iPad Air Would resetting and re-installing fewer apps make my iPad Air2 run better?

[VideoBeagle]

I have an old iPad Air 2.

It's not used for much. Just some browsing, a recipe manager..notes. kitchen stuff.

It's ridiculously sluggish and ...pausey...

I'm wondering if I were to do a factory reset and just install the stuff I use (it still has most of the stuff from when it was my main ipad on it)..would that make it perform better? (verseus this not being worth the effort?)

 

[It’s always something]

Installed apps don’t affect that. Apps in use at the same time could conceivably affect it. Having a ton of Safari tabs open might do that too.

 

[chown33]

It looks like nearly half the 64GB is free, so I doubt that removing things would make much difference.

The simplest to remove is probably the photos and videos. Make sure you empty the trash or clean out Recently Deleted, otherwise the files will still be there. Also make sure it won't sync to the stored iCloud versions.

If you wanted to experiment more , you could remove individual apps using General > iPad Storage, viewing the list by Size. That's on my iPadOS 18.7.2 mini 5. I'm not sure it's the same settings sequence on your 15.8.6 iPadOS.

 

[TheBeverage]

Honestly? Not worth the effort. That chip probably should never have gotten iOS 15 to begin with, and it's only going to run worse with modern apps and websites. Any iPad from this decade would be a huge improvement, I'm sure you can find one for cheap.

 

[rui no onna]

Honestly? Not worth the effort. That chip probably should never have gotten iOS 15 to begin with, and it's only going to run worse with modern apps and websites. Any iPad from this decade would be a huge improvement, I'm sure you can find one for cheap.

Yeah. Honestly, the Air 2 was kinda limping already even on iOS 12.

 

[Apple_Robert]

In my opinion, it isn't worth your time. I would get a newer iPad.

 

[Palindrom]

I have an air 2 here which I use here and there just for the sake of enjoying how thin and light it is to use.

I did reset it to factory settings some time ago. It doesn’t affect performance though.

What made it a bit better to use was to „reduce motion“ under the accessibility settings. Try for yourself but don’t bother resetting it to factory settings