IPad 1 - Upgrade OS?

[elgrecomac]

I just received and iPad 1 running 4.3.1. Should I upgrade to the current iOS or leave it be? What are the advantages/disadvantages?


Thank you, in advance for your advice.

 

[nickn]

The rest of the forum will kill me on this, but no, I would strongly suggest you stay with iOS 4 for as long as possible. The second I installed iOS 5 my whole iPad 1 tanked. Apps crash constantly, and overall performance is worse. I also lost features with iOS 5, such as the ability to network print to non HP printers, or run banned apps, so you might want to consider those things too.

 

[HiddenPuppy]

I just received and iPad 1 running 4.3.1. Should I upgrade to the current iOS or leave it be? What are the advantages/disadvantages?


Thank you, in advance for your advice.

Will not "kill" the other poster on this, I am sure that his experience is true and that it was not good for his iPad. On mine it is great. Now what happened with mine and it may have made a difference is that I received mine as a gift and the other person erased all of his info and redid the iPad as a new machine and upgraded the OS. Since it was not an upgrade with all the programs and other stuff on it, that could have been why mine works great. I don't know, but it does work great.

Have a great day,
HiddenPuppy

 

[WestonHarvey1]

iOS 5.1 works beautifully on my iPad 1. No performance or stability issues to note.