iOS 7 is practically unusable on my iPhone 4, how can I downgrade?

We have 3 iPhone 4's in our household (2 4's and 1 4s). They are all upgraded to the new ios 7 & and they are all horribly slow and nearly unusable. My son has an iPod 5 and that is doing pretty well, but that's it.

I also have 2 other friends who both have 4's and they have complained as well. In fact I serioulsy don't know of a single iPhone 4 user who is not having problems.

I'd also like to point out that none of them have ever posted on the internet about this, yet they (and we) are all having the same horrible experience.

I certainly hope Apple can put out a patch or at least allow users say a 30 day "trial" period where they can revert back to the old iOS. This makes complete sense as technology keeps ripping along, but folks only have so much disposable income. I can't afford 3 new iDevices every six months.

Regards

Hello mslow3, this is a bit of slow thread: to all I would like to say "it does not matter whether there are a lot of users having the 'slow problem' or not, here is someone that has this problem, so let us try to find a solution or at least an explanation"...

A "lot" (maybe .1% or 1% of all users) have this problem and it was already known in the beta testing period that there was a reasonable chance that it could make the iPhone 4 and 4s slow.

But since you have it installed now, you can not downgrade, like everybody here already sayd!

But you have the possibility to set the variables as optimal as can be.

read a a bit here:

http://osxdaily.com/2013/09/23/ios-7-slow-speed-it-up/

I also upgraded to iOS7 and regret it.

Many people around the world are unhappy with iOS7. We are not alone.

Submit your feedback to Apple's iPhone product team at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Spread the word, more people need to tell Apple they are unhappy with iOS7 and hopefully Apple will either fix the problems or let us downgrade to iOS6.

I have the same problem. This new iOS7 is horrible, slow, with a lot of bugs on iPhone4.

IOS6 WAS SO PERFECT!

IOS 7 started out with a nice, refreshed look, but the longer i use it, the worse it gets!

It's laggy, apps gets longer and longer to load/open (sometimes even worse, i'm forced back out!).

I love taking pictures, but now it's just frustrating!

kkellylynne, I have an iphone 4 and upgraded to iOS7 and like the others, my phone is practically unusable. Until I read your comment, I couldn't be bothered posting a complaint about this because my energy was better spent searching for a fix. I'm sure that many others feel the same or have just given up and gone and bought themselves a new iphone or switched to another phone. I can honestly say that my iphone 4 now runs slower than my friend's iphone 3GS operating on a much earlier version of iOS. Please don't attack people for voicing their legitimate iOS7 problems. The thing is, if you do a google search you will find a ridiculous amount of complaints about this issue and in my opinion and I'm sure, many others, this many complaints does warrant action from Apple. Had I been told that this might be an issue, then I would not have upgraded the operating system. Now I am left with a phone that is slower than my 3rd gen iPod touch. And yes, I have tried resetting network settings and even restoring. I just want to throw it against a brick wall everytime I look at it.

Can you imagine trying to make an emergency phone call on a phone that takes a full 5 seconds to bring up the dialer, then god knows how much longer to connect to the carrier network to start making that connection? Seems like a simple enough solution to allow those affected to revert back to iOS 6. Any reason why this is an issue Apple?

I replied with all of the same concerns as you. I think Apple decided to withdraw my comment after posting because I mentioned frustration to the point of wondering if there was a class-action suit against this conduct by Apple. My friend's iPhone 1 works better than mine even after I've done all the recommended procedures to clean up my iPhone 4. I do hope they come out with a fix or revert back to ios6. I was perfectly happy before ios7 updates and wished warnings had been expressed to iPhone 4 owners before download or at all. Now I have to buy a new phone, which at TMobile is full price! Glad you posted. Good luck!