After I updated my iPad1 (I know it’s not the latest apple device, but I’m not an apple fanatic 
) to iOS5, and later to iOS 5.0.1, I noticed that was really slow in the normal usage and applications crashed almost once every hour. At the end I had an iPad but it wasn’t a pleasure to use it like the past.
After some tests, I start looking for something to fix these problems, knowing that Apple doesn’t allow the downgrade to old versions. And the solution I found, that seems to work after some days of tests, is to reset all settings, going to:
settings -> general -> reset -> restore all (maybe in English the menu names are not exactly these, but my iPad is in Italian 
)
With this reset you don’t lose your data (applications, photos, musics, mails, …) but it just restore the iPad settings to factory default. This means you have to re-enter your wifi key, you have to select your backgrounds but nothing more. An important thing is to prevent restore of these settings from a backup. In fact, after restart, iPad ask you to enter some settings like the first time you start it up: language, location, etc… And then it will ask you if you’d like to restore the device using iCloud or iTunes. Well… Here you have to say NO 
Right now, my iPad works like with the previous iOS version: not slow, no apps crashes… At the end I have my iPad back.
Hope this could help someone else.
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Ben
21/12/2011 at 03:58 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Thanks, that worked for me as well.
On the English iPad it is “Reset All Settings” and even though it does indeed seem like it’s going to cause everything to be lost, choosing “Setup as New iPad” just restores back to how you left it, but with all settings reset.
My iPad now performs much better.
Odd that it has this issue, but nice to have the fix.
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Michael Cussen
01/01/2012 at 13:38 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I reset my ipad1 after loading problems when I upgraded to 5.0.1 still having the same problems! Apple don’t seem to value there customers if there was another decent tablet out there my iPad would find itself in the BIN.
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Gar
01/02/2012 at 04:25 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Worked like a charm. Thanks for posting this fix.
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Bob
10/02/2012 at 22:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I did it too, and it does work…. for a while. Then gradually Safari starts crashing again and things are slower?
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Tony lobo
03/05/2012 at 16:59 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
After resetting do you go back to your previous ios version or get to keep it on ios5?
Thanks
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Marco
03/05/2012 at 17:03 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
No I’m still on iOS 5 (now 5.1). I think you can’t switch back to a previous iOS version because Apple, all time, disable the previouses versions certificates.
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Kiki
29/09/2012 at 01:02 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Thanks! It made a difference.
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Bob
29/09/2012 at 01:58 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
This works for a while and then eventually things revert back to frequent crashes. Then you just reset again. sigh…
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Mazen
08/11/2012 at 23:35 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
This is phenominal. I had a lot of trouble with iCloud. I’ve tried everything, and surprisingly enough, iCloud team couldn’t help me. When I tried what you said it actually solved all iCloud problems. THANK YOU SO MUCH
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Dalkhup
08/01/2013 at 14:28 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I want to update ios5.01
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Mike
23/02/2013 at 00:03 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Wow! been with the laggy Ipad since the iOS update and I though was no way to make it better, thanks for this post, my iPad 1 is now fast again.
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Andreas
19/03/2013 at 08:30 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
You made my day!
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