iPad Files and Setting Apps Extremely Slow Response Times

Update 3: I just want to report that my iPad still seems to be functioning correctly several days after I reset it back to factory condition and then restored it from backup. So I have high hopes that doing so resolved my problem. I did find another thing that didn’t get restored. Namely ePUB books that I had manually added did not get backed up. That is books that I had purchased outside of the Books Store (e.g., Take Control Books) and free ones, such as from Project Gutenberg.

Update 2: Deleting and reinstalling the Files app did not solve the problem.

This morning I backed up my iPad again, both to iCloud and my Mac. (I wanted two backup methods, so I temporarily added enough iCloud storage to enable doing it to iCloud. I have a Reminder set to turn it off in a month or so, depending on my needs.). As Apple Support directs, on a Mac make sure to select “Back up all of the data on your iPad to this Mac.”, because the default is to only backup important data, which may not be all of what is important to you.

Back up iPad - Apple Support

I then did a factory reset of my iPad.

How to factory reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Next I restored my iPad from backup:

Restore your device - Apple Support

I had thought that I might have to redownload all of my Kindle app books, but they were all restored.

After the restore you will have some setup and configurations to do. I’m still in the process of finding everything, but here are a few:

• Security stuff, including touchID.
• I use IMAP mail accounts, so Mail needs to download all mailbox contents again.
• For Safari, my Tab groups and Profiles are missing, though it did restore the Profile bookmarks. So I’ll have to create the profiles again in Settings>Safari and the tab groups in Safari. I am going to provide feedback to Apple about this. Feedback - iPad - Apple
• I discovered that some of my files in the Files app are bad, so I’ll have to cull them out. I have a lot of files, so that may take some time.

I’ll post another update in a few days to indicate whether doing all of this actually resolved my problems.

Update: Since I didn’t get any responses, I backed up all of my files, deleted the Files app, and then reinstalled it via the App Store.  It turned out that deleting the Files app does NOT delete your files, so I didn’t have to restore them.  Still, it’s good to have backups when fiddling around like this.

Everything looks fine at the moment (all files readily accessible and Safari website data populates in Settings).  However, given that the problem is intermittent, I’ll use the iPad for a few days and then report whether this was the correct solution, or not.