Like many others, i updated my iPhone 4s to iOS 8 yesterday. I immediately noticed that my phone ran extremely slowly with many delays. I'm just wondering if I should revert back to iOS 7 (I'm aware that I have a short window of time for this) or perhaps wait until apple updates ios 8 to run more smoothly on the 4s like they did with one of the early iOS 7 updates. Thanks!
iPhone 4S, iOS 8
It has been well documented that the 4S, while supporting iOS 8, would suffer a performance degradation. If you find the cons of iOS 8 outweighing the pros, perhaps downgrading until a later date would be a good idea. Given all the new features in iOS 8, I wouldn't expect a later patch to "fix it" for 4S's.
Unfortunately, there's never been a supported way to "downgrade" to a previous iOS version.
Actually, in the case of iOS 8 to iOS 7, there is a small window where Apple will allow downgrading to happen. Check out the detailed instructions listed here: www.gottabemobile.com/2014/09/17/downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7
Thanks. Ya I saw those instructions too but was wondering if I should just wait it out. Although I'm probably just in denial and should just say the *heck with it and downgrade...
I am on a 4S (until Friday 🙂 myself) and I would agree that there is definitely some lag on the 4S under iOS 8. Specifically, I notice that while in iMessage it seems slower to respond to keyboard input. Perhaps the new addition of the predictive wording caused that. However, at this time, the benefits appear to outweigh the costs for me. Your results may vary.
Using an iPad2 I am seeing some lag issues as well. Not sure if it is the apps, the ios, or the ipad. Most likely a combo of all. Like the update but until 8.1 comes out my iPhone 4s will stay at 7.0.
iOS 8 causing my iPhone 4s to run very slow.
