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

[@algret132]

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

[@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

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

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

[@BAAAAAAAAAAA]

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

[@johnzoid74]

got me having flashbacks 💀

[@jaivanttitus]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Gamerboy_fps]

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

[@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.

[@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 😊

[@SAGUI_KILLER]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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 😍

[@AnthonyPompa]

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

[@johnzoid74]

Thanks for watching, Anthony! 😎

[@JukoMC]

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

[@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.

[@nukfauxsho]

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

[@johnzoid74]

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

[@Geomrtrydasher]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@HearMeOut-bi6ui]

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

[@mikaelastefkova]

I never even owned iPhone and yet this feels nostalgic 🙈

[@PaulBorobia1619]

Same

[@Cozumii]

Older Androids had these apps too

[@mikaelastefkova]

​@@Cozumii But even the interference and everything haha

[@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

[@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 !

[@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

[@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

[@Canalcanalhadomedo]

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

[@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.

[@shadyops3535]

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

[@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 🥹

[@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

[@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

[@YarikTrUa]

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

[@Nafiur13]

My friend still uses an IPhone SE

[@melissahealy1950]

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

[@dimitrisioannou3218]

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

[@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

[@LifesHourglass]

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

[@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.

[@jjetta1170]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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..

[@GuillermoCaetano]

Wow, Gesiel mentioned, esse é um cabra arretado

[@GuillermoCaetano]

Translation: Gesiel mentioned, he is a real one

[@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

[@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.

[@luklaair]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@NickDrinksWater]

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

[@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.

[@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”

[@EvaCheats]

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

[@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

[@Luiszoom21593]

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

[@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.

[@elisworld7420]

Apple doesn’t support it for updates now. My sister has an old phone too. You can use it for photos, security camera. It was one of the phones that had the slide to unlock. But now, we do passcodes, Face IDs, and fingerprint to unlock. The iPhone 4s also was one of the phones that had the home button with a square icon. iPhone 4s was made in October 11, 2011 same year as iPad 2. It’s cellular data had 3g network one more than the original iPhone. App icons were very different. Now, some of the apps don’t work because it’s needs new version but, it can’t. The iPhone 4s was made 4 years before my iMac came out. My dream is to have a old phone. I think hungry shark won’t work. I also think it on geometry dash and hill climb or smash hit

[@elisworld7420]

The stuff on KZbin in Spanish because it’s from another country.

[@djlucasd]

I love Time Surfer, it's like Tiny Wings

[@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

[@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?

[@tigersusyt]

I actually did at the end of 2023

[@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?

[@isaacsac5]

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

[@JustARegularNerd]

Your question about downgrading, if you want the most functionality, I'd actually downgrade to iOS 8.4.1 and jailbreak that. I actually use my 4s for Spotify and games even today.

[@johnzoid74]

thanks for the recommendation man! Have you also tried it on 6 ?

[@iosifd2409]

​@@johnzoid74 iOS 6 doesn't connect anymore with the appstore. Same story if you jailbreak it.

[@ophtalmology]

@@iosifd2409it does connect to app store on ios 6. But I didn’t jailbreak mine.

[@fudidoshi.]

I still used 3g. I live in Brazil too

[@Sweetcandies07]

I miss using iphone 4 that is the best iphone for me. Super handy ❤

[@Pr0to_B0i]

Great video! I'm watching on my 4s

[@johnzoid74]

haha so cool 😂 how extensively do you use the 4s?

[@Pr0to_B0i]

@@johnzoid74 I use it for watching KZbin mainly, but I sometimes play angry birds, or other older iOS games

[@tomfooIeryz]

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

[@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.

[@Ethanbumhole]

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

[@Azno43]

iPhone 4s was my first iPhone

[@XLGaming]

The sad part is all iPhones in the US before the iPhone 5s will no longer be usable after t-mobile shuts down 2G in 2024. the iPhone 5 supports LTE, but not VoLTE for calls. 3G is already gone here unfortunately.

[@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

[@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

[@zekion.]

geometry dash gang

[@RiandelPlayzRB]

2.2 is out now!

[@zekion.]

@@RiandelPlayzRB yessir, currently playing "how to platformer" and on room 1103 😵‍💫😵‍💫 it's torture xd

[@Ryanhatesportland]

Its so boring like all you do is use the spacebar its kinda fun but gets boring after awhile

[@zekion.]

@@Ryanhatesportland custom levels my guy

[@JizzyDogg]

Run roh

[@Dogappel]

Mine is still going great. I replaced the screen and battery. It's slow due to iOS 9 but it works.

[@notv3253]

Better on ios 6, also, the front camera is not good, but nostalgic

[@johnzoid74]

lol yeah camera super grainy 😂

[@notv3253]

@@johnzoid74 hahaha

[@6-c_muhammedhafilvaliyakat982]

im in qatar and my iphone 4 works perfectly fine after jailbreaking and dolwnloading apps and if ur wondering there are towers which support 3g

[@dartdeman2077]

Yea in England at least near me we still use 3G (and 2g as well I think)

[@GergoHU-12]

The hill climb racing is my first and my favourit game. Its soooo Nostalgic

[@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

[@AlpacaYouALunch]

I still play smash hit on my 15 pro max LOL it's a great game to play on a plane cuz you don't need internet and I honestly think it's so satisfying breaking the glass

[@johnzoid74]

jus fulll volume no headphones smash hit on the plane 😂 lol no but really helps me big time on like a high turbulence flight to help distract me

[@FliporSpin]

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

[@JaydenMaster08]

Those cameras look amazing 🙏🏻 (my opinion)

[@Nobody_256.-qj3kd]

My parents never had a 4S or any of the iPhone 4 line-up but they did have the iPhone SE 1st Gen (32GB version), but due to 10yr old me playing Chinese games at the time.., the phone got hacked and now I'm never putting any trust in Chinese companies again (now I'm 14 and that time was 2020)

[@priyajessy]

Which mobile or cam do you use for filming?

[@rushgodop8224]

Here in india 2g, 3g are still active and you can still use iphone 4s i myself used it as secondary phone till 2022

[@alexharl212]

T-Mobile in the US does still have 2g... I don't know why it doesn't work on the towers.

[@mxshki]

i played through smash hit on the iphone 4 on ios 7 and it was quite sluggish however i tried it on the iphone 5 and saw drastic changes to graphivs and could handle high quality properly

[@TheRealTydroid]

both smash hit and GD are always the best for me.