iOS 5 lag on iPod Touch 4th Gen

The only reason I even purchased an iPod touch was because there are more apps for ops devices, I did use one before ios5 came about, and this is garbage. I'll never buy another apple product again if this isn't fixed. I mean that because I was reluctant about getting this in the first place not to mention their business ethics leave much to be desired.

Appauling lag here too. Glad this was fLAGged up.

Both Infinity Blade and Infinity Blade II is very smooth on my iPod touch 4th gen, sometimes it does lag, but its quite rare. I have a level 73 character in Infinity Blade 2, you can see I played it a lot. I'd say 98% smooth, 2% lag at unpredictable times, probably iOS doing something in the background. iOS 5.1.

most of the lag have seen deals with the stock apps. as JWAeroman mentions, unlocking the iPod when the music app is open takes about 4-5 seconds. The camera app lags pretty terribly. Safari takes about 5 seconds to show the keyboard when i tap on the search field / url field.

i don't play infinity blade, but i have noticed that most third party apps run pretty smoothly once they are opened. (with the exception of ad supported apps...)

It seems that the problem is in the core OS... the stock apps & home screen...

Well, it seems like I may have to eat my words from my previous post.

I called Apple to explain (complain) my problem. The tech, Scott, was very professional and understanding in light of how upset I was. He educated me on a little known (at least to me) fact about the newer iPod Touch compared to the older one I was used to. I had heard the newer ones were capable of multitasking, but I didn't realize the RAMifications of that little feature.

He had me double-click the home button at which point a menu not unlike the dock on a desktop/laptop Mac popped up at the bottom of the iPod screen. He explained that every time I used an application, it went into this "tray" and stayed active (tying up valuable RAM). The only way to free up the RAM was to access this menu, then press and hold your finger on one of the active applications in the tray. After a few seconds, the items in the tray will begin to do a Chihuahua like wiggle with a minus sign hovering over them. Simply click on the minus sign, and the application will shut off, thus freeing up RAM. You have to do this one by one. I had about a dozen apps running.

I asked if this process was expedited by shutting off the iPod or resetting it via holding down the home button & power button simultaneously. He told me "no". You have to manually go in and shut off the active applications.

I hope this helps everyone else who seems to be having this problem. My iPod is running great with no apparent issues. I apologize to Apple and to anyone else who may have already stated this fix action and I missed it.

Great post JWAeroman. I also thought double clicking the home button and killing off every item in the bottom tray and restarting would be the solution but it isn't. Seems the device can only hold open 2 apps at a time for multitasking anyway. I always keep 1gb spare on my 8gb iPod Touch and frequently clear cache / history in Safari and anything in the double-click home button tray thing and my device still freezes and suffers from lag.

4-5 secs of waiting is bad UXD on such an awesome product.

Have you done any jailbraking? If you do, your iPod touch 4th gen will definitely lags. If you have older versions of this device, the lags will be much heavier.

Cheers.

Yes it does very much since the ios5 update hope they fix it soon this is getting old.The new Samsung mp3 player is starting to look better and better and i love everything apple.Come on apple take care of this.

Wow thats awsome thanks for the info never knew my ipod could do that it helped alot.

ios 6 has came out and it still lags, i hope they fix it by ios 7.

You could also try reducing the number of apps that are using location sevices on your device to see if that option works for you. It worked for me. Also after reading JWAeroman's post clearing out the bottom tray might also have speeded things up somewhat. There's no lag at all on my iPod touch

Well i always update my 4th gen iPod to the newest version of iOS. (currently 6.1.3) and it never lags. okay sometimes but only when i use an app/game that is taking alot of cpu and memory and stuff

I've had this same issue not a lot but when it happen it's fustrating ... Apple please look into this ... I have tried the tips in the chain ... Thanks everyone for the suggestions ...