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iPhone 6(S)/Plus Anyone’s iPhone got faster after battery replacement?
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Yes, Was getting a lot of app crashing before the update. Post update it was noticeably slower. Battery seems to have brought it back to factory spec.
Yes for my 6s, phone was extremely frustrating to use typing text would mean waiting for seconds for it to appear, apps took forever to load etc. After a new battery it was back to pre ios 11 performance and felt like brand new again.
I would have stuck with it as my main phone if I knew a simple battery replacement would restore performance.
I would have stuck with it as my main phone if I knew a simple battery replacement would restore performance.
According to CPUDasherX my 6s was running at 911 Mhz @ full charge, after replacing battery it now runs at 1848 Mhz. Does feel alot smoother and responsive now.
Did you run geek bench before having it swapped?
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Right, Geekbench had me at s 835 / m 1372 post install it was back in like with other 6 Plus.
This issue I described below back in November went away after new battery.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6s-ios-11-1-2.2089586/#post-25491700
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I had my battery changed on dec 11.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6s-ios-11-1-2.2089586/#post-25491700
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I had my battery changed on dec 11.
No, it felt the same. But I guess that’s my point, if it felt the same it was perfectly usable even if it was throttled. Since iOS 11 performance has been fairly consistent in an acceptable manner.
or it wasn't throttled, to begin with, could also be the case
Unfortunately I think some (not all) feel like a battery change is like a magic bullet that regardless of circumstances will boost performance significantly, sort of like a $29 upgrade. With that in mind, I have no doubt that some are seeking a battery change just because they can, not because they necessarily need one. That and some (not all) want to sell their phones now and use a new battery as bargaining chip.
The price of secondhand 6/6s is probably falling faster than bitcoin.
Before (314 charge cycles)
After battery change
I have an iPhone 6s still on 10.3.3
I changed the battery on my 6 using a 3rd party battery. My Geekbench scores were about half speed with the bad battery. New battery got it back to the Geekbench standards.
Performance wise (iOS 11.2.1) with the old battery was atrocious. Practically unusable. With the new battery, it's OK ... much better than when throttled, but nowhere near the performance under iOS 10.3.?
For me, it was worth it as I can now go one more year and pick up the X-S2 this fall.
NOTE - my wife's iPhone6 (bought the same day) is still on her original battery (90+% health) and exhibits no slowdown or throttling. Haven't run Geekbench on her phone, but it's very usable and quite fast. Maybe faster than mine, but that could be me setting up a story for why I need a $1300 phone. haha
Performance wise (iOS 11.2.1) with the old battery was atrocious. Practically unusable. With the new battery, it's OK ... much better than when throttled, but nowhere near the performance under iOS 10.3.?
For me, it was worth it as I can now go one more year and pick up the X-S2 this fall.
NOTE - my wife's iPhone6 (bought the same day) is still on her original battery (90+% health) and exhibits no slowdown or throttling. Haven't run Geekbench on her phone, but it's very usable and quite fast. Maybe faster than mine, but that could be me setting up a story for why I need a $1300 phone. haha
I replaced the battery in my 6S+ back in November before all this throttling news came out. I never noticed that it was slower. The only reason I replaced the battery was that it would suddenly drop from 70% down to around 17% with no usage whatsoever while I was at work and it seemed to drain the battery on my watch at the same time.
I never did any benchmarks because I never had a reason to. The slowdown news didn't break till December and my 6S+ seemed just as fast as it always did before I got the battery replaced in November.
I never did any benchmarks because I never had a reason to. The slowdown news didn't break till December and my 6S+ seemed just as fast as it always did before I got the battery replaced in November.
Well, Apple escalated the slowdown with iOS 11.2, which was released in early December.
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My 6S+ is on 11.1.2. I have a 7+ on 11.1.2 so there will be no throttling on that phone as it will be jailbroken soon as will be my 6S+.
Thank you so much everybody for your replies, that’s really good to know that the most people’s iPhone speed has drastically improved.
just remember the 6+ has only 1 gig of ram, so mileage may vary even with a new battery and iOS 11.
According to this news, throttling of slower iPhones has not been un-throttled yet. It will be after future software update. I guess just replacing the battery is not the solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/18/technology/tim-cook-iphone-battery-opt-out/index.html
The update will let you disable the slowdown if your battery has not been replaced. Replacing the battery will automatically disable the slowdown.
The 'un-throttling' (dethrottling?) - does that happen automatically if your change the battery yourself - or only if apple do it? I have a iPhone 5S that is struggling...