I really want iOS 7.1 on the iPod touch 4G. And honestly, I really don't care how much it lags, Apple can remove more features than the iPhone 4 version if required to get *decent* speed. I tried to install Garageband on my iPod only to find out I need iOS 7.0 or later to install.
iPod touch, iOS 7
I'm not sure what you expect us to do. iOS 7 isn't going to run on the 4th-gen iPod touch, and that's about all that can be said.
iOS 7 is incompatible with the 4th-generation iPod Touch. Sorry, there's nothing you can do about it. Maybe contact apple.com/feedback, but I can guarantee Apple won't do anything.
Thanks, I've sent a request to release iOS 7.1 for iPod touch 4G.
It's not going to happen.
ipod 4 have only 256mb ram same as ipad 1 and processor is also slow so it cant handle all the new features of ios 7. iphone 4 does support coz it has 512mb ram so it barely handle ios 7 features and is dying with the lst version of ios on it.
chowdhary94, the processor is not the reason, it is the memory. The iPhone 4 has the same A4 processor as the 4G iPod touch. However, the iPhone 4 has 512 MB of memory
I know that the iPhone has 512mb of ram while the iPod touch 4G only has 256mb of ram. Honestly, Apple can enable virtual memory on the iPod touch 4G just to get reasonable performance. I know, someone will say vm can damage the flash drive inside, but the battery will most likely die sooner then the flash drive will get corrupted. Seems like everyone is gving me the answer I already know, but I think that if Apple put effort into iOS 7.1 for the iPod touch 4G, it will work. Not super fast, but not super slow either.
I have an iPhone 4 and iOS 7 is very slow compared to iOS 7 on my iPhone 4S and iPad 4.
If Apple had any intention of releasing iOS 7 on the fourth-generation iPod touch, they would have done so when they first released iOS 7. iOS 7 will not run on the fourth-gen iPod touch and that's the only answer anyone can give you.
VM lowers performance, by the way, it doesn't increase it. Flash memory is significantly slower that RAM. iOS already uses VM as efficiently as Apple can make it.
If you want iOS 7, you're just going to have to buy a fifth-generation iPod touch. The chances of Apple backing down on their decision not to support the fourth-gen iPod touch are so vanishingly small as to not be worth considering.
Regards.
I bought my iPod touch 4G just before the 5G came out, and I didn't know about the 5G till after it came out. However, when I get my Mac, and if a new model is about to come out, I will wait till the new model comes out.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com
Well, if I'm not getting iOS 7.1 on my iPod touch 4G, then I want Apple to make an iOS 7.1 compatability layer for iOS 6.1.6.
You do know we're users like your self, right? But feel free to contact Apple's developers and programmers, who knows you may get lucky.
Apple is not going to do it. iOS 7 requres 512 MB of memory, the 4G only has 256 MB.
How about you stop complaning? We all want iOS 7. You just got 6.1.5, an update for a outdated software version (iOS 6) only for a outdated device. (iPod touch 4G)
Maybe it is possible to make an iOS 7 version only for 256 MB RAM devices, but that requires time, money and a lot of work.
Either buy the 5G iPod, or an iPhone/iPad. Sorry we can't help you.
iOS 7.1 on iPod touch 4G
