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For all 4S users out there, how is iOS 7 GM working out?

Long time lurker here.

Running fantastically on my 16g 4s. No battery concerns, glitches or crashes.
The only lag I can consistently reproduce is when switching orientations with the keyboard active. The frame rate drops from 60 to like 16ish during the transition. A little annoying, but expected.
 
It's just meh. It runs really well and smooth on my iPhone5, but iPhone4S and iPad3 are buggy and slow. Personally, I probably won't run it on anything that doesn't have at least the A6 processor, unless Apple releases future versions that will run better. I've already downgraded my 4S and iPad back to 6.1.x.
 
that be me said:
The only lag I can consistently reproduce is when switching orientations with the keyboard active. The frame rate drops from 60 to like 16ish during the transition. A little annoying, but expected.
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Been happening to me along with typing using the keyboard.
 
leanh1991 said:
Just found out that if I turn ON Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast in Accessibility Option my 4S runs as smooth as iOS 6 :D however you will lose translucent effects.
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I turned Reduce Motion off, but there is really no need for Increased Contrast. The 4S runs iOS 7 just fine.
 
I love it. The first couple of hours were a bit confusing. But after some time youll appreciate the flow of the system. Everything feels very natural and makes ios 6 look cumbersome.

There are somme performance issues though. Not every animation is 100 percent fluid. Id say 90%. Also sometimes animation get a bit laggy when they are triggered for the first time (like spotlight - first time you pulll it down it stutters. you do it again its perfect - weird).

But after all this runs pretty damn good. I had former iOs versions that ran way slower on two year old phones (I cant remember it but the last versions on my iphone 3g were hell).
 
Thanks for asking this question. I also have a 4S and I'm still on 6.1.3. I've been tempted to find a way to get 7 early, but I believe I'll hold off for the 18th. I really don't want to break anything :) But this thread answers all my questions.
 
I did an update and am fairly happy with the GM so far. I have found a couple issues.

I do notice a slight bit of lag here and there. I noticed an issue where double-clicking the home button and switching from a game to Messages sometimes causes the game to reload and start over instead of resume from where I left it. I also had a weird issue this morning where I pressed the home button to wake it up and saw the apple on the screen followed by the rotating circle, like you get when you power up the phone. Oh, and battery life is el-crappo. To be fair, it seemed to be a lot worse lately while I was still on ios 6, so I can't blame that on the GM. I've already disabled background updating, turned off unnecessary location services, reset network settings, etc, so now I'm just browsing the battery threads looking for something that might help.
 
Thierry ba said:
When i'm scrolling images in fullscreen, some images bounce when loaded, do you have that glitch?
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Yep, that bug has been around in ost of the betas. Plus you can zoom out to see its actual aspect ratio. doing so activated the "pinch out" feature.

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I just went to launch iTunes radio. A supposedly major new feature and my 4S completely rebooted itself. That kind of hard crashing is simply unacceptable even for a .0 release.
 
I´m pretty satisfied...i have everything on, except 3g and bt, because i see no point in having a smartphone and then turning off stuff that makes it so...battery life is similar to what i got on ios6 lately

I installed it as "new iphone", i always do that when there are big updates
 
Michael CM1 said:
Crash, crash, crash, battery drain, crash, crash.

To be fair, I didn't do a restore and just upgraded. Also, my battery was hardly a pillar of strength before. But the Washington Post app crashed on me three times in a minute earlier today.
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You can't generalise iOS7 like this because a third-party app hasn't yet been updated to support it. :rolleyes:


I'm running a 4S and think iOS 7 is brilliant. Like most people, I see the occasional stutter in animations and scrolling but barely noticeable, plus I'll be going to a 5S in January when my contract ends. I can easily live with it for 4 months! :)
 
running alright...aside from the slow animations - which isnt a bug ....although, anyone else notice that their 4S is having a harder time keeping signal? be it wifi or 3G? It seems to always be 'low' on signal
 
As of now, the things that bother me are the lag in the Spotlight animation, the lag in the rotation when the keyboard is displayed and yeah, the duration of the animations in general, but that seems to be a design choice. Everything else is fine, I guess.
 
dylzen said:
As of now, the things that bother me are the lag in the Spotlight animation, the lag in the rotation when the keyboard is displayed and yeah, the duration of the animations in general, but that seems to be a design choice. Everything else is fine, I guess.
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Thank you for your common sense...
 
I have a iPod touch 5G it's basically the same hardware. What I was wondering is how is the memory holding up when multitasking for you guys running iOS 7 GM? Compared to iOS 6?
 

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My battery life is absolutely horrible in iOS 7, and has gotten worse with each beta and GM. In fact while emailing this screenshot to myself, my battery went from 28 to 26 percent. Less than 3 hours of actual usage, and most of it was texting and Facebook.
 

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MalcolmJID said:
You can't generalise iOS7 like this because a third-party app hasn't yet been updated to support it. :rolleyes:


I'm running a 4S and think iOS 7 is brilliant. Like most people, I see the occasional stutter in animations and scrolling but barely noticeable, plus I'll be going to a 5S in January when my contract ends. I can easily live with it for 4 months! :)
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Someone on another thread said to delete all settings and it would run smoother. Yeah that was an understatement. But no matter whether it was that or apps needing updates for supports, you will have complaints galore if numerous people have it running like that once it's a public release. I didn't expect perfection since I was getting it a week early.

It's been fine now for a day or so, and about a day on my iPad.
 
Dumb question, perhaps: in a clean install do you manually add back your contacts?
 
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