Why do my apps crash a lot in ios5 on my iPad?

Question

A lot off apps seem to have trouble running stable On my 1st gen iPad. Especially Safari seems to endure a lot of them. But also itunes U, comic book lover etc have their share of troubles. It does not seem related to iCloud as i saw mentioned because it was happening before, during iCloud and after turningit off again.
It gets kind of annoying now. :/
Also my iPad is really getting slow it seems. Btw clean install, not many apps installed and no history from a previous backup.

Answer 1

Mark, it is slowing down and crashing because you have too much stuff going on.  The ios is supposed to handle that, but sometimes it just doesn't.  Comic books, heavy net use, and graphic intensive stuff are culprits.
But you can minimize the issue by shutting down apps all the way, and from time to time, rebooting the machine.  This sort of cleans it out.
To fully shut down an app, double tap the home key to get the taks bar.  Touch and hold any of the task bar icons until they jiggle, the tough the minus sign to fully close them.  Then do the reboot by holding the home and sleep button until the apple logo appears.  Ignore the red slider.
If you get in the habit of closing of the task bar apps fairly regularly you should find that you will not have the same degree of issues, and will not need to reboot very often.