Bro beta 1 and 2 ran like doo doo water on my iPhone 15 Pro… you really can’t judge it, it’s obviously not optimized because why should it be, it’s changing all the time.
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Can you link to evidence this is the case? Because not even Samsung equivalents of MacRumors sites have been able to confirm it’s a commitment to providing 7 years of full OS updates. If you have a credible source, that would be genuinely insightful information.
here you go https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/popup/popup_doc/AYmMNNiq_HsAIx-n/
the page is for the ultra but the plus has the exact same policy.
The doubts you might have read about was probably about the FE (mid-range models) where things have not been as clear and some say it's 7 years of security updates but only 5 or 6 of OS updates (which honestly is probably for the better since these device have less powerful hardware and could be impacted more but feature updates while long term compatibility of apps on Android is much less of an issue than on iPadOS)
The main issue is probably RAM. Apple has historically been stingy with RAM on iPads. Since iOS 12 in 2018 the OS has increased the amount of RAM it takes to function and 2018 pros, other than the 1TB model (which is the one I own) only have 4 just like the first gen pro and that's probably tight for iPadOS 26 (just like 1GB was tight for iOS 9). Having said that the beta might be the issue there, since even my M1 has slowed down (and I am on beta 4). How much it's the beta and how much impact will have the final OS it's speculation at this point.
Performance is a little better on the latest beta. My 2018 iPad Pro no longer feels as laggy, in the least.
On my M1 I have seen a clear improment in standby drain, now it's essentially like it was on 18.5
I am a bit hesitant to move to the public beta from the beta 4, as I don't know if it's identical or not...
First of all does not kill devices and secondly I usually never run a beta of an operating system on my devices. Thirdly leave the testing to the experts and people who know what they are doing.
Look I am a student in HK and I own an M1 iPad Air. Even then it didn't work well and on Beta 1 and 2 I had to repeatedly restart it for it to work better... Apple really needs to fix its beta and find a way for it to run macOS or else I swear I will never buy an iPad higher than 3500 HKD.
Pixel tablets, the same as Pixel phones, have 7 years of updates guaranteed actually.It's still amazing support compared to the competition. Samsung hardly bother to support their tablets, even when you buy a $1299 ultra. Quarterly updates and prioritised below even their budget smartphone range. As for Google, they gave it another go for one year (Pixel Tablet) and gave up.
The OS update policy for the Pixel Tablet includes software version updates for at least 3 years and Pixel security updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the U.S..
And it's more than 2 years old at this point, so not much left of that.
My bad - you’re right. I thought I read that it was the same as pixel 8 onwards, but I stand corrected.
Only Samsung in their Tab S line currently offers updates in line with what Apple does with iPad pro/air. One thing that should be said however is that on Android apps stay compatible for much longer than on iPadOS.
OTOH, the Dev 1 Beta runs acceptably well on my iPad Mini 5.
The Settings app crashed quite frequently, sure. But unreliability is expected for a Beta.
I just installed the beta on my 2020 iPad Pro 11”.
The UI seems to struggle to hit 120fps with ProMotion enabled. Massive let down as the main reason I bought a Pro over the iPad Air was the 120 Hz ProMotion display.
I’m going to give it a day or 2 before deciding if I should pull the plug and just keep my iPad Pro on iPadOS 18 till it dies.
The UI seems to struggle to hit 120fps with ProMotion enabled. Massive let down as the main reason I bought a Pro over the iPad Air was the 120 Hz ProMotion display.
I’m going to give it a day or 2 before deciding if I should pull the plug and just keep my iPad Pro on iPadOS 18 till it dies.
You may wish to just pull the beta software and try again with the production release. Many things get better with the gold versions.
problem is that you need to be very careful cause you may not be able to go back at some point
The OP has already made up his mind with giving up the iPad, no matter what advice you give here.
When you write ”finally” in the headline you have already decided to discard it, and also the person haven’t replied to anyone here.
But it’s quite impressive that a 2018 iPad gets 7 years of updates.
Still rocking a 11” iPad Pro 2020 and hopefully it will get some more updates after iPadOS 26🙂
When you write ”finally” in the headline you have already decided to discard it, and also the person haven’t replied to anyone here.
But it’s quite impressive that a 2018 iPad gets 7 years of updates.
Still rocking a 11” iPad Pro 2020 and hopefully it will get some more updates after iPadOS 26🙂
Apple has been quite consistent with updates since 2014, I even made a matrix of updates 2 years ago in a post here to predict all the updates for the following 8 years and so far no exceptions.
The 2020 pro will get iPadOS 27 and will stop there.
Unrelated but funny, ask your favorite AI about which generation uses the word garbage for effect
I don’t use AI, but one says gen Z and the other one said “sorry, I cannot reply to this”, or something like that.
I don’t know, what do you see when you ask?