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Updating iPhone 4S to iOS 6 worth it, performance wise?

tennisproha

tennisproha

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I have an iPhone 4S with the latest 5.1.1 as do so many others on here. There was a discussion on this forum a few weeks ago about what would cause performance changes over time on iPhone X.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1421836/

Some felt it was content accumulation while others thought updating to newer, more resource intensive OS' was the culprit.

Will updating to iOS 6 cause a 4S to have 'lesser' performance? I don't mean features obviously rather CPU, GPU, etc...
 
My 4S actually feels a little snappier since I updated...and, I didn't do a clean install, either.
 
I have a 4 and have not had any performance loss that I've noticed over iOS 5
 
SO worth it. To stay on topic, it seems snappier. Siri is quicker and more responsive (recognizes my voice better which saves editing time), web seems to be quicker and apps are snappier.
 
The entire os feels slightly quicker on my 4s too and I just did the ota update too.

Best to give it a month or so for the system caches to fill up
 
tennisproha said:
I have an iPhone 4S with the latest 5.1.1 as do so many others on here. There was a discussion on this forum a few weeks ago about what would cause performance changes over time on iPhone X.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1421836/

Some felt it was content accumulation while others thought updating to newer, more resource intensive OS' was the culprit.

Will updating to iOS 6 cause a 4S to have 'lesser' performance? I don't mean features obviously rather CPU, GPU, etc...
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If you want battery drain, then go ahead and update.
 
Spectrum Abuser said:
If you want battery drain then go ahead and take the phone off of the charger.
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So you are gonna make a useless statement? :rolleyes: I've been using every iOS 6 betas and the GM, I know what I'm talking about. Go look around, 90% 4S users are reporting horrible battery life on the official'GM of iOS6
 
As a developer I had access to the "GM" release about a week ago.

I updated my iPhone 4s to test my apps on a physical device. I also use my 4s as my main phone. (yeah, I'm a poor developer - so I can't afford "test" units.)

The 4s works great with iOS 6. No reason not to update. Battery life is the same. A few things are more polished, like the App Store. Camera does Panoramas now, Siri does a bit more -- but for some reason I think she sounds different.

Anyway, after a week I haven't found any show stoppers, performance issues, or battery problems.
 
JS82712 said:
So you are gonna make a useless statement? :rolleyes: I've been using every iOS 6 betas and the GM, I know what I'm talking about. Go look around, 90% 4S users are reporting horrible battery life on the official'GM of iOS6
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I had a battery issue when I upgraded to 5. Somone here suggested the following.

Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

I was skeptical, but desperate to get the battery life back to where it was so I tried it and was surprised to see that it did the trick. Might be worth a shot a try.
 
JS82712 said:
So you are gonna make a useless statement? :rolleyes: I've been using every iOS 6 betas and the GM, I know what I'm talking about. Go look around, 90% 4S users are reporting horrible battery life on the official'GM of iOS6
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My wife and I must be the lucky 10% as we both are up at 5am and use our phones through late in the night with zero battery life issues.

Can't say the phone is noticeably faster or more quick with apps but I can say it's not any slower.
 
pdqgp said:
My wife and I must be the lucky 10% as we both are up at 5am and use our phones through late in the night with zero battery life issues.
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I use my phone with almost identical usage patterns everyday,
And I noticed a significant drop in battery levels over the day, care to explain why this is the case?

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2IS said:
I had a battery issue when I upgraded to 5. Somone here suggested the following.

Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

I was skeptical, but desperate to get the battery life back to where it was so I tried it and was surprised to see that it did the trick. Might be worth a shot a try.
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Well, I did two clean installs, and yes I reset all the things one could possibly think of.
 
JS82712 said:
I use my phone with almost identical usage patterns everyday, And I noticed a significant drop in battery levels over the day, care to explain why this is the case?
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I've been on the GM Version since last week with one of my phones with zero effects and like you, I have a pretty solid routine. Same question back at you.

I just updated the other phone today and so far it's been great.
 
Yikes. Performance on my iPod is awful. How do I 'downgrade'? My iPad 3 also seems more sluggish. Disappointing would be an understatement.
 
Safari is MUCH faster in iOS 6 on iPhone 4S.

Actually, several things are faster now. Even my keyboard lag is gone and I didn't even perform a clean install.
 
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