Tablets - Love Them or Hate Them

[Mike047]

I am using my iPad Air 2 , 64Gb, which I had from new. I am finding that, when I try to write comments on the Watchtower or midweek LMM Workbook it freezes up and takes an age to get back to  working on text.

 

Is it because the tablet is now unsupported, is it built in obsolescence or something else?

 

Does anyone have any ideas, or do I need to purchase a new one?  

[Sheep]

I know nothing about iPads, much less about older ones. But since you mentioned it, I looked it up and found... it's been around since 2014, and received an update this past September. But it's not the latest iPadOS. It's considered vintage.

 

https://www.macworld.com/article/2035481/how-long-does-apple-support-ipads.html

 

To me, it looks to be quite on the old side. My opinion (which you should take with a grain of salt): look for a new one.

[Tortuga]

Moses broke his first two tablets...

I'm just saying....

[coolbrz731]

17 hours ago, Mike047 said:

I am using my iPad Air 2 , 64Gb, which I had from new. I am finding that, when I try to write comments on the Watchtower or midweek LMM Workbook it freezes up and takes an age to get back to  working on text.

 

Is it because the tablet is now unsupported, is it built in obsolescence or something else?

 

Does anyone have any ideas, or do I need to purchase a new one?  

I had an elderly sister ask for help with her iPad.  NWPublisher would crash on her iPad.  Found out it was stuck on ios12 and wouldn't update.  Because of the outdated iOS version it just wouldn't work.  We had to get it going on her phone.  You may be having a similar problem with JWLibrary 

[jwhess]

In line with what Br. Chris just mentioned, the JW.ORG website provides information about minimum operating systems.  The IOS requirement is version 15 or newer.  Which version is your older IPad Air running?

 

 

[Mike047]

Thanks for your kind thoughts, brothers. I don't have a compatibility issue, so it seems that for these intermittent problems, I just have to hang on for a bit. The new iPads should be out in the Spring, so I might wait until then. Maybe, just maybe, revert to hard copy??

[jwhess]

1 hour ago, Mike047 said:

Thanks for your kind thoughts, brothers. I don't have a compatibility issue, so it seems that for these intermittent problems, I just have to hang on for a bit. The new iPads should be out in the Spring, so I might wait until then. Maybe, just maybe, revert to hard copy??

If you have decent internet speed, can you just delete the JW Library app and reinstall it from scratch?  It is drastic but better than shelving the device.

[Mike047]

Yes, John, that's a good option. I might just do that

[Sheep]

12 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Moses broke his first two tablets...

I'm just saying....

Yeah. I heard that Adam had an Apple. But it wasn't very up to date. He only had one byte.

[Tortuga]

1 hour ago, Sheep said:

Yeah. I heard that Adam had an Apple. But it wasn't very up to date. He only had one byte.

He voided the warranty when he installed a second byte without approval from the manufacturer.

[Mike047]

Very funny,

 

I once knew a fellow called Pete

Whose writing was not very neat

He bought an iPad

And is now very sad

No writing, and only a tweet

[Pabo]

On 12/9/2023 at 11:47 AM, Tortuga said:

Moses broke his first two tablets...

I'm just saying....

 

Those original tablets had the code "flashed" onto them by the Creator himself.

 

[Pabo]

But after he broke them he had to make a clone and had to write the code himself.