Foreflight slow on iPad mini6. Anyone else seeing this?

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I have the latest iPad mini (6). I’ve kept pace with all upgrades to both the IOS and foreflight.

While I was flying today, I noticed a notable delay as I clicked on airport info, or switching from maps to scratchpad, etc.

Has anyone else noticed a time delay? I’ve got the 256gb model iPad mini 6, FWIW
 
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Two mini 6’s used Thursday night flight. No slow responses noted here.
 
Used it today. No slowdown noticed. Seemed as responsive as ever.
 
Mine is an iPad Air 4 and I have noticed the same behavior over the past week or so.
 
iPad mini 6 here. Last couple weeks ForeFlight has been slow to respond to my inputs. Selecting something or pinching to zoom on the map for example. And no other app is running slow on my iPad. Also, it hasn’t slowed on my iPhone 13.
 
Low Level Flyer said:
iPad mini 6 here. Last couple weeks ForeFlight has been slow to respond to my inputs. Selecting something or pinching to zoom on the map for example. And no other app is running slow on my iPad. Also, it hasn’t slowed on my iPhone 13.
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That’s what I’m seeing as well. I wonder if foreflight needs to know?
 
Mini 6 flew Saturday and yesterday morning. No issues
 
Mini 6 has been slow to respond in regards to selections, pinch and zoom etc. for the past two weeks.
 
Battery health? Temperature?
 
Try a restart (turn off).

If it still has an issue, try a hard reset.
 
My mini 6 started behaving exactly as you described starting yesterday. Had a friend whose started behaving odd a few days ago too. Have restarted multiple times. Zero issues prior to this and all of my other apps work fine.
 
Just stumbled across this thread while googling for this same issue. I'm curious if everyone is still seeing this lag for touch inputs, even on the latest app and iOS updates? I'm using an iPad Air M1 from 2022 and it's become pretty much unusable for ForeFlight. Everything else on the iPad is lightning fast and responsive. :(
 
jimmyz80 said:
Just stumbled across this thread while googling for this same issue. I'm curious if everyone is still seeing this lag for touch inputs, even on the latest app and iOS updates? I'm using an iPad Air M1 from 2022 and it's become pretty much unusable for ForeFlight. Everything else on the iPad is lightning fast and responsive. :(
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Have you updated anything recently? After an iOS update, the OS re-learns all of your habits over the course of a few days, so everything slows down a bit and it chews through the battery faster before going back to normal.

As others have said, it's worth rebooting at the very least.
 
Nope it's been like this for at least a month now, through a couple of iOS releases and weeks of stable time in between. This iPad gets rebooted at least weekly, since I charge it and power it off until I go fly.
 
I am seeing no problems on my Mini 6.

In addition to suggestions about reboots, etc, consider swiping up from the bottom and closing background apps. Yeah, I know, Apple aficionados will insist iOS and ipadOS do such a marvelous job of allocating memory, it cannot possibly be an issue (which is why there is no close all option :mad: ), but I never believed that. Even before I saw an app pop up an “insufficient memory - close down some apps” message.
 
I experienced a similar issue about a month ago and opened a ticket with ForeFlight. As part of the data collection I was preparing to send them, I noticed that I had the “Surface Analysis” layer enabled on the map. That’s not typical for me, but I probably enabled it while flight planning on the ground and hadn’t disabled it. When I noticed it, I turned it off and the responsiveness returned to normal.
 
Mike Gagnon said:
I experienced a similar issue about a month ago and opened a ticket with ForeFlight. As part of the data collection I was preparing to send them, I noticed that I had the “Surface Analysis” layer enabled on the map. That’s not typical for me, but I probably enabled it while flight planning on the ground and hadn’t disabled it. When I noticed it, I turned it off and the responsiveness returned to normal.
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I saw a similar comment which may have been yours, so one of my troubleshooting steps this week was just to turn off every single layer. It didn't help a bit. :( I caved today and finally uninstalled, reinstalled, reloaded all my data, tweaked settings, etc., and so far it seems much more snappy. Not sure if I found some weird bug in the app or what, but hopefully it stays snappy from here on out.
 
Check your ipad’s memory utilization in Settings>General>ipad storage. If free memory is only about 2 GB, I can get terrible sluggishness with my 5th generation ipad mini. That problem is completely cured by just deleting some memory-hog apps, which are easily identifiable when viewing that setting.
 
NoHeat said:
Check your ipad’s memory utilization in Settings>General>ipad storage. If free memory is only about 2 GB, I can get terrible sluggishness with my 5th generation ipad mini. That problem is completely cured by just deleting some memory-hog apps, which are easily identifiable when viewing that setting.
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I had >150GB free. :)
 
2-Bit Speed said:
Pretty sure @NoHeat was referring to RAM, not storage.
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I meant storage. My bad for using the term "memory." Thanks for pointing this out. To clarify: Foreflight on my iPad mini can become intolerably sluggish if unused storage is too little, about 2 GB in my case, and I cured this problem by deleting apps that use too much of it.
 
NoHeat said:
I meant storage. My bad for using the term "memory." Thanks for pointing this out. To clarify: Foreflight on my iPad mini can become intolerably sluggish if unused storage is too little, about 2 GB in my case, and I cured this problem by deleting apps that use too much of it.
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Okay.
 
Ozone said:
I have the latest iPad mini (6). I’ve kept pace with all upgrades to both the IOS and foreflight.

While I was flying today, I noticed a notable delay as I clicked on airport info, or switching from maps to scratchpad, etc.

Has anyone else noticed a time delay? I’ve got the 256gb model iPad mini 6, FWIW
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Okay, fine, but what were you relying on to transmit that information to your iPad? I would assume ADS-B? That is a pretty important link in the chain you know.
 
MBDiagMan said:
Okay, fine, but what were you relying on to transmit that information to your iPad? I would assume ADS-B? That is a pretty important link in the chain you know.
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I'm not the person you quoted, but I can speak to how the slowness was on my iPad Air. It had nothing to do with a datalink setup like ADS-B. You could be completely disconnected from everything, and it would even take a few seconds to move from one logbook field to the next. Or your write a word on a scratchpad and it wouldn't show up on the screen until 5-10sec later. I'm not saying ADS-B isn't related at all, but it seemed more like some software component in the app was just bogging every function down.
 
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