Itunes and ipad 2 downloading apps very slowly

i've been trying to update and download apps on itunes. But lately the download speed is very slow. A mere 8mb app can take 30mins to dl finish. It used to be faster before. I am using itunes 10.5 and windows 7 OS.

There may be something happening with your wireless connection, as connection speeds can vary depending on the device being used as well as the time of day and any interference in your area.
I would first recommend power cycling your router by removing the power cord from the router for 30 seconds, reconnect it, and then wait another 30 seconds for it to re-establish the connection.
I also recommend restarting your iPad to help clear its memory in case there is some sort of runaway process of some sort running in the background using resources. To do this, press and hold the sleep/wake button on your iPad for a few seconds, and then slide the red "slide to turn off" slider to the right. Then, press the sleep/wake button again until you see the Apple logo appear.
Hope that helps, have a great day.

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Syncing between itunes and iPad 2 is very slow. Is it because of the new ios 7.1?

Why is it taking so long to sync itunes with my iPad 2.
I have recently updated to the new ios 7.
Tried to delete apps and music using itunes whilst iPad connected. Still waiting for itunes to finish syncing (step 5 of 5).
Thank you for your help.

Yeah, sorry, you're stuck with it. Once it downloads it's there and cant be deleted.
HOnestly, you won't get carplay (and even if you did there are no cars currently on the market that support it) nor will you get the fingerprint scanning. You'll have the option for buttons again, along with a thicker font and a couple of other visual things.
The only way to keep updates from being manually pushed out is to keep your device full enough that there's no room for it to download.

I am so sick of the crappy way iTunes and iPad handle app folders.

I'm a long-time iPad user who, for various reasons, has accumulated over 500 apps. It is absolutely essential that I keep my apps organized into folders. This requires a lot of folders, too: with a maximum of 20 apps per folder, that's at least 25 folders.
What prompted this message is that after the last time a major software update decimated my carefully-constructed folder organization (which itself is inexcusable), I spent two hours with the horrible iTunes interface dragging and dropping and creating new folders and getting everything re-organized, finally, only to have iTunes fail to sync the changes to my iPad.
It synced, but afterwards, the iPad still had its old folder layout, and iTunes still indicated the new one. I power-cycled the iPad and tried syncing again: same thing. I quit and re-launched iTunes and synced again, and lo, iTunes wiped all the tedious work I'd done and just copied the defective organization back from the iPad into iTunes.
This isn't a one-time thing. It's consistently been the most time-consuming, time-wasting aspect of owning an iPad, and really, it's inexcusable for Apple to have let this go on and on for so long.
Why not just let them float free instead of constantly hitting my head against the "folder wall" and gradually move the ones I use a lot to early pages? Well, it turns out that if you have too many apps installed, the iPad doesn't show them all: there's a limit to how many pages of apps it will show. Dang it.
Why not use the search page to get to my apps? Well, I could, but some of them are named in unfortunate ways. (Also, when you search for an app, it doesn't indicate whether it's located in a folder nor in which folder it's located. That's not just stupid: it's caused me to go manually poking through folder after folder to find an app that I've "mis-filed".)
And if you have multiple iDevices? I recently jumped from Android to iPhone, and guess what: I had to go through the whole, pain-staking process of creating a folder organization for the phone, because I couldn't use the iPad's as a template. I did learn my lesson, though: the iPhone only has installed the apps that I use on a regular basis. At least that cuts down on the length of the pain if not the intensity.
C'mon, Apple, get a clue! This app folder "organization" is about as crappy as it gets. (Though you have a bad history of poor organization: how long did it take to get photo albums?) Please, please, please, if you can't at least get the novice-programmer-stupid-bugs out of your folder sync/iTunes logic, come up with an alternative.
Here, I can think of a REALLY EASY one right off the bat: let me tag my apps and search/access them via tags. (Oh, say, then maybe I could just have a "smart folder" to make them easier to find.) (What? Be able to organize apps in more than two dimensions?) Or at least make the drag-and-drop-to-move-apps interface (on both the iPad and iTunes) less fragile and frustrating.
Back to bashing my head against the wall... thanks for listening.

I've had a not-so-rewarding experience with one of Apple's support-issue-submission forms. It was a reminder that as much as I'd prefer to think otherwise, Apple may be unusual, but it's just another company where it's not possible for everyone to be "above average".
Frankly, I'd be happy in this case if iTunes dropped an XML file with apps-in-folders, let me mess with it, and then loaded and applied it to shuffle things around. That's one thing I love about OS X, but then that also allows one to be too smart for one's own good. Be careful what I ask for, I guess...

IPad 2 downloading apps very slowly

I was downloading battleheart on my iPad 2 and since there is this iCloud thing, it automatically downloads on my iPhone 4 too. Later I realise that my iPhone one finish downloading first. Why??

