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iPod touch does iOS6 slow down iPod 4gen?

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So, after my previous threads

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1456078/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1462951/

I've done a bit of a u-turn and bought a second hand iPod Touch 4gen. My reasoning was a) I looked again at my usage pattern with my iPad, smart phone and regular camera, and realised that what I was mostly interested in was a media player that could play my music, podcasts and Spotify, and b) I found a very good deal on a second hand one and decided to save a big chunk of money that I would have spent on a 5th gen for travel.

So far, I'm pretty happy with that decision. My question is, should I update it to iOS6? Will that considerably slow it down/ make it lag?
 
Even if it slows down your iPod, it shouldn't really be noticable. One some devices, it slowed down, on some, it actually became a lot faster.

Just try it yourself. Thats the only way.
 
If you plan to stick with Gen 4 then no need to up ios 6.0, i heard its laggy on Appstore.

BTW, dont you need good point and shoot camera for the travel????
 
It's really good on my iPod touch 4g.

Yes the AppStore is laggy but there is alternatives like using the AppStore through appshopper. All in all you can either jailbreak it on iOS 5.1.1 or upgrade iOS 6
 
Didn't install iOS 6 on my iPod Touch 4G cos I only use it to listen to music and watch videos, the only game I play is Plant vs Zombies. The new features of iOS 6 is pretty useless to me, so decided not to update. Still on 5.1.1 ^^
 
Thanks, everyone!

So, I decided to install it. The person I bought it from hadn't used the iPod for a really long time, so the OS was on 4. something.

I had one complete freeze just after install, but after that everything seems to be working fine. There's a tiny lag at times, but nothing too bad.


racoonboy said:
BTW, dont you need good point and shoot camera for the travel????
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Haha, yes. But I'll use my regular camera and my phone.
 
Going iOS4 to iOS5 made my ipod 4g more laggy. Because of that I haven't bothered with iOS6.
 
I think as long as you totally factory reset the iPod, you'll be fine on iOS6. Before getting my iPod Touch 5G, I put iOS6 on my iPod Touch 4G and it was pretty slow, I couldn't even search for stuff on the App Store without it crashing every time. Bet after getting my 5G, I factory reset my 4G and suddenly stuff like the App Store ran a lot more smoothly.
 
I did feel like iOS6 was slower, so I went back to 5.1.1 and am fiddling around with jailbreaking. My favorite mod so far is removing the text below the icons. Gives it a nice clean look!
 

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WindowsFan said:
I think as long as you totally factory reset the iPod, you'll be fine on iOS6. Before getting my iPod Touch 5G, I put iOS6 on my iPod Touch 4G and it was pretty slow, I couldn't even search for stuff on the App Store without it crashing every time. Bet after getting my 5G, I factory reset my 4G and suddenly stuff like the App Store ran a lot more smoothly.
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Yes, it did a factory reset as part of the installation process. Nothing has crashed again since that first incident, and I've been on the App store to get stuff as well. It's not as fast as my iPad 3gen, but then I don't think that can be expected?

matneh said:
I did feel like iOS6 was slower, so I went back to 5.1.1 and am fiddling around with jailbreaking. My favorite mod so far is removing the text below the icons. Gives it a nice clean look!
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That looks good.

Is there a 'jailbreak for dummies' thread somewhere? I'm clueless about it...
 
Mine is fine. I think it is a psychological issue, you think new OS on a device things should go faster, since iPod Touch 4 isn't design for iOS 6 why should it run faster than iOS 5 or iOS 4?
 
One of my friends upgraded his 4th gen to iOS6 and he doesn't seem to think it is any worse... It was slow anyway however, because it's only the 8GB model and it's full to the brim :eek:
 
Well, having played around with this for a while now, I'm really liking this little iPod :) I haven't had any before, but I'm pretty happy with this decision now. I feel I saved some money but also got what I wanted. It's nice to be able to listen to music and podcasts on the go without any worries about battery life on my phone, it's very light, and I still have more than 10GB left for more music. And no more freezes or clashes at this point.
 
Somedays it feels quick as lightning even in the App Store and the podcast app
Other days it crawls with everything
Not much of a diffence in speed from my pov
Worth the upgrade if you're running osx
 
well my 4th gen ipod was pretty laggy even on ios5. didnt see much of a change on ios6 :/ i dont use it very much anymore, but when i do, its a pain just trying to navigate around in the app store.
 
I think the lack of RAM hurt the 4th Gen touch.

I updated mine to iOS 6 shortly before I sold it, can't say it was any worse than iOS 5, a reboot always made animations a lot smoother.
 
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