iOS7 and iPhone 4, any takers?

Raymond Lin · 26 Sep 2013 at 13:25

Skyboat said:
I admire your patience, I have a 4S and I think that's getting a bit long in the tooth

There is a delay from pressing the backspace delete key when posting on this board now.....Hmmmmm

Must resist !

edit, some apps are "unusable" it doesn't know I have a IP4 and only shows the middle section of the app...

Raymond Lin · 2 Oct 2013 at 19:33

Okay, more bugs.

When playing music, and the phone is locked, the rewind, pause and next song button on screen does not work. The seek and volume sliders does.

To skip a song or go back a song I need to unlock the phone now....what the hell.

MoRT489 · 3 Oct 2013 at 10:10

Does it work using the mic button on the headphone cable (if you have one)?

Morfik · 3 Oct 2013 at 13:32

Two thoughts (that probably won't go down so well on the Apple Forum, but I think they're valid):

1) Slowing down your iPhone 4 is part of the Apple marketing plan. You get so fed up with it, go into an Apple Store and have a play on a quick shiny new iPhone 5S and soon you end up buying it. What's more you're much happier with your new 5S than you would have been had you kept your iPhone 4 on iOS6 given how poorly it's been performing since upgrading to iOS7.

2) Maybe Android fragmentation isn't so bad. Your old phone might not get the shiniest new version, but it keeps working how it always used to. The new Google model of pushing essential updates through Google Play Services, will let them fight the downside of fragmentation without having the same issues as iOS7 is for you.

MoRT489 · 3 Oct 2013 at 20:36

Agree +1111

Glaucus · 3 Oct 2013 at 20:45

Keeping my iphone4 firmly on ios6 till they sort out the stability of safari and fix the notifications for mail and app store.

Its not been a nice upgrade on the ipad.

MoRT489 · 3 Oct 2013 at 23:24

I've not noticed any of those issues on my ip4.

bloodiedathame · 4 Oct 2013 at 07:23

MoRT489 said:
Agree +1111

So much so that my Mums 3GS running iOS5 runs faster than my 4 running ios6 (opening apps, loading content etc)

Raymond Lin · 7 Oct 2013 at 17:58

Restored the phone, imported apps back on from fresh...music player now works again.

Phone is a tiny bit quicker too...guess I can live with it for another year.

Buckster · 7 Oct 2013 at 18:15

I too did a DFU restore with IOS7 after an initial go at an upgrade and being disappointed with battery life etc

still don't like the animations - but battery life after DFU restore to IOS7 is back to what I'd expect if not better

over weekend I managed 2 days 5 hours of standby and 5 hours of usage out of one charge - not bad for a phone/battery over 3 years old