If you downloaded iOS 8 following its release yesterday, then you may have hit glitches with certain apps,
and experienced some slowdowns if you have an older device.
While the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are compatible with iOS 8, these are the oldest iDevices Apple lists as such
– and as is usually the case on the fringe of compatibility, the new operating system doesn't run quite as
slickly as it should on these pieces of hardware.
the issues with the Dropbox app yesterday, and HealthKit (new with iOS 8) is also problematic by all
accounts. Some apps are taking up to 50 per cent longer to load, too.
The overall experience on the iPhone 4S has been highlighted as somewhat sluggish, with Ars
Technica pointing out that the outdated hardware in the 4S (compared to the 5S, let alone the iPhone 6) just
doesn't have to muscle to run the new operating system smoothly, with animations being a little choppy.
Not only that, but the 3.5in screen size doesn't fit so well with iOS 8, given that the upgrade was designed
with the bigger-screened new iPhones in mind, with the small screen making things feel rather claustrophobic.
All this has seen many folks wheeling out an old chestnut, namely that Apple likes to hamper older devices
with borderline-viable OS upgrades to ensure folks are wanting to upgrade their handsets.
However, while Ars seems to deliver some apparently nasty barbs here, the site does note that iOS 8 on the
4S isn't as slow as iOS 7 was on the iPhone 4 – and that despite performance hiccups, most folks will still
want to upgrade to iOS 8 on the 4S due to the extra features offered. Evidently any sluggishness isn't that
bad...
Furthermore, reader comments (and general chatter elsewhere on the net) seem to suggest that performance
isn't actually that much of an issue on the 4S.
If you have an iPhone 4S, it is, of course, your decision whether to make the leap or not...
As regards the app bugs such as Dropbox, hopefully they'll be patched soon enough, too.
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