@Undo Thanks. Flags work better than chat messages when possible, but if there's nothing to flag, there's nothing to flag.

has anyone experienced iOS 8.1 on a 4s yet? I've been recommending my dad not upgrade.

@IanC. Hi! Could you expand on why you declined my NAA flag on this? This doesn't seem to be an answer to the question IMO?

@grgarside I believe the flag had the reason in it, no? Flagging every, single off answer isn't how it's supposed to work. Users should be voting down and commenting. Mods need to be called in for big stuff.

Maybe there's hope in that answer? Maybe the user needs a little coaching? Ask them a question perhaps? To refine it? Knee-jerk "delete this" flags are not how it's supposed to work.

@IanC. Fair enough, thanks for the clarification. I saw the answer as having value as a comment (it seems to be an answer to a completely different yet related question) and commented as such but obviously couldn't convert it to a comment myself and so flagged as NAA.

@grgarside comment, give it some time. Use the down vote button to bury things that are really wrong. I'm declining more and more flags like that as of late -- there's literally a mod reason for declining flags that reads "Flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer."

See: meta.stackexchange.com/a/107218/151364

I'm not sure that answer isn't related -- seems related enough that maybe it needs some help, not moderation.

@IanC. Indeed, I saw the reason that you gave, but saw the answer as neither technically inaccurate or even wrong, just not relevant to the question, hence I brought it up here. I've seen that post on Meta.SE—guess I saw the answer as matching the sentence…

> The "not an answer" flag is for posts that are either completely unrelated to the question

I do see how the post could be related though with a bit of help.

Thanks for the clarifications

@dwightk 8.1 upgrade from 8 or from 7? On an old iPad 2, the update from 7 to 8 definitely made it a bit slower, but 8.1 has improved things to almost iOS 7-standard.

@grgarside he is still on 7. Is the iPad 2 ~the same as/close enough to the 4s?

@dwightk Pretty much the same: same A5 processor, same 512 MB RAM, and iOS 8 is the last major version of iOS for both devices.

IMO the benefits of iOS 8 (and 8.1) over 7 easily outweigh the slightly slower performance, but the difference in performance really is only marginal.

@grgarside cool. thanks. My dad uses his phone like 1x a month, but I didn't want to tell him to upgrade and then the phone become irritating to him so that he doesn't even do that.