can you use an iPhone 4s in 2023?

[@johnzoid74]

who rocked a 4s? also references to the iPhone 4 being first Apple device w/ selfie cam were to iPhone 4 lineup in general, not 4s

[@xelsg]

I have an iPhone 5C and an SE

[@Jesse88789]

I used a 4s from 2016 until 2018 Used a iPhone 5 for a bit

[@Pr0to_B0i]

Still using mine to this day

[@sesukun2064]

I have one that I still use to this day, not as my primary phone of course, but still.

[@riotac432]

My friend's still using the iPhone 4S as a daily driver no idea why but it's fun to see the reactions in public

[@davionelliot]

It’s unbelievable how ridiculously small those are phones are now compared to the newer ones that now have a 6 inch display or higher

[@srinivaschilakala216]

6.7 😭

[@wheelotime2581]

It's even better on ios 6, can play so many childhood games

[@johnzoid74]

yes I’ll make follow up on that ❤️

[@JMoss_8374]

It’s better iOS 5

[@ophtalmology]

@@JMoss_8374but it’s impossible to downgrade iPhone 4s to iOS 5, unlike to iOS 6. And it’s almost impossible to get an iPhone 4s still running ios 5. I got mine with ios 9 for around 15$ locked to at&t and seems like it almost wasn’t used - perfect condition for a device which is over 12 yo, even battery is still very good. Unlocked it, downgraded to ios 6 and it is really insane.

[@nthchannel8017]

Yeah, but it’s very difficult to downgrade to iOS 5, but iOS 6 is much easier

[@ChristopherDoesStuff2]

Not anymore

[@Appreciation-Community]

4s was such a good feeling phone in your hand. The weight, the raised edge around the whole thing, the tactile button and that mute switch

[@BAAAAAAAAAAA]

5:27 Lol I love how casually he brings this up

[@johnzoid74]

got me having flashbacks 💀

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

The technology in 2011s is truly nostalgic, I feel it as I lived in the future and came back to the past now.

[@Gamerboy_fps]

1:06 using an earring to open the sim slot is quite relatable.

[@jaivanttitus]

Smashit brings so much nostalgia... It still runs on my iPad Air 1 2013 flawlessly ❤

[@bubgamingandvlogs3870]

read as sma shit

[@RunfisherRS]

0:28 The iPhone 4 from 2010 was the first iPhone with a selfie camera.

[@johnzoid74]

I’m referencing 4 series in general.

[@RIVAS1128]

​@@johnzoid74 that doesn't make sense. The iPhone 4 series refers to all the variants it came in (storage, color, carrier) not two different generations

[@johnzoid74]

@@RIVAS1128 iPhone 4 introduced the selfie camera. I thought it made sense. Most people aren’t going to go into deep granular technical spec based on model number/ color etc.

[@SonOfABith]

@@RIVAS1128are you stupid? The 4 and 4s are literally the same. Only difference is ram increase. It’s not that deep. They’re the same phone.

[@Frankfurter420]

i've been using an iphone 4 for SMS and its surprisingly functional, i can call/text and i can even use the personal hotspot to run my other devices. i can actually scroll twitter or use imessage reliably. super impressed with the old iphones tbh

[@JukoMC]

When I realize that a 12 year old phone has a better camera than my phone 😐

[@gunman4872]

For those wondering what it's like playing GD full version on an iPhone 4. It won't update to the latest version but rather it'll update to 2.0. It's pretty buggy from experience but it was nice to revisit one of the golden ages of the games

[@SAGUI_KILLER]

People from Brazil, buy brand-new iPhones from the USA, and people from the USA, buy old iPhones from Brazil. Kinda funny!

[@oneminutewonder77]

In countries that still allow the device to be activated, I’m sure you can still make a phone call with it. Most of the western countries no longer allow phones which don’t support VOLTE to be activated on their network.

[@randomchannel9331]

T-Mobile and it's MVNOs still offer 2G/EDGE networking which the 4s supports. So you still can activate them if said MVNO doesn't have a device whitelist. EDIT: Buuut I forgot to mention they are planning on shutting it down in April 2024

[@char_ytt]

Anywhere other than America supports 2G until 2030

[@michaelball93]

Hah, I was born in 1993 and still keep assuming that most of the people I watch on KZbin are older than me for some reason. Finding out that some of the people I follow are actually a few years younger than me was a pretty mind-bending revelation.

