iPadOS 26 performance on iPad 9 - better in full screen mode?

[mef613]

Hi - I have an iPad 9 that I installed several of the betas on over the summer. Love the new features and I’m OK with the new look, but performance was much slower. I rolled it back to iPadOS 18 last week, but now have a question: how does performance on lower-end hardware improve if you use only full screen mode? Can anyone with an iPad 9 give it a try?

 

[rui no onna]

Hi - I have an iPad 9 that I installed several of the betas on over the summer. Love the new features and I’m OK with the new look, but performance was much slower. I rolled it back to iPadOS 18 last week, but now have a question: how does performance on lower-end hardware improve if you use only full screen mode? Can anyone with an iPad 9 give it a try?

Honestly, it was just as slow.

With that, stable greatly improved performance over the earlier betas.