i’ve updated it to 9.02. Every program I use on it ( mostly games) are updated. And yet with increasing frequency they crash and I go back to the desktop. I’ve done the long restart. I even spent an evening deleting everything and reinstalling while synched to another computer with iTunes after the latest iOS operating system was installed.
What else can I do?
I’ve been looking and so far all I see are reports of this happening with older idevices after updating to 9.x.x. They report that Apple says it’s working on it when they go to an Apple Store or speak with a tech. I wish I had better news - I’ll keep looking.
iOS 9.0.2 is working well on my iPhone 4s, which is definitely an older device.
My iPad Mini is a few years old, and I’m having the same problem; since the iOS 9 upgrade it’s essentially been crash-a-palooza.
I’ve noticed that the problem is very app-specific; some apps have been fine, some crash occasionally, and some crash constantly and are unusable. Google News has been my go-to news source for ages, and I gave up and uninstalled it the other day. It wouldn’t run for more than one or two minutes without a crash.
What really grinds my gears is that Apple won’t let you do a rollback to the previous operating system, because they know what’s best for us, just like they were positive that everyone on earth would love a U2 album. Microsoft may be an uncool, square company, but at least they let you roll back a Windows 10 installation.
My iPad was doing this after an upgrade. I found an article that suggested that the iPad was checking the app store to determine if the app had been purchased, and for some reason wasn’t able to log-in.
The fix was to go to the app store and “purchase” a free app, supply the password. After that all the other apps stayed open, and the dummy app could be deleted.
I have an iPad 4 that joined the legion of those that froze upon downloading iOS 9.0.
I found a site on the web that had Version 8.4 and the coding that allowed the iPad to load and install it. All went back to normal. Except. . . .
The damn thing started downloading 9.0 again, and by the time I noticed it, the download was nearly complete. This happened despite having set the thing up so that it wouldn’t download anything without my saying so. The downgrade had nuked the settings, of course.
I let the incomplete 9.0 upgrade rot until 9.0.1 came out. I hoped 9.0.1 would fix the freezing. So I let 9.0 complete its download, which, as soon as it ran, froze the iPad again. But after an hour or so I could run it well enough to reset it on the extreme-prejudice setting, killing all my apps.
Of course it didn’t work. So I downloaded 9.0.1. It did nothing to fix the problem except allow the iPad to unfreeze five to 10 minutes earlier than it did under 9.0, in 20 minutes to half an hour. Much useless resetting ensued.
Then came 9.0.2, and still the thing froze. So I found Apple’s support page and messaged them. After explaining everything to a tech via messaging, I followed instructions and hooked the iPad to my iMac by cable and reset it from the iTunes iPad setup page.
Resetting via hard connection instead of by wi-fi, the tech said, wipes the iPad clean before installing the latest iOS, instead of installing it over the old one. All seemed well. I could turn the iPad off then start it without the freeze.
Until this morning. I powered it up and it froze. Now it takes about a minute before it deigns to wake up, stretch, scratch its ass and do its thing.
POS.
A followup for anyone experiencing app crashes after upgrading:
If (like me) you eagerly installed an adblocker after the iOS 9 upgrade, try uninstalling it. Most of my app crash issues disappeared once I dumped the adblocker. Apparently most of the iOS adblockers work by routing ad traffic through a proxy server, and this was causing huge problems with ad-supported apps.
In my case, uninstalling the adblocker didn’t undo the proxy stuff, and the crashes persisted until I manually deleted the proxy server settings.
The makers of Adblock Plus are offering a standalone Adblock Browser; it works fine, although its features are rather bare-bones.
I didn’t install Apple’s because I use the iCab Mobile browser that can import Adblock’s filters, which I’ve had loaded for a couple of years.
My iPad doesn’t freeze or even run slowly on startup anymore, for whatever reason. I didn’t even have to spin a dead cat in circles over my head at midnight. Spontaneous electronic healing.
Mine was doing it before 9; it started with 8. I rue the day I updated from 7. My iPad 2 is pretty much in its death throes.
This site is where I downgraded mine to 8.4 from 9.0.
Scroll down a long way to the list of models and look for yours in the list. The list goes on forever with iOS 7 decimal-point systems and for iPads and iPhones. If you decide to go for it, have stuff you don’t want to lose and can back up your iPad first, do so, just in case.
After reloading 8 on mine, the damn thing started downloading 9 again when I wasn’t looking. I stopped it, but I couldn’t get rid of the amount it had downloaded, so it sat there, half downloaded, before I tried 9 again.
So if you downgrade, keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t do the same thing.
Duplicate post.
The wired “factory reset” and fresh install of iOS fixed my iPad 2 when version 8 made it run stupid slow and hot. The process is the iThing equivalent of reformatting a drive and installing a new copy of Windows.
Face it though, an iPad 2 is four years old. That’s an eternity in computer years, and really amazing considering how fragile the thing is compared to a desktop computer that doesn’t get stuffed into backpacks and dropped. I’d like to replace mine, but can’t justify it when the screen is not cracked and it still works. Perhaps when the afterimages (and that’s inherent to the display technology itself) become intolerable…
The vast majority of content blockers use the safe and private frameworks provided by iOS 9. It was only a handful of apps that installed a root certificate. Those that did install root certificates have been removed from the App Store.
But Apple sure bungled by letting them into the store in the first place.
Four years isn’t particularly old. I’ve read and heard on streaming computer shows on the net that the slowdown in iPad sales is partly caused by nothing ever happening to the previous ones, that they go forever because they have no moving parts.
I have a Version 2 iPod running iOS 4.2.1, and it can’t be updated. I’d be crazy to depend on it for net access because it’s dead slow on the net (Safari and Mail do work, though), but I use it in the car strictly for music. I’m sure it’ll last until the battery won’t accept a charge (there’s no hint of that), and even then I could permanently plug it in to a power outlet in the car where I charge it now.
I’ll use my Version 4 iPad until the cows come home. The only thing that screws that thing up is Apple itself with its bungled system updates. But now it’s running the latest system with no problem (I’ll be wary of updating it again, though, if it’s possible).
My desktop is an early 2008 iMac. If Apple declares no more system updates for it I won’t particularly care, any more than I care about my iPod hitting the iOS wall at 4.2.1.
The iMac’s running the newest OS, El Capitan, and it’s no slower than when it was new. it’s probably faster because of Apple’s continuous system optimizations. That ain’t bad for a seven-year-old machine. The only problem I’ve had occurred a couple of years ago when the video card crapped out. The machine still has the original disk drive.
The only potential problem with old system software is new apps that won’t run on them. Shrug. All the apps I use run fine now. If they’re never updated again I wouldn’t care.