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[devonwoody]

The connection issues are almost certainly distinct from your choice of browser. Regarding so, sometimes letting you onto forums and sometimes not, what do you mean ? Does it sometimes accept your password and sometimes not ? or is it that sometimes it won't render that page ? Regarding passwords, remembering them and keying them, consider some sort of password manager. Not all demand you send then your (encrypted) passwords, the ones I use on Windows and Linux store them locally on my hard disc or memory stick.

Example, email notification in.
Let's me read but have to sometimes input a p/word to reply.

Forgive the rant, but I have now got a cold and banned from visiting on hospital ward seeing my wife.

 

[mseries]

do you read your email using Safari ?

 

[Alexam]

I use Chrome on my iPad4 and it gives me all I need. I also have 1Password for all my passwords and that's a great software which sync's with the PC, so everything is always up to date and easy to get to.

 

[devonwoody]

I had a terrible time on my ipad last evening.

It kept sending me a pop up and lock ups with an I Cloud invitation to sign up to. It would not let me use the keyboard after a couple of strokes.

Was that a virus or is there a way to stop the pop up please?

 

[mseries]

I had a terrible time on my ipad last evening.

It kept sending me a pop up and lock ups with an I Cloud invitation to sign up to. It would not let me use the keyboard after a couple of strokes.

Was that a virus or is there a way to stop the pop up please?

I still think your wifi is the issue. Does think article describe your problem

http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-fix-an ... -in-ios-7/

 

[petermillard]

It would help if you could post some screen shots of the problem - pressing the home and power buttons together will save the current screen to your camera roll, then you could post them here in the usual way.

I'd agree it could be wifi related - have you tried a 'hard reset'? If not then press and hold the power and home buttons until the Apple logo appears onscreen - usually takes about six seconds - then release the buttons and let it restart in the usual way. This doesn't delete anything off your iPad, it's the equivalent of forcing a restart on a Windows PC with a double CTRL/ALT/DEL. Worth a try if you haven't already done so - does no harm for them to clear their throats once in a while.

And lastly, if you're not signed up to iCloud there's no harm in doing so - there's a free tier, and your iPad will be backed up every time it charges.

HTH Pete

edited for spelling

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks Peter, I will try that but I cloud will not get on my system if I can prevent it. I hope the same thing happens to them that happened to Iguaranus or whatever he was called.


Just goes to show that apple cannot control some situations like Windows, so apple boys can go down the plug hole as well.

 

[devonwoody]

Peter, its looks like your tip worked I cloud has not reappeared since using that on button and home button.

 

[Harbo]

As you are having so much difficulty operating your iPad why don't you visit an Apple Store and have a few lessons?
Or as you seem to hate Apple so much sell it and buy an Android version?

Rod

 

[devonwoody]

Rod its age related and windows has been my pc of 17 years and its the most popular and no messing around like apple apps etc. with passwords and when windows say something is free it is free no little tricks hanging around.

And windows can do far more things on a computer than mac.

 

[Harbo]

My advice still stands about having some lessons.
I not much younger than you (I think?) and get on equally well with Windows and Apple software and Apps.
I use a PC, MacBook, IPhone and iPad.
Once set up the iPad only request a password when activating it - in the case of my iPhone it's my fingerprint.
The only other time is if you carry out an upgrade - all apps store your passwords for future use including safari.
If you are using your iPad for Forum uses then I would strongly recommend that you buy Tapatalk - an App designed for Forum use and very easy to use.

Rod

 

[devonwoody]

Rod, I have 3500+ emails on my Ipad and even apple store can not delete them in one go.

they have tried and you have to delete in small batches, the system has faults and at that price its a rip off.
but horses for courses I suppose.

 

[woodpig]

Sounds like you should have done some research and bought a cheaper Android tablet. I'm sure you'd still have problems with it but at least you would have saved a few quid.

 

[petermillard]

Rod, I have 3500+ emails on my Ipad and even apple store can not delete them in one go.
they have tried and you have to delete in small batches, the system has faults and at that price its a rip off.
but horses for courses I suppose.

DW - there is a way to bulk-delete emails but it's a workaround and apparently deletes from the server, not just on your iPad, so may not be what you want.

Just a thought, but is this on Hotmail/Live mail? There was a specific problem with Hotmail when iOS 7 was introduced - we're going back some time now so I'm working from memory, but iOS 7 happened to come out about when MS also changed hotmail/live mail to Outlook.com, and the upshot was that the iPad Mail.app syncs all the mail on your server; the trick was to delete the Hotmail/Live mail account from your iPad, then re-add it using the Outlook.com presets. During the set-up process you have the option of selecting how many "Mail Days to Sync" so you can choose a week's worth, a month's worth, whatever suits your needs.

HTH Pete

p.s. FWIW my parents (90 and 92) both have iPads, and have none of these problems - so, with respect, your iPad issues are not entirely age-related