I'm still on iOS 5 on a 4S, considering going to iOS 7, mistake?

[Marcos]

Does it get super laggy or have they taken care of that yet?

To be fair, even iOS 5 is getting Laggy now which is annoying because I know for a *fact* it was fast at everything. It's tough not to believe the conspiracy that the OS is built to slow down after a couple of years to force upgrades.

 

[Will_3rd]

I find iOS7 fine on my 4S personally, performance is worse on the iPhone 4 by all accounts so you should be safe.

Starting fresh (factory reset) might improve your performance.

 

[Chandler_90]

I too am on iOS7 on a 4S and whilst after a bit of time it gets a bit laggy it was fine to begin with

 

[KIA]

Starting fresh (factory reset) might improve your performance.

This. iOS 7.1 is heavily optimised for older hardware.

 

[Marcos]

I'm one of those that likes to keep restoring from backup, I have too many old txts etc. unless there is a smart program out there that exports old txts into something browsable?

 

[Marcos]

I too am on iOS7 on a 4S and whilst after a bit of time it gets a bit laggy it was fine to begin with

That puts me off a little :-/, thanks for your input

 

[Kainz]

I wouldn't upgrade tbh unless a specific app requires the 'latest and greatest' version.
The 4S will cope fine with iOS7 tbh as it is a dual core SoC but it will feel laggy in places against version 5. I gave into the urge to upgrade my iPad 3 from ios6 to 7 and now regret it as it is very crash prone and laggy (ie the task switcher takes its time to appear).

 

[dav3evans]

I had iOS7 on my 4s until I upgraded at the end of my contract and it was fine.

 

[LordSplodge]

I'm one of those that likes to keep restoring from backup, I have too many old txts etc. unless there is a smart program out there that exports old txts into something browsable?

Any reason you need to hang on to old texts? Much better to start afresh than restore old fluff. By the way I do believe you can get program's to backup text messages some even in the App Store (but you'd probably need iOS 7!)

 

[McBain]

I'm on iOS 7 on my 4S and can't say i've noticed any massive lag, but then my phone doesn't really get used for much more than texting, calling, bit of Facebook and music.

 

[UberTiger]

Any reason you need to hang on to old texts? Much better to start afresh than restore old fluff. By the way I do believe you can get program's to backup text messages some even in the App Store (but you'd probably need iOS 7!)

I can't speak for Marcos, but in my case I keep all old texts as I use my phone for business and I find it very useful to be able to quickly browse my old text history if a customer from 6 or 12 months ago contacts me.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I've been on it since release. It's laggy at times, and 7.1 didn't help. I would advise doing a fresh install of 7.1 through backup and restore through recovery mode.

 

[Thekwango]

still rocking an iphone 4 and I've found that the ios7 has breathed new life into my handset. there's the occasional laggy moment but on the whole it has improved the phone

 

[ikillbears]

makes my phone slow as hell.