Mine too! iOS8 really killed the speed, but 8.1 has really improved everything, and things are a lot snappier. Too bad my iPad air 2 is on its way though, iPad2 is going on eBay!
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iPad 2 iOS 8 Performance
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Mine too! iOS8 really killed the speed, but 8.1 has really improved everything, and things are a lot snappier. Too bad my iPad air 2 is on its way though, iPad2 is going on eBay!
compared to iOS 4 on the 3G... No. at least the 4 was tolerable under 7.0. Yes it was slow and there was lag in certain areas but it was faster and more stable than 4.0 on 3G.
So after playing around with the new update for the last 10 hours or so, I can definitely notice a performance improvement. The first few hours I didn't notice much but I really started to notice it as the day wore on.
I would say It's about where it was with ios 7 imo
I would say It's about where it was with ios 7 imo
8.1has vastly improved performance over 8.0
After the terrible degradation of performance on my iPad 2, I didn't bother with the incremental updates. Mom happy to say that 8.1 has made my iPad run much more quickly. Perhaps not quite as well as 7.whatever the last one was, which was fine for me, but it's no longer rip my hair out frustrating any longer.
After the terrible degradation of performance on my iPad 2, I didn't bother with the incremental updates. Mom happy to say that 8.1 has made my iPad run much more quickly. Perhaps not quite as well as 7.whatever the last one was, which was fine for me, but it's no longer rip my hair out frustrating any longer.
I have 1st gen mini and its very much unbearable. I thought 8.1 will fix it like 7.1 did last year thats why I updated but nothing happens very much slow responses when opening every app and about a second delay when going to app switcher and still safari is so slow and keeps on reloading pages. Hope I can go back to 7 tho and hoping 8.2 or.8.3 still will fix this.
I also have a 1stGen iPad mini. Given your description I'm going to leave my iPad mini and 3rdGen iPad at ios7. Very disappointing that 8.1 is so poor on older devices.
I upgraded my iPad2 a little while ago, 8.1, and Safari was worse, slower and more unresponsive than 8.01 or 02. Thought it was rendered totally unusable. I restarted, or I should say I tried restarting, stared at the apple for over 10 minutes and had to run out. Came back and it was up. It's now about equal to pre-8, Safari speed. Still things about Safari I don't like, but I can live with it now. I'm not planning on a new Air2 for about 2 months, and it will probably be an Xmas gift. Anyway, 8.1 is much better on my iPad that the previous 2 upgrades.
Edit: I just shut it off, waited about a minute, then started up. It was back up in less than a minute. Even though the installation restarts, I think a regular restart may be needed.
Edit: I just shut it off, waited about a minute, then started up. It was back up in less than a minute. Even though the installation restarts, I think a regular restart may be needed.
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I ignored all the articles that said not to put IOS 8.0 on the iPad 2 and found it to be much more sluggish. 8.0.2 fixed it a little. Haven't tried 8.1 yet, but probably will when I get a chance. But having to delete so much off the internal drive sucks.
same exact thing happened to me. now that everything is back to normal the performance is substantially better than 8.0.2
Still on 7.1.2 here on an iPad 2 that's less than a year old, afraid to update even though 8.1 is running fine on my 5th gen iPod touch and their almost the same spec wise (A5 with 512mb ram right ?). Also afraid to lose the opertunity to jailbreak, haven't done it yet but was going to as soon as the warranty was up, might be more tempted to update if iOS 8 wasn't so neutered on the A5 devices as is.
Unless you really need the features, leave it on 7.1.2. The iPad 2 ran 7.1.2 very well and I wish I was still on it at times. Hopefully 8.2 will be more suited to the A5
Mine too! iOS8 really killed the speed, but 8.1 has really improved everything, and things are a lot snappier. Too bad my iPad air 2 is on its way though, iPad2 is going on eBay!
