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iPad Pro IPadOS - yuck

I have to admit I am not impressed. So far I have not seen huge benefits from the new features but I encountered two/three bugs that are annoying for me. First I had issues with receiving emails. I managed to fix it, but Mail app is quite buggy. Quite often it just does not retrieve emails. Even if it is the connection itself I expect Mail app to tell me that I have bad connection not just hang in there. To be honest this used to happen in iOS 12 as well. Now it is just far worse and happens far more often. Btw some applies to Files app. It seems that Apple has not made sure to handle connection issues in their apps. It just hangs or freezes but it does not inform the end user that there are some issues and they should retry later on the action.

I had sync issues between different Apple IDs. It seems that as a whole the upgrade is not seamless and most of the sync stuff end up being broken and you have to set them up again.

I encounter issues with multitasking. It is not a smooth experience. Sometimes the screen freezes and nothing happens. That might be a result of RAM usage (my iPad has just 2 GB). Nevertheless it is not smooth user experience.

Same sort of issues I see with this new feature of using the pencil to take screenshot in Safari. Quite often it does not work at all and treats the pencil as mouse and does not take the screenshot at all. In other cases it freezes when you try to scroll down through the taken screenshot. And if all that end up working then there would be issues with saving.

I also do not like the fact that it caches quite a lot when using cloud services like say OneDrive. It seems that the storage I have used in my OneDrive results in having some cache preserved in the Filess app on the iPad. That negates the purpose of using cloud storage services.

I even wanted to downgrade to iOS 12 yesterday but it seems this is not possible anymore. In my opinion iOS 13 is not ready for end user usage. They have needed just one or two months more to fix the issues and overall performance before releasing it to the public.

ETA: One feature that I like is that I can now move the cursor. For now this is the iOS 13 feature I currently appreciate the most. I am using it only for 2 days so there might be other features that end up like that as well, but for now I notice more the bugs than the usefulness of the new features.
 
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I'm pretty happy with it, being able to have multiple instances of apps open really makes the experience a lot more flexible. Also finding it feels pretty well as fluid and optimised as iOS 12 did. Only thing I still find a little awkward (and this is a carry over) is having to keep multitasking apps in the dock, or exit the app you're using to open a secondary one. Where you could previously pull a new on in from the side was really a lot more useful IMO.
 
revmacian said:
I find that pop up menu to be extremely useful. I have an iPad Air 3 and a long-press used to yield the shaky icons in 12.4.1. Now, in iOS 13, a long-press yields several options that make using apps quicker and easier. Change comes easier when we’re willing to focus on what we have to gain rather than what we have to give up.
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The whole reason for me to avoid update iOS 13 is because this stupid pop up menu. It is like two steps now to rearrange apps. It is stupid and unnecessary.

And of course, fast battery drain.
 
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LovingTeddy said:
The whole reason for me to avoid update iOS 13 is because this stupid pop up menu. It is like two steps now to rearrange apps. It is stupid and unnecessary.

And of course, fast battery drain.
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Is it really two steps now? On mine if I continue to hold the icon down after the pop up menu appears the rearrange apps behavior is invoked. My issue with the pop up is the rearrange apps option is redundant because of the long press behavior still being there.
 
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muzzy996 said:
Is it really two steps now? On mine if I continue to hold the icon down after the pop up menu appears the rearrange apps behavior is invoked. My issue with the pop up is the rearrange apps option is redundant because of the long press behavior still being there.
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This! Indeed if you continue pressing the icon you invoke the regime for rearranging icons. It does seem a bit weird to have two ways to achieve the same thing.
 
Very happy with ios13 from Safari, Files App, multi tasking improvements and USB C drive access.
 
LovingTeddy said:
The whole reason for me to avoid update iOS 13 is because this stupid pop up menu. It is like two steps now to rearrange apps. It is stupid and unnecessary.
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Seriously, you’re complaining about having to expend the energy to make an extra tap? You can’t possibly be that frail. As others have mentioned, just continue to hold the icon and the shaky icons kick in and.. your entire argument crumbles.
 
