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Are you happy with your iphone 4 on ios 7.1 ?


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iOS 7.1 beta 3 is fairly decent on an iPhone 4 considering its age. It's even better if you disable some of the new animations (enable reduce motion, etc.).

iOSBry
 
iOS 7.1 beta 3 is fairly decent on an iPhone 4 considering its age. It's even better if you disable some of the new animations (enable reduce motion, etc.).

iOSBry

Ironically, if you enable "increase contrast" the OS laggs.
 
I strongly recommend anyone who is seriously thinking about "up"grading his iPhone 4 to iOS 7 to use a tool like iFaith to make sure you could downgrade if you don't like what you see. That way you won't have to rely on others' impressions of a one way ticket.
 
Updated both my iPhone 4 and my wife's to iOS7 and while performance at times can appear slightly slower, we both find it totally acceptable and glad we updated to iOS7.
 
I'll never know. iOS 7 was such a horrible experience on my iPhone 4 that I sold it and bought a used iPhone 4S, since I didn't want to reward Apple after they destroyed a perfectly good phone.
 
I don't know about 7.1, but 7.0.x is really slow. Also a battery killer.

I'll try 7.1 when it gets final, but I'm pretty shure I'll roll back to 6.1. I really do not encourage people (owners of iP4 mostly, although 4S got a considerable performance hit too) who don't have their blobs (4, only) saved to 'upgrade' to iOS 7.

I've also experienced frequent crashes of Settings app.
Just for the record: GTA:SA is playable on iP4 iOS v6.1, whereas on v7.0.x is like watching a slideshow - and a poorly executed one, w/o transitions. :)
 
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I restored my partner's iPhone 4 to 7.1b4 and set up as a new device. So far I think she's happier - less lag when scrolling and typing, and obviously the faster app opening animations make it appear faster in general.
 
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