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I posted my experience installing ios7 on my ipad 3 yesterday but deleted it thinking I should give it more time in order to be fair.

I continue to feel it's not an overall positive - glitchy, stuttery and slow animations, degraded battery life, UI inconsistencies, touch lag and inaccuracies ( never thought I would say that about iOS ) are all significant downsides for what is essentially a paint job and a one that I happen to not like very much.

But then maybe it works better on newer hardware. This would be the second time in Apple's update history that older devices got a poor update experience.

Curious what new features people like enough to offset the downsides.

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> Curious what new features people like enough to offset the downsides.

i have iOS 7 on an iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPad mini. no touch lag, "slow animation" or "inaccuracies" so far.

I have iOS 7 on an iPod Touch 5th generation and a iPad 3rd generation, and I will say that it absolutely brought a little bit of Android (well, to be fair earlier generations of Android as this isn't really an issue anymore) to iOS -- touch lag all over the place, often a second+ before the keyboard starts accepting inputs, etc.

It seems like people are disagreeing with you, but i've installed it on my 4S and the animations are stuttery and slow every now and then. Often enough for it to be annoying and noticeable.

I did a restore using recovery mode to iOS 7 - nothing got better. Then I did a DFU restore to 6.1.3 and boy I am happy. The thing works admirably well. This seals it for me - at least in its current state iOS7 isn't something that is usable on older hardware. (People with iPhone 4 also seem to have similar experiences.)

My iPad 3 works fine. That said, it's still unacceptable that yours doesn't run well, but at least the experience of others with a similar device suggests that there's a chance you can fix it. Spotlight indexing could be the culprit.

It's gotten little better overnight but the keyboard input lag is still there - I type a bit fast in any text area and characters appears slowly - some time after multiple key presses. So are the slower animations. Lot of people are saying to DFU and reinstall to fix it - I am reluctant as I have to restore a bunch of things - PDFs, iTunesU stuff, music and videos manually.

The slow keyboard input happens to me on my iPhone 4. I can type a whole text message and not see any of it for 5-10 seconds.

I suspect it has something to do with auto correct/spell check but I haven't tested anything yet.

BTW, restoring fresh to iOS7 did not fix it for me. Text kept appearing slowly in the text input areas - long after keypresses. So I restored back to 6.1.3 and all is well again.

Just in response to the touch/typing lag - You can remedy this by resetting your settings.

It's a pita, but it helped me in this situation.

Having installed it on my iPad 2, I'm not noticing anything by way of glitches. battery life seems the same and there's no lag. Extended transition times are likely to get dull quite soon, I suspect and I dislike the icon designs. But overall, positive.

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