I now have my mums old iPad 2 after she made the mistake of upgrading it (I gave her my Retina Mini in exchange - I already have an iPad Air). iOS 8.1 is an improvement but the overall experience is still very unsatisfactory. I would feel too bad to sell someone this old device. The experience is completely unworthy of a product carrying the Apple logo, and that's what makes the decision to push this update to iPad 2 users such a terrible mistake.
Problems with iOS 8.1
I just updated my iPad2 to use iOS 8.1 I hate hate hate it! All of my Safari bookmarks disappeared!
Is there anyway to uninstall the iOS update or at least restore my bookmarks?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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I just upgraded mine and hate the result
. Does anyone know how to uninstall 8.1 and go back to 7.1.2?
I just updated my iPad2 to use iOS 8.1 I hate hate hate it! All of my Safari bookmarks disappeared!
Is there anyway to uninstall the iOS update or at least restore my bookmarks?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Unless you really need the features, leave it on 7.1.2. The iPad 2 ran 7.1.2 very well and I wish I was still on it at times. Hopefully 8.2 will be more suited to the A5
I just upgraded mine and hate the result
. Does anyone know how to uninstall 8.1 and go back to 7.1.2?
I updated my ipad 2 to IOS 8 and having serious problems with Safari.
Some websites that have many images, real-estate and car sites keep crashing. The error "problems loading this webpage" pops up every two minutes.. and then crashes. I have never had a problem before updating to IOS 8.
I have heard that I will need to buy a new generation ipad.. Surely there is something illegal about this method of doing business?.. I shall never buy another ipad..!!! or Apple product..!!
Some websites that have many images, real-estate and car sites keep crashing. The error "problems loading this webpage" pops up every two minutes.. and then crashes. I have never had a problem before updating to IOS 8.
I have heard that I will need to buy a new generation ipad.. Surely there is something illegal about this method of doing business?.. I shall never buy another ipad..!!! or Apple product..!!
So far its been running well. Works with Handoff/Continuity. Tried Pixelmator and it handled basic use. It's still great for reading and video streaming without a problem.
iOS 7.1 (The one that improved the iPhone 4 massively) was released as a beta in late November and released to the public in March, so I expect a similar thing to happen. A long development time to improve performance. Considering the iPad 2 has the largest market share out of any iPad, you'd be thinking Apple will ensure they improve performance!
IOS 8.1 is better than 7.1.2. While I won't say it runs as fast as it does under IOS 6, IOS 8 does a whole lot more, and it runs quite well. I do notice it bogs down in Safari under heavy web page load the same as it did under ios 7, the same as I remember it did under ios 6.
8.0.2 and 8.1 were broken and unusable with Safari. 8.1.1 restored usability with Safari but it's too soon to tell if it's back to 7.1.2 level. If I were you I'd stick with 7.1.2 if everything works. Don't notice anything different featurewise between 7.1.2 and 8.1.1 anyway.
I'll chime in in about an hour, in the meantime I'll just say that I'm alarmed that anyone's iPad 2 ran with reasonable performance under any iteration of iOS 7 ... Wonder if mine was a lemon Worked fine up until the last couple updates for six, though.
Excited to see if this thing's useable again though, crossed fingers.
Worked fine up until the last couple updates for six, though.Excited to see if this thing's useable again though, crossed fingers.
I'll chime in in about an hour, in the meantime I'll just say that I'm alarmed that anyone's iPad 2 ran with reasonable performance under any iteration of iOS 7 ... Wonder if mine was a lemon
Excited to see if this thing's useable again though, crossed fingers.
I think reasonable is subjective. I wouldn't call the performance under iOS 7.1.2 good, but it's not terrible either. I have to reboot every few days to keep it snappy, but other then that it works well enough.
One reason I didn't update to iOS 8 was I worried how memory intensive games like Clash of Clans would work under iOS 8. It works okay under 7.1.2.
CoC is not memory intensive since it runs on an old 2011 device with 368MB DRAM. Dead Trigger 2 is something I would classify as memory intensive.