iOS 9.3, older devices and Airport City

[Rsorour]

Folks with older devices like myself who experience frequent crashing, auto save issues and other maladies: has anyone upgraded to the latest software? Please share experience. I am not expectingAC to run any better as the issue is with game software not the operating system. However, I heard testimonials online of the iOS 9.3 messing with their older devices. I am running and iPad 2 and I already can't download the software as it keeps giving me the dreaded "unable to verify update as you are now t connected to the Internet" message, which I am.
@Long @suzy @lfcawc and others in the same boat

Cheers,
Ramy

 

[Deetee04]

Hi Ramy, I updated my Iphone 5 to iOS 9.3 earlier this week and I still have frequent crashing, auto save issues and other maladies....
After Pictures/movies and facebook, AC is the "biggest' app on my device with 587 MB. But I still have 2,7 GB of free memory so I suppose the problems are not caused by the operating system. Only by game software or GI servers not backing up immidiately.

 

[Matina]

HI
Unfortunately I have the same problem
I loose gifts launch item and sometimes it takes hours to complete visiting my neighbors

 

[Agent_L]

, AC is the "biggest' app on my device with 587 MB. But I still have 2,7 GB of free memory

You're talking about storage memory (aka drive, hdd or ssd). AC has problems with operating memory ( aka RAM), which older devices sorely lack: iPad 2 has only 0.5GB while industry standard in 2016 is 3-4GB (eg iPhone 6s or iPad pro).

Indeed, the OS is not without fault, as each newer issue takes more and more RAM, leaving less space for an app to run, hence the crashes.

My iPad mini 1 - exactly same thing as iPad 2 - didn't even get the 9.3, says it's happy at 9.2.1.