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I'm inclined to believe what I have experienced. I have never before experienced my 2020 iPad Pro to be remotely slow. I use it for some web browsing and YouTube viewing, so I really don't need a lot of computing power.

Now that I'm running the iOS 26 beta, I frequently feel animations going slowly or hitching. It's not terrible, but for the first time, I have the feeling that my experience using my iPad would be noticeably improved if I bought a new and more powerful one.

But I guess this makes me an idiot according to Mitchell?

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Beta versions are always slow and sluggish. Just install the latest beta of iPadOS 18. It will be sluggish. The reason is that in beta versions there is a lot of logging and reporting running in the background which can not be disabled.

We will see. It feels worse than earlier betas; I have always put the public betas on my iPad, and this is the first time we're this late in the cycle and my iPad feels too slow. But nothing would make me happier than if this all just goes away when iOS 26 is released properly and all animations run at a smooth 120 FPS again.

> Beta versions are always slow and sluggish. Just install the latest beta

I never though HN will be a source for paradoxes.

1) that is not a paradox 2) the ending of the sentence (which you left out) gives context: iOS 18 beta is sluggish as well, so ‘being sluggish’ is not a liquid glass exclusive

I experience this basically any time I upgrade my phone OS. There's never anything new that makes me happy, it's always either they removed something I used, made something uglier, and always it's 2-3x slower than it used to be.

Same thing with Windows. If they just stopped touching it 20 years ago, it would be 50x more responsive now.

Just turn them all off along with transparency and whatnot in the vision impaired setting. I believe there's also a setting for scrolling or how pages move back in forth (seems to be faster to me)

I always so this with all phones as it saves battery life and feels way snappier to me than some random animation between windows.

> I believe there's also a setting for scrolling or how pages move back in fort

I'm struggling to parse that sentence, please elaborate.

"move back and forth" I think is what they were going for, but proofreading isn't a thing anymore.

Ehh more like spellcheckers aren’t something you only get in a word processor anymore, and autocorrect doesn’t help either. I’m getting the impression that there are much more malapropisms on the Internet (and much, much fewer outright typos and spelling errors) than there used to be, say, a decade ago, and I strongly suspect spellcheckers are to blame.

(Proofreading in professional publishing is, indeed and to that industry’s great shame, much less of a thing than it used to be, but that’s a different story.)

Sounds like it's working exactly as intended.

That 2020 iPad didn't have an M SoC. That's a massive milestone upgrade in 2021.

Yes. The beta is discussed in the replies.

X isn't showing me any replies, so I can't read them.

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