[@hamiltonseggsgaming69]

Most of the people in the comment section were born in 2005

[@michaelball93]

@@hamiltonseggsgaming69 I honestly had no idea that people born in 2005 still used KZbin. I thought they'd abandoned it for TikTok years ago.

[@joel2734]

same but I was born in 2009

[@Geomrtrydasher]

aight bro u forgot to blur the number on 2:56

[@Mais1Felix]

I'm from Brazil and I hope you enjoyed our food and soft drinks. You will always be welcome here. great video. I miss my iPhone 4s in 2014 😊

[@yaminederradji9073]

My ipad not old enough but can go to roblox 😊

[@HenryWillams-ed4of]

Summary, it's very much usable, I still use a 2G, iOS 3 has abundant amount of apps, so I can only imagine how much app support iOS 9 has.

[@AnthonyPompa]

There's not many 8+ minutes videos I choose to watch. However, this one, I did. Good stuff. :)

[@johnzoid74]

Thanks for watching, Anthony! 😎

[@ReachEdits]

Hey dude! I am from Santa Catarina, most especificaly from Floripa! This video is so amazing, and Pureza is the best guaraná!

[@johnzoid74]

that’s so amazing! I looooove Pureza 😍

[@Quiqui64]

3:03 i think you messed up with the number showing.

[@johnzoid74]

I just typed 9 random digits haha

[@Quiqui64]

oh my bad 😅@@johnzoid74

[@6891s]

man i used to use my 4s all the time when i was a kid, at the time i mostly play racing game on it and sometimes use youtube on it but now my 4s doesn’t have a battery (because i have to get rid of it after it have been puff up for more than 4 years sitting in the shelf) and before that the back plate was completely cracked but it got replaced and i was gonna ask the repair shop to replace the battery too but they don’t have it in stocks and now it mainly just a prop that sitting in my backpack with my other 2 iphone 4 waiting to get a battery replacement someday, seeing you using the 4s make me want to use mine even more

[@manolosicilia3512]

In 2016 my ex-girlfriend still had it (since 2014) and it was already failing her a lot and she became jealous of how good the Moto G was in 2014 (which i changed in 2016) so we both bought the Moto G4 and the truth is that she loved the change. Definitely better screen and performance. But I must say that that cell phone was very beautiful.

[@HearMeOut-bi6ui]

If you're in an area with no more 3g cell towers. Have you tried switching the "preffered network" to 2g?

[@nukfauxsho]

You can hotswap sim cards with the phone on. No issues.

[@johnzoid74]

I do it a lot! sometimes I need to restart tho.

[@GolfWangMedia-incorporated]

The UK allows use of 2G, 3G, 4G and of course 5G networks. I think we’re set to decommission 3G soon. However, I’ve not heard plans to decommission 2G, so maybe they are keeping it alive to support legacy devices

[@staticziao]

i think all providers in the UK except 02 is shutting down 3G in 2024 and 02 is shutting down 3G in 2025

[@SanitizedPG]

4:06 skip here to avoid 4 minutes of constant yapping

[@Fourtune1]

Thanks

[@SanitizedPG]

@@Fourtune1 Im just happy to help

[@thepopmanbrad]

i remember using an iphone 2gs when my friends all had 5s and i slowly upgraded to a 3gs while everyone was on 6s and i missed out on so many apps cause the phone couldnt even run the damn things which sucked sooooooo much cause of the fact everyone got to experience stuff like snapchat and flappy birds etc and i was sitting here with old apps that barely ran

[@cubah1]

I downgraded my 4s to iOS 6 because I made it an iPod basically, so for music iOS 6 runs so much better. The iPod always remembers you play position, never just randomly forgets you were in a playlist. It’s connected to the car and the goal is to get all the songs to play, but something always happens like pressing one of the on screen buttons on the cars screen. iPod is always on the glove box

[@Jvwny]

I got my hands on a brand new 4S and I’m still trying to figure out how to add music on it to use it as an iPod.