There may be something happening with your wireless connection, as connection speeds can vary depending on the device being used as well as the time of day and any interference in your area.
I would first recommend power cycling your router by removing the power cord from the router for 30 seconds, reconnect it, and then wait another 30 seconds for it to re-establish the connection.
I also recommend restarting your iPad to help clear its memory in case there is some sort of runaway process of some sort running in the background using resources. To do this, press and hold the sleep/wake button on your iPad for a few seconds, and then slide the red "slide to turn off" slider to the right. Then, press the sleep/wake button again until you see the Apple logo appear.
Hope that helps, have a great day.

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Before I got my iPad 2 I went into iTunes and downloaded a lot of apps. When my iPad arrived I synced it. Since then I have deleted many of these apps but they're still in my iTunes. How do I get my iTunes and iPad synchronized without all of those old apps going back on my iPad? Thanks...

Press home button twice.
Swipe to the leftmost screen, and when you see the airtplay icon enable and enable mirroring.
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Why are most of the apps (anything that has to search) on my iphone4 and ipad (1) running very slow (or not at all) since iOS5 update...esp google. Search seems to go quickly, but then when I try to open a link..nothing. I have turned off icloud.

why are most of the apps (anything that has to search) on my iphone4 and ipad (1) running very slow (or not at all) since iOS5 update...esp google. Search seems to go quickly, but then when I try to open a link..nothing. I have turned off icloud.

I am having the same problem. Did turning off iCloud work? Did you just turn everything off or did you actually delete the account off your iPod?

Downloaded ios5 one week ago, synced itunes and lost most apps, even folders and modified backup. How can I get back what I had before last synced?

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I cannot connect to ITune store to download app. I entered my Apple ID and password, and my credit card info, can you help?

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TS3623 Purchased Weeds from iTunes and the audio is very messed up. Video is fine. Audio for other downloaded shows etc. is fine. Any ideas or suggestions?

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I rented a movie through iTunes and it downloaded but won't play.

I rented a movie through iTunes and it downloaded but won't play. It is present in the videos app but doesn't load the picture for the movie. When I go to play it, it just opens and then closes. There is an iCloud icon that suggests the movie has not Been downloaded and when I click it it says that the movie has already been rented but not downloaded and that I need to go to downloads to manage it. It is not present in my iTunes download page however. And when I go to rent it again all I get is a watch button that directs me back to the videos app with no way to watch it.

Hi Refvoxa,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you are not able to play or download a movie rental on your iPad, first restart your device:
Restarting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Note: Reset your device only if you are unable to restart it.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
After your iPad restarts, try resuming the download again:
If your download was interrupted using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
From the Home screen, tap the iTunes app.
For iPhone or iPod touch, tap More > Downloads. For iPad, tap Downloads.
Enter your account name and password if prompted.
Tap the blue download arrow to resume.
iTunes: How to resume interrupted iTunes Store downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1725
If the movie still does not appear in Downloads, and can't be played, I recommend reporting the issue with your purchase:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933
Regards,
Jeremy

ITunes just started to run very slowly on windows XP

As of today, iTunes has started to run very slowly, on starting, on selecting a song, on any kind of moving around the interface. I can select a new song, it will play, but it takes about 10 seconds for the rest of the graphics to catch up (i.e. for song info to change, or the speaker icon to move to the next song etc). I cannot control what my virus software is doing (corporate computer locked down) but I can tell you it's been fine until today Wednesday 16 August. Running XP, on a Core Duo new Dell Latitude.
It also takes ages to load now. I tried removing the library, re-installing, updating etc. No avail.
I note that today I just had a big Windows update done.
Dell latitude 620 Windows XP Pro Core Duo

Any recent changes to your anti-virus/firewall, anti-spyware, anti-adware or other protection software? (Updates, new versions, etc.)
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I started having overall slower computer problems when I downloaded and installed the instant search feature that's part of Office 2007. Once I uninstalled this add-on things started moving along a little faster.
But, if you have a large iTunes library it does take a while to load and open the program--especially if it's not part of your startup routine. The iTunes store page loads are a bit more of a mystery--unless you have a firewall scanning issue causing some interference.

HT3209 I rented a movie on Itunes and it downloaded. Now it will not play. When i go to videos and try to play it the whole page turns black.

I rented a movie on Itunes and it downloaded but the movie will not play. When i go to videos to try to watch the video the page turns black

Quit the videos app completely.
Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar. Try the videos app again.
If that doesn't work, reboot the iPad. Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
If that fails, try this. Swipe to the right from your first home screen to get to the iPad Spotlight search. Type in the name of rhe movie in the field at the top. When the movie appears in the search - tap on it and it should start to play. Let it play for a minute or so - hit done - go back to videos app and see if all is OK.
But remember, once you start to play the rental, the timer starts.

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You'll have to contact iTunes store support regarding your credit card information problem: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html. I'm not clear on what you're saying about your backup. Are you saying that when you connect to iTunes it's asking you to restore from backup even though you already have?

I just bought a song on itunes and it downloaded it but for some reason is not playing, does anybody know why ??

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