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Iphone 4 iso 7

I did an over the air update, didn't reset anything. Seems to be working surprisingly well.
I had tried out Beta 1 and Beta 2 and absolutely hated how slow and crashy it was on my Ip4. Trying to type anything in any text field took a good 10 seconds for it to respond. I have to say, it's been improved quite a bit since those early betas. Still laggy here and there, but overall i'm pretty pleased. I was really expecting it to be unusable.
I do have 6.3GB free space available, so it's possible giving the new os some room to breathe may help with slowness.
 
It only doesn't seem laggy because you are acustomed to a slow processor. Use a 5 or better and you will see how laggy the 4 really is. It's like eating saltines for your entire life and someone putting a small piece of cheese on one, yeah, tastes good, but your head will explode when you eat a nice filet mignon.
 
I'm loving iOS 7 on my iPhone 4! I was expecting lagginess (relative to how iOS 6 ran on it), but it works just as well, or quite possibly better, than iOS 6. The apps themselves don't work any faster, but the OS seems noticeably faster.

The only thing I'm wondering, is there no weather in the Notification Centre on the iPhone 4? I don't see a setting for it either, just for Stocks...
 
The UI animations are laggy on my iPhone 4. The frame rate of the animations is simply too low. Here are some scenarios where it's choppy: when exiting multitasking, brining up the control center on the home screen, the animation after "sliding to unlock" and right before entering the passcode, etc... :( BTW, it was a clean install.

I know its not because the iPhone 4 is old hardware because it did handle similar animations at a very high frame rate.
Anyone else having these problems on iPhone 4? If yes, please send feedback to Apple!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
 
I've got a 32GB 4 and usually run with only 2GB free. I cleared out some unused apps and did the OTA update with 4GB free. Everything runs mostly just fine for me - occasional lag, but nothing worse than with iOS 6.

Unfortunately, an iOS upgrade does nothing to help an aging home button that is growing spottier by the day.
 
nice and smooth here too - just updated OTA, no fresh install. they have taken some of the visual effects away for the 4 so i figure thats why.
 
i cant make a fresh install, itunes gives me "error 3004" when i try to restore.
are that busy the servers? i tried all day.
 
I just installed iOS 7 on my mum's iPhone 4 with an iTunes restore, setting as a mew phone and no iCloud backup. It's amazingly fast and stable, no complaints, good work, Craig <3
 
Same here OP.

After Reset all Settings, re-adding all emails and iCloud, tweaking some settings (increased contrast for example)... it is super smooth.

Definitely smoother than iOS6 for me
 
Rocko1 said:
It only doesn't seem laggy because you are acustomed to a slow processor. Use a 5 or better and you will see how laggy the 4 really is. It's like eating saltines for your entire life and someone putting a small piece of cheese on one, yeah, tastes good, but your head will explode when you eat a nice filet mignon.
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True that. Couldn't have said it better. Nevertheless, apart from having translucency nearly non existent and the "lag and stutter", I do feel the iPhone 4 indeed works well on iOS 7.
 
while IOS7 seems smooth on my Iphone 4 - I'm finding multi-tasking not as good ?

before I could run Spotify in background whilst browsing the web, moving apps around on IOS desktop etc

now it stutters fairly often, the sound breaking up - I never had the sound break up before

I'm guessing its the higher overhead of the new OS ?
 
I haven't had any issues. I tried it first with the upgrade, then with the restore to see if there is a difference. The restore does tend to have less "lag," though I feel most of the lag is simply because the phone is updating a ton of data in the app store, etc. Once everything is updated and restored from backup, it works fine. It's not blazing fast, but is as fast as the phone ever was--and the battery life is slightly better after the restore than it was on iOS 6.
 
sshhoott said:
The UI animations are laggy on my iPhone 4. The frame rate of the animations is simply too low. Here are some scenarios where it's choppy: when exiting multitasking, brining up the control center on the home screen, the animation after "sliding to unlock" and right before entering the passcode, etc... :( BTW, it was a clean install.

I know its not because the iPhone 4 is old hardware because it did handle similar animations at a very high frame rate.
Anyone else having these problems on iPhone 4? If yes, please send feedback to Apple!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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Do a clean install first. That'd probably be their first recommendation.

FWIW, I'm seeing no choppiness in the scenarios you list.
 
Runs like crap on my co-worker's iPhone 4. She did the update through iTunes, but I don't suppose she did a "clean install". Doesn't bother her though because she's getting the 5s soon.
 
I posted earlier that it was slow. It was at first, and the phone app and a few other things have a bit more pause, but after a day of using it, it's like a new phone, and a lot of fun. Some things have actually sped up.
 
Same here. Much better than I anticipated. Was thinking about getting a 5s, but will definitely wait for the 6 now.
 
Moving around the UI is fairly slick. Even Facebook is smoother than it ever was in IO6.... That is until you try typing...

All these people who claim IOS7 is fine on the the iPhone 4. Have you tried sending a SMS / do any major typing. It's taking the best part of 20 seconds for SMS text to show up here.

How can Apple seriously include the iPhone 4 when you can't do something as simple as SMS typing. I'm a massive Apple fan, but that's just a disgrace!
 
It all works smoothly for me.

I updated through itunes. Didn't do any fancy factory resets. And it all looks very smooth to me. All the apps, including Messages, load and operate as quickly as they did in iOS6. And I have NO trouble with keyboard lag. Clearly, based on my own experience I'd recommend updating from iOS6. The only gripe I have so far with iOS7 is the overly large graphics within the camera app that restrict the viewing space.
Being able to run the current software on older hardware is one of the few ways we have to recoup the apple tax.

Love,

B.
 
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