Does iOS 7 Slow Down an iPhone 4?

dilbert41,

Go to Settings>iCloud>documents and data and turn it OFF.

Great suggestion! My iPhone 4 is lightning fast again. You're doing the Lord's work. B^]

Joe D

How did you downgrade to ios 6? tell me please, i want to go back!!!!

I have an iPhone 4. Upgraded to iOS 6, phone got slow...upgraded to iOS 7, phone got even slower. I've tried all suggestions to help increase performance but still very slow. I suspect Apple, with upgrades, is attempting to get us to buy iPhone 5's. The decreased performance has turned me off on Apple products. I'll be shopping for a new phone, Android sounds good . (Just typing this on my phone was aggravating, letters on keyboard lagged!)

I followed the steps of the article on the following link and my iPhone 4 is performing much better with iOS 7.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/23/ios-7-slow-speed-it-up/?utm_source=feedburner&utm

IT WILL SLOW DOWN

If your happy with the iphone 4, then don't upgrade

I just had top buy a new phone because my Iphone 4 become way too slow after the upgrade

Sad really - cause i really loved the little sucker on the IOS6

Also if you have a large collection of music videos, they will be in order of song after the upgrade on the video app, currently they are by artist.

Is there a setting for that?

When I do that, i get "more" and "archive." Is there a way to change that?

So guys what is going on right now? Does iphone 4 still lag with ios 7??? I still haven't updated mine cause of what I heard and now I can't sync with itunes.

Same thinking and experience- insufficient Apple response. I might try the 6 if it's out before May; if not , time to look at the Lumia, Note 3 and I believe Microsoft may come out with a game changer shortly. I have strong reason to believe MS is going to do this in the next 30 days.

I am still having occaisonal odd behavior and app crashes, etc. But it is almost liveable now.

The thing I did which improved the situation the most was disablel background updates

(and I had disabled auto-update long ago).

So now apps are not automatically trying to get most recent data in the background. I guess that means they must refresh when I open them. It seems to have made no difference in any app behavior. But general performance seems to be back almost to where it was with iOS6 and I'm not constantly losing my contacts and finding Find-my-iPhone disabled, etc.

It was "Turn Off Background App Refresh" found at http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/23/ios-7-slow-speed-it-up/?utm_source=feedburner&utm which someone posted earlier in this thread.

My experience is that the iPhone 4 is very slow on iOS7, there is a time lag between touching a letter key and the letter appearing. In particular on Evernote for iOS7, but that is the app I use the most. It has improved with a recent update to the app.

Idk about you folks, but I'm using iOS7 on my iPhone 4 like two months and I don't have any problems..

I'm running ios 7.0.4 on the iPhone 4.

It IS slower, there's no doubt about that. Some apps take (way) longer to open, the scrolling is a bit sluggish sometimes and on rare occasions there's a bit of lag in the keyboard. Overall it's nothing I can't live with and the phone is far from unusable.

I actually can't tell if there's much difference performance-wise when turning off animations and increasing the contrast, common advice when it comes to speeding up ios7. I actually prefer the animations on, it makes navigation much more streamlined and visually pleasing. Sure, when comparing to the performance on my iPad it seems very sluggish but i'ts OK when doing everyday stuff.

My biggest grief is that more demanding games like GTA Vice City that actually ran surprisingly well on ios 6 doesn't do as well on the ios7.0.4 even when rebooting the device. Not that I think the iphone is nessecarily the best format for those kind of games anyway but still, it doesn't seem to handle graphics and processing intense apps and games as well anymore.

On the whole I can't say I regret updating. No matter what people say about ios7 I like the updated graphics and the whole OS seems more thought out and streamlined then before. Some things are a little annoying but in my opinion the features and usability of ios7 was worth it, your experience may differ.