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When do you no longer update your iPads?
I know many here buy or run more than a single iPad. I am only just on my second in ten years!
My last ipad became a slow piece of junk with few apps working by the end. I think I updated the iPad and apps for far too long. I also think that Apples ecosystem is designed to slow devices over time.
I'm now planning on buying an iPad more often, so that 1. I have backups and more than one to use at once, and 2. I can 'freeze' iPads at certain times to make sure that some older apps remain usable.
I've heard that some of you do this. So, for those that do, how often do you find the need to retire an iPad state for best results? I know that I can't afford to waste money on an iPad every year or even every other, but running one for 10 years didn't work for me last time as ios music making became a chore.
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The key is ... patience. The older a device is, the longer I wait before updating. I got burned on my first iPad by going one update too far and it turned into an unusable piece of scrap. So, as my next iPad, an Air 2 aged, I waited longer and longer for major updates to prove out. Only when I was sure that others on the same model were OK did I update. Fortunately, this time Apple made the decision for me by no longer supporting the device for new versions. That was actually a relief.
I was given a 9th gen iPad for Christmas. I'm not going to be worried about updates for awhile beyond hanging back a few months on major updates to be sure nothing has gotten broken.
O I'm doomed then....I have a lot less patience as I get older lol.
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I kept some old iPads for a while but whatever old apps I was running on them were superseded by apps like Loopy Pro.
I don’t know if the 2016 9.7” pro was a dud or something but it became unusable for me after updates.
yes, agree that many of the old apps just become replaced by better apps, but I would still like the odd snapshot in time if possible. its quite amazing looking back to see how much ios music making has changed. if nothing else, I would love to have a time capsule of those early days if nothing more than to have a laugh.
Apparently when Apple decides it for me...
My iPad updated from 16.7 to 17.2 automatically last night despite my Software Update setting being "Download Only." Very irritating! Fortunately this is on my newest one but I have a few I've "frozen" where I now feel I need to turn off Internet access.
Has this happened to anyone else?
To answer the question, I try to stay at least one full version behind the "final" update on the older ones to avoid any kind of last-minute intentional performance throttling they might drop in to"encourage" a hardware upgrade.
Yes, that happened with my latest iPad. Updates off, but still updated to iOS 17. It hasn’t updated to the latest version of 17 since, but I’m not sure what I did if anything as I always turn updates off. Eventually I’m taking this one offline when I get another one. Hopefully I will do it before it goes slow like my Air 2 did.
Ack, I'm sorry! In this case I rather wish it was just me. Now I'll have to be more cautious guarding my archival units.
@oddSTAR: That is odd. Mine hasn’t updated without permission before. It would bug me if it did that.
As long as everything is working ok, I usually don’t upgrade until I have too.
I’m on a new iPad now, but only because my old one broke (and my generous sister gifted me a new one).
Yes, I’ve never had an iPad do that before this one.
I have an idea what may have happened in my case. With my iPad being new, I think the iPad downloaded the latest update before I had chance to change the settings. It still shouldn’t update, but I do think that if a later update is actually downloaded, iOS seems to update eventually even if auto updates are off. Now that there is no update waiting and downloads of updates are off, it does not seem to update anymore. So, I think it may have been a problem that I won’t encounter again until I get another new iPad if at all. Possibly lol
@Fruitbat1919 can I just ask what update was “one too far” for your Air2? I’m still using one for bits and pieces and it’s still handy as it is. It’s on 16.something
I can’t remember the exact moment or number, but the last few years I was still using it to make music, it really slowed down. More and more apps were playing up and it generally just felt a miserable experience. I can’t actually remember the last iOS I was on as my wife uses it for simple games and the battery no longer holds charge without it being plugged in. Having only 64gb mostly full was also problematic: I much prefer having more free space for iPads, they seem to run better.
So, ‘one too far may have been a few OS iterations. Obviously use case varies so much that how I used mine may be quite different to how you use yours. I’m quite happy with how much use I got from a £450 device: used pretty much every day for getting on for ten years!
a large iPad Pro (2017) is my latest. I still have two iPad2’s and one iPad4, which are mainly for controlling DaVinci Resolve colour correction with the Tangent app.
It is about time to get a new iPad now, but I’ll wait. The old iPad Pro is still good enough.
I have mine on auto update, so approximately 12 to 14 hours after I die, I’d guess. If I die with it on battery power.
My Air 2 is fine on the latest it can go to, iPadOS 15.8. I did not notice any degradation between updates. I'm sensitive to and careful about going one update to far. I believe I would know it if an update had killed it. I'm sure if I play with it now that I have a newer iPad I'll feel like it's slow, but that wasn't the case when I was deciding about updates.
There are lots of other factors that can cause an iPad to feel like it's slowing down. Low storage, bad battery health, accumulation of apps that update in the background, etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, my two cents is 15.8 is just fine on the Air 2, no degradation that I can see. I will say it was a relief when it hit it's last update version and I didn't have to worry about making it useless by going one update too far.
Thanks @wim, really appreciate the reply.
I thought my Air 2 was on 16 something but I’m obviously wrong, I haven’t checked and wasn’t /aren’t on that iPad now.
I love this forum, it’s still one of the nicest and most helpful places on the internet