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I like the features in iPadOS, but do have too many occasions of the screen freezing and having to close down and restart. Strangely more problems now on the public release than the previous Betas.
 
iPadOS 13 Safari easily 15% slower browsing than iOS 12.x

sometimes I end up requesting the mobile version of some pages.

and definitely get rid of the Today on Home screen if you care about RAM useage and Multitaksing.
 
Very unhappy with iPad OS 13. My smart keyboard randomly stops typing all the time till I unplug and replug. The alt tab app switcher randomly stops actually swapping and I have to tap the app to switch to it. Random app crashes, shocking battery life, if I select the top message in mail I can’t use the up or down arrows to move between messages even though any other message works, I often can’t launch apps from the ‘recent‘ part of the dock, the find my friends widget was removed for no reason without a replacement.

The new Files app isn’t that much of an improvement. It is still fairly useless as you can not download whole folders at once. The download option in Safari doesn’t always work. Can’t choose to save photos to files instead of to photos.

13 feels like the instability and lag of iOS 11 all over again. The claims of speed increases are lies.
 
revmacian said:
Seriously, you’re complaining about having to expend the energy to make an extra tap? You can’t possibly be that frail. As others have mentioned, just continue to hold the icon and the shaky icons kick in and.. your entire argument crumbles.
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It is confusing as hell. You need literally need long press, then this stupid menu pops up. You either have to choose or continue to hold. Who designed this stupid thing? Why add this redundant thing?

I don’t care how you guys think, I dislike it and I am avoiding iOS 13 at all cost.
 
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I am pretty happy with iPadOS. Install as new device in my iPad Air 3. First few days experienced notes sync issues. However it resolved after I did reset all setting. So far quite good. Battery, performance, synchronize etc. Some glitches is on small keyboard (sometimes it couldn't be moved around) and the split window (sometimes the splitter bar could not be moved). Other than that its quite stable.
 
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It's different, I can see useful additions but generally it's not getting in my way and that is ok, what I can see is how it could improve as time goes on and that is a positive.
 
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Kenn Marks said:
I’m having difficulty getting recent apps to launch from the dock on my 9.7 iPad Pro running iPad OS 13.1.2. You tap the recent icon and nothing happens, all Apple apps work but most 3rd party apps do not.
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AutomaticApple said:
When you long press on a recent app, the share option will say "share (null)."
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I too was having the same issue on my 9.7 and 12.9 Pros. Rebooting them seemed to resolve the issue as it hasn’t occurred again since.
 
I like iPadOS. The Files app is more functional, the long press options are handy, multitasking is better. Even Shortcuts has become useful.

I see it as a step in the right direction.
 
My Safari tabs are continually disappearing on my Air 2 with 13.1.2
Extremely frustrating and annoying- and they don't show up in the recent pages (+) option. If I could go back to 12 I would...
 
Photoshopper said:
My Safari tabs are continually disappearing on my Air 2 with 13.1.2
Extremely frustrating and annoying- and they don't show up in the recent pages (+) option. If I could go back to 12 I would...
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There is a setting to close the tabs automatically after certain period of time. I think the earliest one was 1 week. Check if this setting is enabled for you. Also check if the tabs are not in other Safari windows.
 
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Kenn Marks said:
I’m having difficulty getting recent apps to launch from the dock on my 9.7 iPad Pro running iPad OS 13.1.2. You tap the recent icon and nothing happens, all Apple apps work but most 3rd party apps do not.
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I have and still experience this same thing.
 
Hi. I am new to the forum but have used it many times in the past.
I got a question: Is it possible to upgrade the IPad Pro 10.5 from ios 10.3 or 11 to 12.4 (and NOT 13.1.2)?.
Anyone knows which version of the system is faster for produktivity for PDF and note making (and to a lesser extend Musik Synth Apps)?
 
secretk said:
There is a setting to close the tabs automatically after certain period of time. I think the earliest one was 1 week. Check if this setting is enabled for you. Also check if the tabs are not in other Safari windows.
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Thanks, but I did have it set for Manual removal, not timed. If / when it happens again I'll look at your 2nd suggestion.
 
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