can you use an iPhone 4s in 2023? 

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

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

Definitely don't forget to replace the battery, if you do end up repairing this. Old batteries often tend to swell-up, it's a chemical reaction that produces gas inside of the battery, and this makes the battery unstable and a fire hazzard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 😊

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

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

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.

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

My friend still uses an IPhone SE

Please do more older iPhone videos I love it. 😊

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I never even owned iPhone and yet this feels nostalgic 🙈

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

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

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😂

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

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)

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

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

Hah, I was born in 1993 and still keep assuming that most of the people I watch on RU-vid 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great video! I'm watching on my 4s

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

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

wow i love these metal balls! make a video on it :D

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

iPhone 4s was my first iPhone

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

Yes i could main it since 3G is still running where i live

I still used 3g. I live in Brazil too

3:20 ta bonito o prato, parabens

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

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

I had an Iphone 4 that made calls growing up and I still have in still in very good condition and still works😢😢😢

Which mobile or cam do you use for filming?

Brazil mentioned!!!!!

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

ooooh shit Brazil mentioned :D

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.

My first iPhone ever ❤❤ I remember being in middle school early 2010s

I got a iPhone 4s and it looked so new!

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

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

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

How did you install the apps?

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”

bro what town are you staying?

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

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

The last Steven jobs invented and the first Iphone siri back in 2011 really miss those 30 pin cable's 😌

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.

My collage tutor still uses one

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

Malaysia still use 3g but in village and certain cities only

No jailbreak I have a 4s to

tiny wings still runs perfectly on my iphone 3gs

I remember my 4s became really slow and laggy when it was updated to ios 9. You should definitely go down to ios 6

I had one of these on iOS 6 and a person I had at my house upgraded it to iOS 9 and it is terrible now 😭

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

i have this phone. ios 8.4.1 and 7.1.1 dualbooted. 16gb black chinese model (bought from china in March 2012)

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

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

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

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?

Just wondering, but is it usable in 2024 just asking

iPhone 4S was the model that killed Blackberry.

if u jailbreak the iphone 4s it can be pretty much used as a daily driver dont know if its also true on ios 6 but on ios 9 u can activate youtube and probably other social medias or other apps

And iOS 5 jailbroken you can use tube fixer to use the preinstalled version of RU-vid

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

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

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

I have two two iPhones 4s in a really good condition (I don't know how I forget about this, but one of them has a cracked back glass), just replaced the bettery in one. I would love to use the phone with a sim, but my country no longer supports 3G, only 4G, 5G and 2G, because a lot of people use dumb phones.

Dude, I have a friend just like that 😂