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Safe to update iPhone 4 to ios 7.1.1?

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pjny

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Hi,

My wife's iphone 4 is on ios 6.0.1 and I want to update her phone to ios 7.1.1. Has anyone done this and how is the performance? It's pretty zippy with 6.0.1 and I've heard horror stories about ios 7 on iphone 4s e.g. lag, unresponsive touchscreen etc.

Has 7.1.1 made a difference or should I leave well enough alone? She mainly uses the iPhone for regular stuff like facebook, web, email.

Thanks.
 
pjny said:
Hi,

My wife's iphone 4 is on ios 6.0.1 and I want to update her phone to ios 7.1.1. Has anyone done this and how is the performance? It's pretty zippy with 6.0.1 and I've heard horror stories about ios 7 on iphone 4s e.g. lag, unresponsive touchscreen etc.

Has 7.1.1 made a difference or should I leave well enough alone? She mainly uses the iPhone for regular stuff like facebook, web, email.

Thanks.
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From

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/10/ios71-makes-iphone4-snappier/

In a few instances, iOS 7.1 very nearly catches up with iOS 6.1.3, which is impressive given the gap between the two operating systems in some of these apps. It's not a complete recovery from the original iOS 7.0 release, but it's about as good as Apple can do with hardware this old. The small speed improvements are present throughout the operating system, and this makes the iPhone 4 feel more responsive than it did, if not always as responsive as it once was.

iOS 7.1 also helps with the UI jerkiness that was all over the place in 7.0. It's easiest to capture the difference in video—actions like launching apps or pulling up the Control Center shade are always visibly jerky in iOS 7.0, but they're smooth (or at least smoother) in the new update.
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There's a chart of times on the original leak.
 
pjny said:
Hi,

My wife's iphone 4 is on ios 6.0.1 and I want to update her phone to ios 7.1.1. Has anyone done this and how is the performance? It's pretty zippy with 6.0.1 and I've heard horror stories about ios 7 on iphone 4s e.g. lag, unresponsive touchscreen etc.

Has 7.1.1 made a difference or should I leave well enough alone? She mainly uses the iPhone for regular stuff like facebook, web, email.

Thanks.
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Another things which may or may not affect her is FaceTime. She will need to update to iOS 7 to use it.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1728742/
 
I read about 50% for - 50% against having the latest iOS7 on an iPhone 4.

Lots of people whining about the lag and because they don't have the option to downgrade...
Others saying they can live with it for the newest bells, whistles and apps.
 
dhlizard said:
I read about 50% for - 50% against having the latest iOS7 on an iPhone 4.

Lots of people whining about the lag and because they don't have the option to downgrade...
Others saying they can live with it for the newest bells, whistles and apps.
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I had an iphone 4 and I updated to iOS 7. Didn't test it on 7.1, but I would much rather have the buggy laggy mess that iOS 7 was on it rather than iOS 6.
 
richwoodrocket said:
I had an iphone 4 and I updated to iOS 7. Didn't test it on 7.1, but I would much rather have the buggy laggy mess that iOS 7 was on it rather than iOS 6.
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There are people who care about looks more than functionality/performance/stability, and then there are many others who would never care about looks much at all, let alone over all those other much more important things.
 
My kids have an iphone 4 that is on iOS 7.1.1. 7 did improve dramatically after the 7.1 update, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you update from 6 now.

The control center feature alone is worth the upgrade, I think living with 6 would suck after being on 7.
 
perezr10 said:
My kids have an iphone 4 that is on iOS 7.1.1. 7 did improve dramatically after the 7.1 update, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you update from 6 now.



The control center feature alone is worth the upgrade, I think living with 6 would suck after being on 7.
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Yep. Control center would be a breaker for me too.
 
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