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I disagree with this reasoning. The number of pixels to be pushed around did not change from iOS 6 to iOS 7. It's still the same. The fancy graphics effects are

by jwr 13y ago

I disagree with this reasoning. The number of pixels to be pushed around did not change from iOS 6 to iOS 7. It's still the same. The fancy graphics effects are reduced already by default, and you can reduce them even further. My phone doesn't do visibly anything different from what it did under iOS 6. And yet it is much, much slower. I already did everything that the article you quoted suggests. My phone runs in high-contrast, super-accessibility, no-fx-please mode. And performance still sucks. To give you an example: I sometimes press power-on, nothing happens for a second or two. Then I press the home button and after another two-three seconds I get… a screenshot, just as if both buttons were pressed simultaneously. Number of pixels, blur, seriously? We haven't even gotten to displaying the lock screen yet! I still believe there is lots that can be optimized, but Apple chose not to do it. It wasn't laziness, it was a business decision — their time is better spent implementing new stuff — but that is a decision I disagree with. Or, more precisely — I disagree with this decision given that they called iPhone 4 "supported".

Terretta 13y ago
> I sometimes press power-on, nothing happens for a second or two. Then I press the home button and after another two-three seconds I get… a screenshot, just as if both buttons were pressed simultaneously. Sounds like your phone's borked in some way. That happens to me sometimes (1 in 10?) when bringing in legacy settings on to a new device. I've helped upgrade several 4 (not 4s) users and they're happy. On all of them I turned off motion, turned off blur, turned off background updates, turned off auto music/app/updates downloads. If a phone still has slowness, it's usually a bad setting brought forward. Seems to usually be in email or network settings. I delete email accounts, reset network settings, and recreate email accounts, leaving iCloud as Push and all others as Fetch, Manual. If that doesn't fix, I try again, this time "Erase all settings". (Not Content and settings.) These are the same steps I use to get back battery life losses. Something goes wrong, runs in background, kills batt and slows phone. Finally, one friend has Downcaster and always ends up with a full phone. Below a level of free memory the device definitely slows drastically. Touch and wait kind of slow, less than 2GB on 64GB device is noticeable, less than 500MB get to be a real problem.

by jwr 13y ago

Terretta 13y ago

> I sometimes press power-on, nothing happens for a second or two. Then I press the home button and after another two-three seconds I get… a screenshot, just as if both buttons were pressed simultaneously. Sounds like your phone's borked in some way. That happens to me sometimes (1 in 10?) when bringing in legacy settings on to a new device. I've helped upgrade several 4 (not 4s) users and they're happy. On all of them I turned off motion, turned off blur, turned off background updates, turned off auto music/app/updates downloads. If a phone still has slowness, it's usually a bad setting brought forward. Seems to usually be in email or network settings. I delete email accounts, reset network settings, and recreate email accounts, leaving iCloud as Push and all others as Fetch, Manual. If that doesn't fix, I try again, this time "Erase all settings". (Not Content and settings.) These are the same steps I use to get back battery life losses. Something goes wrong, runs in background, kills batt and slows phone. Finally, one friend has Downcaster and always ends up with a full phone. Below a level of free memory the device definitely slows drastically. Touch and wait kind of slow, less than 2GB on 64GB device is noticeable, less than 500MB get to be a real problem.