Hey @Lagoonwish sorry for taking so long to get back to you.
I did some digging and couldn’t find out exactly why there was this conflict. I’m going to open an issue for and see what any of the devs have to say.
That being said, do you have to use jquery? Just an honest question, since Ionic is targeting more modern platforms (iOS 6+ and Android 4+) you might not need jquery to handle browser inconsistencies. Plus Angular already provides a light implementation of Jquery in its API. Just some food for thought…