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iPad Air 2 horrible performance with iOS 11
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The new 2017 iPad is insanely affordable and powerful if you don't need the Pro features. There's a new iPad available for all budgets.
Upgraded both iPad Air 2 and iPhone 7 plus to iOS 11 within a day or two after release.
Both devices have had insane levels of stuttering and pauses. Typing is intolerable at times - 5-10 second delays.
Rebooted both - no change. Even basic Apple apps have the same issues. Gaming is a crapshoot - don't know if there will be a 5 second pause at a random point.
It's not a storage issue - I have over 128G free on the phone, and over 30G free on the iPad.
Have removed several apps without and difference.
Only thing I haven't done is a full reset, but I may have to do that.
In general, I'm not impressed with the quality of this release.
Both devices have had insane levels of stuttering and pauses. Typing is intolerable at times - 5-10 second delays.
Rebooted both - no change. Even basic Apple apps have the same issues. Gaming is a crapshoot - don't know if there will be a 5 second pause at a random point.
It's not a storage issue - I have over 128G free on the phone, and over 30G free on the iPad.
Have removed several apps without and difference.
Only thing I haven't done is a full reset, but I may have to do that.
In general, I'm not impressed with the quality of this release.
It's not ancient in my books. My Air 1 is perfectly adequate for all kinds of work on iOS 11. I’ve been keeping up with the consumer tech rat race since DOS and I’m fed up with forced obsolescence.
The Air 2 was at least a year ahead of iOS development when it was introduced. "Ancient" simply isn't correct. The 2017 iPad isn't much different in terms of SOC and graphics, and it's inferior in its display. The killer feature of the 2017 iPad is its price, which is amazing, not its performance.
Affordable, yes. Powerful, meh.
For me, still not worth the $ to dump my 128GB LTE Air 2 for equivalent 2017 iPad.
iPad Air 2, I would not consider ancient, my friend has one and it runs quite well on iOS 11. It had some issues at first I advised him to wipe and reinstall. And set up as new. It then was fine. I retired a iPad 4 after last pro update. It ran all of the iOS 10 betas though the final releases. Gave it to my niece and of course it’s not a beast but runs surprisingly well for its age. iPads have a lot more longevity and the last versions of each generation have better hardware. Air 2 I would not write off yet.
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The Air 2 is a little slower on some benchmarks, a little faster on others. It is noticeably thinner and has a laminated display with AR coating, neither of which the 2017 iPad has. No way I'd go to the 2017 iPad from an Air 2. In fact, if I were buying today, I'd buy a refurb Air 2 rather than a new 2017 iPad.
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I am having the same issue on my iPad Air 2. Animation lags when closing app by five finger pinch
You can see clearly how laggy the animations are
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2SImgHcejenQnN4UUp3bEJzVDA
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https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2SImgHcejenQnN4UUp3bEJzVDA
Close apps by pinching with five fingers. You’re gonna see animations lag
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Pretty bad for me. See here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2SImgHcejenQnN4UUp3bEJzVDA
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Having the same problem. Animations lag when closing app with five fingers
https://twitter.com/manzopower/status/914263740572405760
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Is your device iPad Air 2? Did u install iOS 11 OTA or clean install with iTunes? My iPad Air 2 stutters like crazy
https://twitter.com/manzopower/status/914263740572405760
Those videos are from Oct. 2 - what build was that? I'm running 11.1 Beta 4 on my Air 2 and it's extremely smooth. But I saw stuttering on earlier releases.
11 - 11.0.3 all stutters while closing app by five finger gesture. I reported that since all the way back in iOS 11 beta 2. Apple didn’t care
Since it appears fixed in later Betas, I would disagree that they didn't care. You need to try the latest build and evaluate.
Yes. I'm using 11.1 Beta 4 and the bad stuttering I had in earlier releases of 11 on my Air 2 are gone.
iPad Air 2 (64GB) no noticibke performance issues. My wife, with a iPad mini 2 (32GB), has yet to complain about any performance issues.
Here's hoping they get that and other performance problems fixed. Sometimes things fixed in a beta release revert in the public release. I'd like this fixed - there's a lot to like about iOS 11 on an iPad.
It's been a steady progression of improvement from one Beta to the next and there's a lot of speculation that Beta 4 is what will become 11.1 released.
I had seemingly the same issues. I did a reset, erase and started over treating the Air2 like it was a new machine. What’s a difference. So do yourself a favor and give it a last chance. Complete reset and treat it like it was new. Do not do a restore.My experience was incredible.
Turn off reduce transparency and reduce motion. Then open an app and close with five fingers. You’re going to see choppy animations
I did, very seriously so. Same on my Mini 4 (less surprising, given A8 processor). Put both back on 10.3.3, though I really liked the keyboard and dock in iOS 11.
Ohh! You don’t need to go back to 10.3.3. Reduce transparency solves the problem. Did you report this problem to Apple?
I have had reduce transparency and reduce motion turned on in Settings since I set up it up originally and I still had extremely jerky/laggy performance (with both iPads). No, didn't report it.
I never turned them on, sorry. I do not see any slow down.
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What build are you running? I'm on 11.1 Beta 5 (final 11.1) and it's very good. A few stutters here and there but other than that performance on my Air 2 is excellent. Early word on 11.2 Beta 1 is that it's better yet. If this is the beginning of the end, it's going to be a long ending.