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Apple Addresses Alleged Throttling of iPhones With Degraded Batteries
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Probably do and apparently it’s our job to protect our devices from stealing. Isn’t there some authority in society to protect us?
I though I heard about a thing called courts. Seems like they dont do their job.
They are throttled permanently even in a warm home on a charger.
Yea the bug is public trust in Apple. It’s about to be squished.
Congress had nothing to do with banishing net neutrality yet in fact they can possibly still save it.
This!
As it sounds, only phones 6 and higher are affected.
If this was just due to normal battery degradation, why aren’t the older phones affected?
My 6S is now slower than a normal 6, almost as slow as a 5S after only 13month.
This on top of the artificially reduced animation speeds on older devices paints a pretty disturbing picture.
This has got to get to national news if we have any hope of not being scammed and stolen. Does anybody know a good reporter?
Only then will Apple be forced to recall the faulty batteries and stop this scam in the future.
They will only be truthful when in the bright light.
Only then will Apple be forced to recall the faulty batteries and stop this scam in the future.
They will only be truthful when in the bright light.
Yeah, and that phone was pushing a 2 inch monotone display, maybe Bluetooth 1 and no wifi or GPS...
I suspect this statement reflects the way you would people to view this, rather than the reality, which imo is nothing changes.
Seriously, what a bunch of spoiled brats. Why are you not plotting with pitchforks to sue the flashlight companies when those batteries start to degrade and the light gets dimmer over time?
I would actually like to recognize the company for putting in who knows how many millions into research and programming to come up with a solution to keep our devices from simply posting off. And yet the masses that are doing no more than refreshing Twitter all night are complaining that their 4 year old phone, that was probably refurbished by some ****** insurance company after they dropped it in the toilet, is no longer able to clock speeds they never utilized before. A company implements a feature to extend the life of a device and everyone calls out "PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE!"
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I would actually like to recognize the company for putting in who knows how many millions into research and programming to come up with a solution to keep our devices from simply posting off. And yet the masses that are doing no more than refreshing Twitter all night are complaining that their 4 year old phone, that was probably refurbished by some ****** insurance company after they dropped it in the toilet, is no longer able to clock speeds they never utilized before. A company implements a feature to extend the life of a device and everyone calls out "PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE!"
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By implementing a solution to keep your older phone running longer
That bug is already squished for me, now deciding what to do with the X and my watch.
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Not sure if you're a troll or just willfully ignorant in this case. Apple is doing this to the 7, is that a four year old device?
Yes, Apple should have designed a phone that will perform close to spec a year after it was purchased. Which should take into account higher internal resistance after a year. A phone should work as advertised for only a single year (or less)..
That is good design. Bad design is covering up the fact that you either under-specified the battery, or failed to account for the aging of the battery.
Proof of that failure is that the initial ios shipping with the phone did not have this behavior.
So you appreciate that your premium SMART phone turns into a dumb phone after a year?
Please show me these reference notes.
Let that be the user’s choice to operate their phone how they want. That’s the problem here. Apple is like a nanny state. They know what’s best for you better than you do.
Nope. It's pretty clear. Battery degrades. Processor pulls power. Battery can't fully provide power at peaks. Phone shuts itself off. As a consumer, I'd be pissed if my 1-1.5 year old device is powering off. Apple provides a solution to phones powering off. Thus gaining a longer lifespan. Internet explodes.
A phone having to shut down due to its battery not being able to supply enough power at peak use is not normal. Either it’s a defective battery that needs to be replaced or there’s an issue with its design. My guess is it has it has to do something with Apple trying to fit the smallest battery possible in every new generation of phones. Needing to throttle the system to avoid a shutdown is a workaround not a feature.
They told me that due to environmental concerns, they would not be able to swap out my iPhone 7 battery (89% capacity) even though I was happy to pay. It had to be at the 80% capacity for them to do it.
The battery is shot, it can no longer run the phone at full speed.
If apple said that your new phone would run at the following speeds year 1- 100% speed, Year 2 50% speed, year 3 25% speed.
Would you buy it?
You're so off, it even hurts reading your textual diarrhea.
When a flash light dimms you replace the battery, or if its a rechargeable one you notice the lower run time.
In this case they've hidden the worn out battery by lowering the cpu frequency on purpose without notifying the customer, and on top of this, they reject battery replacements by saying "All good!", to avoid mass battery replacements or even a mass recall. This is a pure moral fraud and deserve a class action suit.
That's excusing bad design.
Would you buy a car that one year later only accelerates at 1/2 speed?
Brand new, 0-60 - 7 secs, a year later 0-60 14secs. But at least it doesn't shut down.
Talk about a low bar