[@234trhbgfdert]

@@Jvwny iTunes

[@RiandelPlayzRB]

8:01 I have GD lite too and other GD spinoffs the full version and gdps editor

[@johnzoid74]

good enough for me too. I watch some people on KZbin and it’s incredible how good they are.. 😂

[@RiandelPlayzRB]

​@@johnzoid74true

[@wannakms]

3g is shutting down soon in poland, but 2g is gonna stay with us until 2028 from what ive read a while back

[@johnzoid74]

I think same happening for Brazil. Already gone in USA for 2g/ 3g 🥹

[@Canalcanalhadomedo]

I from Brasil and i love your video, iphone 4 is vert popular here and this video took a lot of nostalgia

[@mikaelastefkova]

I never even owned iPhone and yet this feels nostalgic 🙈

[@Tree_Commenter_Real]

Same

[@Cozumii]

Older Androids had these apps too

[@mikaelastefkova]

​@@Cozumii But even the interference and everything haha

[@UnderscoreAngel]

to use an iPhone 4s and get it's max potential you can jailbreak it and downgrade it to iOS 6, because iOS 9 is too modern for the little chip of the phone, it runs like hot trash, people have made so much work arounds in iOS 6 you can even run Discord in it, and it would still work the same :o)

[@aquarsene1747]

Wait even Discord? That's actually super intriguing

[@Inquestor420]

I downgraded mine to iOS 8 it supports all the iOS 6 games and the games that i could not install on iOS 6 on discord works as well with a tweak

[@senhorcrystal4610]

about brazil we are only using 4G and 5G cell towers but they are powerfull enough to also transmit 3G and 2G so we basically have all the signals/network types even dont supporting them anymore

[@melissahealy1950]

we still got 3G here in nz (and one network still has 2G) until the end of next year

[@starting5524]

I remember having a 4s. It was my favorite iPhone.

[@KK2229]

I really miss iPhone 4 haha. I remember I used to spent countless hours playing Minecraft on that phone until I upgraded to 6. I think I still have one at my house, but the battery dried out and the power button somehow stuck. I bet it will work (as a gaming device) again if it's fixed and downgraded to maybe iOS 6 or 7.

[@NhojisJohn]

man i wanna know if i can use this in the US. i’m so tired of phone payment plans and im a nostalgia junkie

[@johnzoid74]

woah just saw this- so I’ve contacted Mint mobile and they’re sending me a SIM card to test. I THINK it may work but unsure - even if it does it will only be for a few months as USA is dropping 2g support. But the phone itself for the fun works here

[@marcospauloferreira1772]

1-Here in Brazil, we have started to upgrade to ESIM it’s slowly happening In America almost everyone uses ESIM or I misunderstood you? 2- Besides 3G is still up most people use 4G and most cities cover 4G 3- Tell your friend to not worry he won't catch Monkey Poke and turn on a monkey if he comes to Brazil😂

[@johnzoid74]

Hey yes it’s slowly happening in the USA with ESIM- ie, iphone 15 are only esim. When I said they aren’t using sim in USA I meant to say the size in the video specifically Fun fact- my friend was giving me a hard time.. I was actually bitten by a monkey 😂 I feed them on a hike.. had to get rabies vaccine to be safe !

[@LifesHourglass]

almost forgot about smash hit, until now... thanks man!!! ur the homie we all need rn. make it your game phone!

[@frankieepurr]

Tbh at least on the newer versions of app store apple should hide incompatible apps and at least say their minimum ios on the error, sometimes it just says not compatible

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

I still have an iPhone 4S that uses iOS 6, but sadly from what I can tell, due to 3G networks shutting down in the US, using it as a phone isn’t exactly possible anymore… which is BIZZARE because you managed to place a call and text with yours so I’m a bit stunned.

[@johnzoid74]

woah I saw this come through 40 seconds ago 😂 so, I’m actually recording the video in Brazil. I mentioned it in the video and I think you missed. They are still on 2G 3G for now still. I tried the call here in USA and it does not work

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

@@johnzoid74 oooooooooh that explains it, my bad XD

[@HearMeOut-bi6ui]

Have you checked if it had an option to change the preferred network for cals and text?

[@XLGaming]

@@HearMeOut-bi6ui all iPhones have a setting to select networks (unless carriers disable the setting), but anything before the 5s will not work on modern networks. the iPhone 5 and earlier physically do not support VoLTE for calling on the 4G network. The iPhone 4 and 4s don't even support LTE at all!

[@HearMeOut-bi6ui]

@@XLGaming yeah. I meant to set the preferred network to and route it to 2g to still make calls. But yes other than calls its pretty much borderline useless

[@djlucasd]

I love Time Surfer, it's like Tiny Wings

[@shadyops3535]

I’m in Bulgaria and I can get everything from EDGE to 5G north of 700Mbps on the same SIM.

