)



Is that the best way to do it?
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I downgraded my ipad 3 to 7.1.2... And it is so much more fluid. No more stutters and freezing apps. No more blank home screen bookmark icons.
 
Well I'm considering doing the update later. It seems most people aren't having issues with the ipad3 just a few. I hope.
 
I upgraded to iOS 8 on my iPad 3, used it for a couple of days. It's too laggy, stutters too much. Just downgraded to 7.1.2. Much better. I'll try again after a few updates come out that address older devices.
 
JohnGrey said:
I'm sorry that your iOS 8 experience leaves something to be desired, but I don't appreciate the insinuation that anyone that finds the device to work as before is somehow being dishonest, whether in support of an agenda or no.
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Classy response to a classless post.
 
joejoejoe said:
who else can is running ios 8 on an ipad 3?

interested to hear more thoughts before I upgrade
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I am not a happy camper with ios 8 on my ipad 3. Safari, and chrome lag so bad it is next to unusable. It's not that the ipad 3 is not powerful enough to adequately run ios 8 because it's not. It's that apple didn't warn which devices would not be able to run ios 8 smoothly before upgrading, and is not providing a downgrade path to ios 7. This is totally unacceptable, and if this is apples way of trying to force a hardware upgrade then they will... to an android device, or surface pro 3.
 
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iOS 8 pretty slow on iPad 3. Guess should not have upgraded :(

Ok here's what I found. After wipe and restore everything is pretty much the same as 7. I would definitely wipe it after backing up. Air supremacy and nfs shift crash on loading. Hot pursuit and most other games work just fine. So we will see how it goes. Would I go back. To get those air supremacy working yes. But my guess is the dev is working on it. Other than that it about the same.
Oh one last thing Safari is faster and smoother much smoother. Not sure if it's 8 or the wipe.
Divide doesn't work either.
 
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Definitely give 24 hours. Mine was a little choppy after the initial iOS 8 boot, but it doesn't feel worse than iOS 7 after a day or two.

True - it's not as slick as it was, but the iPad 3 is the ugly stepchild of the product line up.
 
Mine was choppy on keyboard input but the major problem was apps wouldn't download from the app store and some apps would crash or not download content data.

I ended up wiping and setting it up as a new iPad. That seems to have fixed it. At least last night.

I want to continue to use this for awhile. The 3 does what I want out of it. Has LTE and Retina. The main downside to me is the old connector cable, having to carry 2 kinds around since it isn't lightning like my phone.
 
Unusable?

Steviejobz said:
Really slow. Almost unusable.
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Slower yes. The user interface, switching between apps is not as responsive, and I think that some pages take more time to load.

But unusable no.

I find it pathetic when people complain about something that could have been be foreseen, that even happened to them before, such as upgrading the iPad 3 to iOS 7.0:eek:. iOS8 offers some new sexy features, but if you can't deal with the consequences, keep your hands off. By the way, in real life worse things may happen if you resist anything but temptation.:cool:
 
unacceptable?

cranster said:
I am not a happy camper with ios 8 on my ipad 3. Safari, and chrome lag so bad it is next to unusable. It's not that the ipad 3 is not powerful enough to adequately run ios 8 because it's not. It's that apple didn't warn which devices would not be able to run ios 8 smoothly before upgrading, and is not providing a downgrade path to ios 7. This is totally unacceptable, and if this is apples way of trying to force a hardware upgrade then they will... to an android device, or surface pro 3.
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Like I wrote before, it happened to the iPad 3 when it was upgraded to iOS7, and it happens again. Big surprise :eek:. Every user with more than a single-digit IQ could have foreseen this, so please don't complain that Apple didn't warn you. Worse things may happen to you in real life
 
My mom has an iPad 3 (my old one) still running iOS 6.1 and I want to upgrade it to iOS 8 for phone call and SMS relay. I saw on Apple's webpage that Continuity/Handoff is only supported on the iPhone 5 and newer, and the iPad 4 and newer. Do phone call and SMS relay work on the iPad 3? Also, is performance worse than iOS 7 or are they more or less similar? Would a factory reset help with performance issues?

My mom accidentally installed iOS 8 on her iPhone 5 and to me, it was just as smooth as iOS 7.1. It actually seemed much smoother than the initial iOS 7.0 release and I haven't seen any sign of glitchiness thus far on the iPhone 5. Of course, the iPhone 5 is running A6 as well as having much less pixels to drive compared to the iPad 3.
 
I don't plan on buying a new iPad any time soon so I took the plunge and installed 8.0 on my iPad 3.
Its working great, but I was expecting some stutter with a new OS on an older device. There is quite a bit of stutter in Safari, not so much anywhere else.

In short, it runs great - not perfect. I can't imagine how an iPad 2 would handle iOS 8.

It's probably the last iOS my iPad will support, so I might as well keep up with the joneses.
 
poorcody said:
I will post back in a few days to report if things improve.
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Okay, it's been a few days so I thought I would report back. Things definitely improved day by day... less stuttering and lagging. Can't say it is gone though. Swiping home screens and bringing up multitasker will still lag at times. Totally useable though, just noticeable.

Safari was doing a lot of lagging on scrolling. It too has improved but still won't scroll at times.

It's all totally useable, just a little disappointing. I did an upgrade install (not a clean one).
 
rui no onna said:
Do phone call and SMS relay work on the iPad 3?
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No, you need one of the supported devices which for iPad is 4 or newer.
Also, is performance worse than iOS 7 or are they more or less similar? Would a factory reset help with performance issues?
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This all depends on who you talk too. It is so hard to make heads or tails of all the conflicting reports. I have seen an iPad 4 with iOS 8 on it and other than a few quirks it seemed fine and similar to iOS 7. I have an iPad 4 and iOS 7 has places that lag too so I'm not sure 8 is any worse.
My friend has an iPad 2 and he swears it works just as well as iOS 7 did.

I will be doing 4 or 5 updates next week at work on various iPads so I will find out myself what it is truly like.
Update: it seems that the phone features may indeed work with iPad 2 and 3, despite what the requirements state. There is another thread here about iPad 2 performance where they talk about it.
 
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Kenneth D said:
It will tell you you have an update after you plug it in and open itunes. It will give you the option to download and install or just download. And yes short of a wipe https probably the best method.
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Ok, so tonight I plugged it into my computer, backed it up, then unplugged it and re-connected it and selected to download and install the update, after the install was finished I hard reset the iPad, then ran all the app updates, then hard reset again and have left it in plugged into its charger and sleep mode and turned on since. So will test it out tomorrow but so far I have to say it seems fine to me :)
 
Very happy with iPad 3 iOS 8 performance so far. There is noticeable lag on some actions, for me 1-2 seconds to bring up the app switcher after double-tapping home or 4 finger swipe, but it is no worse than early iOS 7 releases. That is about the only negative I have to report. Everything else seems to actually be an improvement over 7.1.2 for me.
 
I've only upgraded my Air, not my 3 or our my phones. I'm going to wait it out. Probably won't upgrade until the first minor update, and only if most people are getting positive results on the older hardware.
 
iOS 8 pretty slow on iPad 3. Guess should not have upgraded :(

I had to downgrade. Too many of the apps I use don't work and the extra stuttering was driving me nuts. The benefits didn't outweigh the loss in performance.
 
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I had no slowdown at all on my Mini Retina or iPhone 5s. Maybe these OS updates are only good for hardware that's a year old or less.
 
The only issue I am having with IOS8 on Ipad 3 is I am not getting some push notifications but I think that is because some of the app developers haven't updated.
 
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