iOS 6.1.2 on the iPad 2 - is it slow?

iOS 6.1.2 on the iPad 2 - is it slow?



A couple of years ago, the iPhone 3G received its final iOS which was 4.2.1 and everyone was shocked of how slow and laggy it was, since then everyone asks himself twice before moving to a new iOS, is it worth to upgrade? will it slow down my device? should I say on my trusted & tested iOS?
The iPad 2 got the iOS 6 along with the iPhone 3GS and for everyone's surprise, it's really smooth, it's really fast and it's definitely not slow. The iPad 2 has a 512MB memory after all and running too many apps will slow it down you might presume but with the iOS 6, that's really not an issue, but if you open up too many apps then starting the apps might take sometime but the performance is really fast.

In the video up, I launched a lot of apps that are installed on my iPad 2 and you can see that the performance is really great, it's not slow or anything, in fact, I find it faster than the iOS 6.

What you get with iOS 6?
A bit better battery life & some new features like Do Not Disturb and some privacy settings.
Not to forget more apps support.

What do you lose?
YouTube app & Google Maps - but google has their own app in the AppStore for YouTube so that's not an issue & google maps for iPad is not available yet.

What to watch out for?
You cannot downgrade from 6.1.2 to 5.1.1 - so be careful, do you really want iOS 6?

if you are a jailbreaker then hurry up before Apple upgrades to iOS 6.1.3, there are rumors that it might not be jailbroken for a while.


bottom line: Fast and Smooth performance, I don't miss iOS 5