iPhone 4S is in trouble after upgrading to iOS 8

Apple finally released the official version of iOS 8 today, but for iPhone 4S users, it is best not to update. According to a report from Ars Technica, the overall experience of iOS 8 on iPhone 4S is very bad, and it is recommended that iPhone 4S users do not upgrade to the latest iOS 8 and continue to use iOS 7. Although iOS 8 contains many new features, the smoothness of the system experience is more important.

Apple released the iPhone 4S in 2011, and it quickly became an old iOS device. The iPhone 4S did not support LTE networks, lacked Touch ID, and only supported 2.4GHz 801.11n Wi-Fi. In order to be compatible with the iPhone 4S, iOS 8 removed many features, such as underlying support for OpenGL ES 3.0, Metal graphics API, and 64-bit ARMv8 applications. As a result, the overall application performance of iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S was very slow, and animations were jerky.

Slow performance is not the only problem iPhone 4S encounters after upgrading to iOS 8. Since iOS 8 is designed for large-screen devices, the 3.5-inch screen of iPhone 4S will have various display problems, such as the text input box in emails being too small. Similar problems occurred when iPhone 4 was upgraded to iOS 7 last year, and Apple subsequently released iOS 7.1 to improve the performance of iPhone 4. Hopefully, Apple can complete the optimization of iPhone 4S devices in iOS 8.1.

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