[@happyswiftie6075]

that selfie video with your 30yo style made you look so 2008

[@johnzoid74]

this made me lol 😂 ok that button up is clean tho..

[@jjetta1170]

I rocked a 4s and I played Minecraft on it and it was running it on iOS 9.3.5

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

Yes and no. It's no longer supported by Apple for software updates so it might not be able to run the latest apps or efficiently handle newer features introduced in recent years. But it still function for basic tasks like calls, texts and light browsing

[@dimitrisioannou3218]

Here in Greece we don’t support 3G but in the area I live I can get 3G network from Albania

[@YarikTrUa]

9:06 помню играл на уроках в колледже, только у меня тогда был samsung galaxy y.

[@bokexd3173]

I live in Bosnia and Hertzegovina, Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka area (not the territory), and we can still use anything that takes mini sim on the main carrier called M:TEL

[@Nafiur13]

My friend still uses an IPhone SE

[@appletech7272]

Please do more older iPhone videos I love it. 😊

[@AnisTheLxgend]

Bro even my iPhone 3gs still runs some games, it doesnt work like it used to back then but I keep it as a collector's item as it might be rare, my dad bought it when it came out.

[@caraphern]

3:00 you forgot to blur out the number..

[@luanataide7164]

Dude was staying in Floripa and just decided to do an old ass phone review. Legend.

[@johnzoid74]

haha this made me LOL. bruv I love Floripa. Gonna move there someday and keep reviewing old phones.

[@campbelljohnson1547]

Can and did when my S10 broke. Played games, made calls, played music, took photos. did everything my modern phone could do except my banking app.

[@YinNYang_Official]

At some point, I personally feel like when iPhone hits 20, instead of different specs and sizes, They set a standard spec, and drop it in the different iPhone bodies of the past. “Modern in performance, Nostalgic at heart. The new iPhone that acts brand new but feels like home. Get comfortable with the new iPhone N, dive into your Nostalgia”

[@isaacsac5]

The iPhone 4 was actually the first iPhone to use a selfie camera.

[@alessio54321]

We still have 3g towers here in canada. Im actually visting my family in brazil also at the moment, they have all sorts of cool phones here.

[@alessio54321]

I never had the iphone 4s but i had the ipod touch 4 and 5.

[@Doxxy0]

hungary is using repuposed 3g towers for 5g in some cities and thats really clear on speedtests i never seen all those hundreds of mbs/mbits not even on 4g like many other countries

[@krisd1000]

8:40 i had the same problem with my 4s running ios 9 and trying to use jet pack, the way i got it working was jail breaking the iphone and after that jet pack launched. weird right?

[@luklaair]

Bro I'm using a a Huawei budget tablet from 2017 and its running good

[@AhmadMylad]

4:58 Tiny Wings by Andreas illiger

[@GuillermoCaetano]

Wow, Gesiel mentioned, esse é um cabra arretado

[@GuillermoCaetano]

Translation: Gesiel mentioned, he is a real one

[@xvo_cx]

My country (Portugal) still uses 2g and 3g networks and by 2024 they will shutdown 3g but I think 2g will stay because they didn't mention anything about 2g.

[@skibidieditorz0]

You censored the call’s phone number but not the message phone number

[@johnzoid74]

the txt number was a combination of random numbers haha

[@RealFreedumbanimates]

“PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!! NOW!!!!” -mephone 4s from inanimate insanity

[@johnzoid74]

-ArNoLds SWARtzebegga!!!!!

[@RealFreedumbanimates]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5_IhaV_i56smbMsi=jGNyU4AvfrHozzAx

[@1kayo]

"Me pressing on the video just because there is geometry dash icon on the thumbnail "

[@ceomg]

How did you get it to turn on? Mine is stuck at the startup apple logo

[@afan64]

Do you have important data on it? If no, put it in DFU mode and reset it using iTunes.

[@tomfooIeryz]

can you make a video on the iphone 5 and 6? the 6s can update to ios 15.8 which is crazy

[@SmilySmilySmily32]

Can you do " using a samsung galaxy s2 in 2023?

[@piratebear3126]

Smash Hit is what got me to click, absolute classic game. Same guy did a game called Pin Out that was a runner style game where you make your way up a really long pinball table. Both great phone time wasters, and they work on modern iOS.

