My iPad Air is very slow with changing its wallpaper. The whole process takes roughly 20-30 seconds. I work with interior design and decorating, and I'm using the iPad exclusively for changing wallpaper over 8-12 hours 6 days / week. What can I do?
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All iPads iPad Air - SLOW for changing wallpaper
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That's funny, about changing your iPad wallpaper full-time
Unless you meant it, literally, that it's what your work with design and decorating entails, then I apologize My iPad 4 did the same thing, taking a very long time to list and apply wallpaper changes. On my iPad Air, it's instant. I suspect it's because I haven't yet transferred my entire photo library over. Still though, on the iPad 4 while it was still on iOS 6, using the same photo library it changed wallpaper much more quickly.
Works fine here. Did you restore from backup or setup as new?
I setup as new and haven't seen any lag at all!
I setup as new and haven't seen any lag at all!
i dont have the air, but the mini, and i have noticed after updating to ios 7 changing the wallpaper is much slower. So it might be an ios 7 problem not ipad air.
No, it isn't simply down to iOS 7. My iPad 3 was slow changing wallpapers but my new Air is virtually instantaneous. And that's with both of them set up from the same backup.
I have 5 devices running ios7. 3 of which ran all the beta versions. Wallpapers have lagged since beta 3 when they added parallax effect.
I thought it was fixed in iOS 7.0.3 because my ipad 2 can change wallpapers as fast as iOS 6 did. I think the op should reboot or restore.
Anecdotes don't tell the whole story. Of the three devices I've run iOS 7 on, only the iPad 3 (now sold) lagged while changing wallpapers. Both the iPhone 5s and iPad Air in my possession function perfectly, although others are reporting problems. This would tend to indicate that the issue is more complex than simply being a bug in iOS 7.
10 secs tops, and that's navigating from my home screen to my utilities sub folder to get to settings then going to wallpaper, choosing positioning and setting. Wasn't even rushing through the process.
Try rebooting. My ipad 3 was like that. Not the air. I rebooted a few times after restoring from backup and the airis super speedy. I used to also see lag in the kindle app with my 3. All gone now.
Maybe I should be more specific. I use the iPad Air exclusively for changing it wallpaper. So any delay with changing wallpaper can be excruciating.
As an interior designer and decorator, wallpaper makes up most of the work I deal with. Instead of putting samples up, it's much easier to just change it on the iPad.
As an interior designer and decorator, wallpaper makes up most of the work I deal with. Instead of putting samples up, it's much easier to just change it on the iPad.
The Air is at least twice as fast as the iPad 4 in changing wallpaper, (3-4 seconds as opposed to 8-10 seconds).
If you are just showing off a wallpaper wouldn't it be easier to just use the photos app and flick between the images you want to show?
So did I, if I'm honest.
I just thought I would give the benefit of the doubt and try and give a normal answer to a strange question
.Just did a video to settle this once and for all:
http://youtu.be/vMDp5oa76hc
Seems to be perfectly fine to me. Potential troll trying to harm the reputation of the Air by posting negative things that happen on previous iPads? (iPad 3 for example was very slow changing the wallpaper). Failing that maybe he restored an iCloud backup from a previous iPad? If that's the case restoring the device and setting it up as new should resolve. I resisted restoring from a backup for these kind of reasons.
http://youtu.be/vMDp5oa76hc
Seems to be perfectly fine to me. Potential troll trying to harm the reputation of the Air by posting negative things that happen on previous iPads? (iPad 3 for example was very slow changing the wallpaper). Failing that maybe he restored an iCloud backup from a previous iPad? If that's the case restoring the device and setting it up as new should resolve. I resisted restoring from a backup for these kind of reasons.
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