Apple has made iOS 8 out for public recently, which will work on iPhones models of iPhone 4S to the recent iPhone 6+. Which was good! But as Ars Technica found out the hard way, subjecting your iPhone 4S to the new iOS 8 software update may not be worth it.
The 4S, which is unleashed to the world nearly three years ago, But it just plain doesn't have the hardware to support some of iOS 8's biggest features, like Touch ID, AirDrop, and the Metal graphics API.
And even with the stuff it can handle, the poor 4S may gets winded quickly. Ars points out that the phone's guts offer about a quarter of the performance of the iPhone 5S, and an even smaller fraction compared to the newest iPhone 6. Apps launch more slowly—sometimes taking 50 percent longer to load—with jerky transitions that hang and hesitate.
It's entirely possible for you to upgrade the brand new iOS 8 on your brand-old iPhone. And by doing so you'll get a lot of goodies like more keyboard options (finally) and fun widgets etc & etc.. Ars ultimately concludes that it's a trade-off you should go ahead and make.
But, Updating to that shiny new software into iPhone 4S's isn't good move yet slightly a tight fit that will leave phone and user alike groaning. New features like widgets and alternate keyboards are nice, but not at the cost of so much screen space and speed.
It would be better let it be stay old which is pleasantly outdated, for its sanity and your own. Or at the very least, just wait it out a while; there are chances that iOS 8.1 Update support for the older devices along for the ride. So, worthy in waiting for few more days & update your old 4S later.
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