Unusable on iOS 6, even radio apps crash, I think the only consistent app I’ve had with no crashing - albeit with terrible keyboard slowdowns - is notes, which tells you everything you need to know) and while the A6 on iOS 10 is a little better, it’s still painfully slow, if the benchmark is original versions. The A5 is incredibly slow on iOS 9 (I’ve tried it) the A4 is also incredibly slow on iOS 6 (I’ve tried it too! I have two iPod Touch 4G, one on iOS 5 and one on iOS 6 and the difference is astounding. I mentioned this elsewhere, but Apple has been pretty consistent in that iOS updates’ impact on devices have a clear, direct threshold to determine their severity: pre and post 64-bit architecture.ģ2-bit devices were obliterated in every regard. Mine is deliberately stuck on iOS 12 though, so I can’t give any insight on my experience in regards to that.Ĭlick to expand.Thank you for your insight! That’s just how I imagined it was, then. Like memory management, maybe standby runtime also took a hit. However, like you said, maybe it’s iPadOS. I haven’t noticed much difference with iOS 9 to be honest, it‘s just that on-screen time is paltry. This is why I am surprised though: my standby time has been stellar, even if on-screen time has suffered a lot. Apple forcibly updated it to iOS 12 (The infamous A9 activation bug on iOS 9), and immediately after updating, battery life barely scraped 10 hours, with very light use, and varied, often getting even less. My 9.7-inch iPad Pro was almost like-new with 85% health on iOS 9, standing at around 14-14.5 hours of pretty light screen-on time when it was new, and dropping to around 13-13.5 hours with 85% health. Battery life too, but not as much as iPhones: iOS 13 obliterated the iPhone 6s’ already mediocre battery life (dropping it to like 3-4 hours of screen-on time) only to be reduced further by iOS 15. I haven’t noticed many memory management issues on iOS 12 when compared to iOS 9, and yeah, I’ve heard others mention the same thing: performance really decreased on older iPads since the introduction of iPadOS, unfortunately. That being said, Retina displays, larger screens and more powerful/recent SOCs definitely improve the experience noticeably, but I always try to make the most out of existing hardware if the cut-backs are moderate.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, maybe the PDFs you read were a little too much for the device. Give iBooks a try and then decide for yourself if it works for your PDFs or is actually unusable. The old iPads don't have a Retina display, but it's up to you if the resolution is enough for your PDFs or not. Of course you can use iTunes (or Finder) via USB and directly copy/sync the PDFs onto your iPad. I simply import the PDFs from a SMB network share (NAS/server) via WiFi into the local iBooks app (by using Filebrowser). Totally fine experience even when zooming heavily into the vector graphics. Each has ~130 pages, +30 MB, lots of images and vector graphics (statistics, maps). I use our 1st gen iPads (256 MB RAM) for reading weekly released magazines. And it's not like you have to spend any additional money. It surely suffices unless the PDFs are really complex.
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