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Apple Users

cos dem

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5. The devices don't get slower.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:20 AM

Jan 2020

The software gets more bloated and crappy.

FWIW, I've never found browsing on the iPad all that good, even when it was new.
On the plus side, the biggest offender are ads. I set up a "Pi-Hole" ad blocker on my LAN, and things are generally much better. I suspect ad "programmers" (I use that term loosely) care little for the performance impacts of their code.

I highly recommend an ad blocker.

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My Apple iPad Air is 6 years old...... [View all] a kennedy Jan 2020 OP

My Ipad is 8 now... battery is still good lapfog_1 Jan 2020 #1

Ipad Air 1 or 2? hlthe2b Jan 2020 #2

Check with Apple. Big Blue Marble Jan 2020 #3

I still use my iPad (first generation) CloudWatcher Jan 2020 #4

The devices don't get slower. cos dem Jan 2020 #5

Is it possible to do a clean install? mitch96 Jan 2020 #6

What IOS are you using? Elwood P Dowd Jan 2020 #7

Mine is 12.4.4. a kennedy Jan 2020 #8

Use the new iPad's AppleCare to transfer your old iPads files SmartVoter22 Feb 2020 #11

If you either Tetrachloride Jan 2020 #9

OMGOSH.......I use DuckDuckGo as well. a kennedy Jan 2020 #10

Unfortunately Duckerington Feb 2020 #12

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2020 #13