iOS 8.1.1 Said To Address Performance Issues On A5 powered Devices (iPhone 4S, iPad 2, Original iPad mini, Fifth-gen iPod Touch)

Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham says users of Apple idevices with A5 processsor silicon running iOS 8 are due for a speed increase. Cunningham notes that on Tuesday Apple released the first beta build of iOS 8.1.1 to developers, said to include the customary bugfixes, but he deduces from the preliminary release notes that the update promises to improve performance on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, two of the oldest devices that support iOS 8.

He says Ars Technica testing of iOS 8 has found performance significantly slower on these older devices than iOS 7 was, with apps taking longer to launch, and the user interface often jerky and inconsistent in ways that it wasn’t before.

There have been many similar reports, which have dissuaded me from upgrading my iPad 2 from iOS 7.1.2, which itself icurred a performance hit compared with iOS 6 on that machine when I upgraded a year ago. I now have a lovely new iPad Air 2 which runs iOS 8 , and my seat-of-the-pants assessment based on a few days use is that even on this powerhouse machine, version 8 is not as smooth and graceful performer as earlier versions of the mobile OS were in the context of their times and supporting hardware.let

I do hope that Cunningham is correct in his deduction, as my old iPad 2 will carry on as my wife’s tablet, and there are already app upgrades that demand version 8 or higher.

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