[@syaifulfauziahfaiq59]

hey zoid i have question

[@thengspjo4716]

You have to ask the quedtion

[@Luiszoom21593]

The 4S was the first iPhone I bought back in 2013 and I ended up jailbreaking it.

[@hakeemhisham]

theres this one cute fish game where you eat like penguins or birds flying while in the water. you can drag and jump high and kill those things. i used to loved that game. forgot the name of the game. oh and i really liked ninjump series. omg omg

[@spiritualastralsoul]

Tiny Wings is great, and old game but still works even on the iPhone 14/15 Just got recently updated too, which is great.

[@NickDrinksWater]

if its just used for calling and text, id assume it would work fine other than battery

[@EvaCheats]

My arrived today! Bought it on eBay, so happy on iOS 6.

[@mason_nb]

just before watching this video i got my pb in smash hit lmao, finally passed all of the checkpoints and made it into endless mode

[@lavaentertainmentz7870]

I'm literally using this as a spare since I have 2 sim cards. I got my hands on one of them for $83!

[@johnzoid74]

that’s so cool- are you in the USA?

[@lavaentertainmentz7870]

@@johnzoid74 nah, I'm over in the pacifics

[@fililopez8134]

in 7th grade this kid offered to trade me my android whatever for a iphone 4s. I was stoked and stupidly said yes later that day when I got home I unfortunately found out that I couldn’t even download any games or even snapchat which everybody was using to talk to one another so in short I learned a very valuable lesson that day.

[@KJ5JHV]

Bouta rock a 4s tomorrow

[@ipedrax1951]

bruhhh what city are you at? I live in Santa Catarina

[@johnzoid74]

no way! I’m back home now but we were in Palhoca.. sad to be back in USA 🥹

[@ipedrax1951]

@@johnzoid74 no way, hope ya liked there. I live just 1 hour from palhoça

[@johnzoid74]

@@ipedrax1951 I LOOOOOVE Brazil, and Santa Catarina. I would love to live there a month a year. What is your city called? We spent time in Balneário as well.

[@Azno43]

iPhone 4s was my first iPhone

[@KillerThriller-sf8qd]

I still remember when this was 1 day ago.

[@Ethanbumhole]

Him in like 40 years: can you use an iphone 15 in 2064?

[@priyajessy]

Which mobile or cam do you use for filming?

[@234trhbgfdert]

3:20 ta bonito o prato, parabens

[@joshmid747]

I am in the UK and where I live is remote so it's a mix of 3G, 4G, and 5G but it is dependent on the network

[@GuillermoCaetano]

I always wonder if this older phones are secure enough to have installed in them bank apps

[@yanszillagy5324]

bro what town are you staying?

[@H8RSAPPRECIATE]

Yo paper toss was the shit. I loved that game and it too a bit of skill to play it

[@johnzoid74]

straight fire 🔥.. although I can only fail like 12 rounds until I lose it and have to close the game out 😂

[@H8RSAPPRECIATE]

@johnzoid74 🤣🤣🤣 just like call of duty

[@theotherdashmelted]

why did this come out 3 days before 2.2 with gd in the thumbnail

[@demurius]

2010s nostalgia was is good time for mobile games

[@vitoriacarlosso]

ooooh shit Brazil mentioned :D

[@FliporSpin]

@10:10 “it’s not lightning speed” I mean.. it does use the 30 pin connector

[@rubenseromenho]

He acted like he was old being born in 1994.. I FELT OLD 🤣🤣

[@johnzoid74]

haha hey now 😂 feeling old is relative tho right?!

[@FlintG]

I had a iPhone 4 not the 4s the 4 as my first iPhone and that was really fun. I so wished I kept it on ios 6 though. I still have the box for it too, I used to jailbreak it so much too, even using the slide to unlock for the lightsaber sounds was cool. Its still jailbroken right now on the ios 7.1.2 which I even installed a tweak that can even roll back to ios 6 lol.

[@johnzoid74]

That sounds wildly cool. I’m a novice for jailbreaking.. I need to learn and become good at it. So much fun. Light saber unlock 😂 so sweet

[@FlintG]

@@johnzoid74 I also had the swipe animations where the icons did a swirl thing which was very cool and had custom themes too. You can do a lot with it jail broken.

[@ophtalmology]

I’m wondering, which tweak are you talking about? Do you have shsh blobs? Or you mean Pluvia?

[@Janek_K]

How did you install the apps?