How do I prevent ios7 from freezing every few seconds?
I have an iphone 4 and naivily installed ios7 thinking it was going to be the problem to slow-performing ios6.
Version 7.02 worked reasonably well. However, after updating to 7.03 a few weeks ago, my iphone become almost unusable.
Every few seconds (~10-20s), the iphone freezes/stalls for a few seconds (4-5) and then comes normally back to life.
During these freezes, all sound stop (podcast, music, or youtube), images freeze (videos) and touchscreen is unresponsive (e.g. cannot scroll or click in any application). After resuming a freeze, all operation come back to normal.
What is annoying is the frequency of this freezes, which makes listening to music/podcasts or browsing the internet or even looking at your emails a horrible experience.
Often, a complete reboot will do the trick. I am doing this now 5-6 times a day, which is frustrating. But very often, even after a reboot a with no application open, the iphone still freezes.
I tried taking out 'background updates', or automatic appstore updates, or anything that would ask too much of the processor but nothing changes.
Yesterday, by chance, I discovered that this that not happen when the wifi is off. So, now I am having to start a podcast, wait until most of it is downloaded, and, then switch wifi off to listen to it. Very archaic. Also, I cannot normally surf or do anything else that requires being online...
I still cannot understant how apple releases such a faulty OS.
Anyone has any idea of how to fix this? Has anyone seen a similar behaviour??
thanks for any help/advice!
iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.3