Thank you Apple...

[agaskew]

...for rendering my iPad totally useless.

I resisted iOS 8 for a long time, but finally decided to drop it on to my 3rd Gen iPad.

What the ***? Its utterly, completely, ballachingly Useless! Slow, slow, slow. Animations are a joke, Safari cant show a web site for its life, Onenote is unusable. Show running apps via duble click? Go and make a coffee while you wait.

And yes, I did do a clean wipe and install from scratch. I did not restore from a backup.

So, its wiped again, switched off and consigned to the "drawer full of old crap I'll never use again."

Thanks Apple. You bunch of crooks.

 

[Rodster]

Well, it's your fault. You should have resisted longer. While Apple should never have included the iPad 3 for iOS 8 support, you chose to upgrade. Now you maybe saying, BS and that's harsh.

Well I also have an iPad 3 and it's still happily running iOS 5.1.1 as I knew what a total cluster**** iOS 7 was thanks to Jony Ive.

 

[dejo]

I am running iOS 8.3 on my iPad 2 and, although it can be occasionally slow, it is far from useless.

 

[agaskew]

I think the iPad3 is actually worse than other iPad2s in the house, on iOS8.

 

[s2mikey]

I think the iPad3 is actually worse than other iPad2s in the house, on iOS8.

They are. The iPad 2 is better than the 3 in every way except for the screen but that screen is what kills the iPad 3 since it doesn't have enough power to run it properly. Plenty of slow and almost useless iPad 3s put there, unfortunately.

 

[username:]

That sucks. It probably is little consolation, but you can if you want downgrade to iOS 6 or 7:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/02/16/how-to-downgrade-ipad-2-to-ios-6-2015/

http://www.macworld.com/article/2687162/how-to-downgrade.html

 

[WeatherMate]

Downgrading to iOS 7 would be better.