Yes, I know that currently there is a new version of Jquery Cycle that handles responsive much better. At the same time, in my experience, that plugin is a bit more problematic and harder to implement.Upgrading to Cycle 2 will come at some point, but that might be in a couple of months since I’m tied up with other things.
Here’s the github repo for it. If you wish to add this functionality to the plugin, you could and we could include it in a later version of the plugin (with credit, of course).
https://github.com/thejsj/JSJGallerySlideshow
Conclusion: As of right now, this plugin is not responsive and Ipads are not really supported. Regardless, I’d love to see some screenshots of how it looks in the ipad and why exactly it’s stretched incorrectly.