What potential hazard? 3g, 4, 4s, 5 etc and no hazard. At this point you’re making things up.
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Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models' [Updated]
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What potential hazard? 3g, 4, 4s, 5 etc and no hazard. At this point you’re making things up.
iOS 11 doesn’t inherently drain a battery faster. That’s ridiculous. If you are having issues, find out why. If it was a universal design flaw, everyone would have your experience. Far from it.
It's maybe a good thing when you tell people you're doing it. It still begs the question why the batteries are dying so quickly and why not replace the batteries instead of throttling the CPU. The secrecy caused more problems for Apple than they wanted.
If you pay apple to replace your battery, they will... and then you're phone won't be throttled. Yeah, they want you to pay them the $80 or whatever to have them do it, and that's kind of ********, but I haven't heard of Apple saying they won't replace the battery. I'm not sure where you're getting that Apple won't replace the batteries if you pay them to.
Guys, don't be a sheep. Too often--Apple gets a pass and this kind of attitude is the reason why we have the same damn iPhone design since iPhone 5. I am not trying to justify the lawsuit, however, if Apple is not held responsible for it, they will do a whole lot more without our consent.
Many posters have said the same thing about Apple refusing to replace batteries even though the customer is willing to pay.
That’s my only issue. Should have a push notification. There’s no other issue with what they did. But, it doesn’t matter. If you have issues you should get a diagnostic. It’s that simple
Batteries that never lose charge is not a design flaw on Apple's part... it's a fact of life. There's a trade-off between size/thickness and battery... you want to carry around a 1980's brick sized iPhone... battery might last a week and not degrade in 4 years but it wouldn't fit your pocket.
This isn’t consistent throttling. It’s only throttled at certain peaks. Even MacRumors/TechCrunch states..
“iPhones were hitting peaks of processor power that the battery was unable to power and the phones were shutting off. Apple then added power management to all iPhones at the time that would 'smooth out' those peaks by either capping the power available from the battery or by spreading power requests over several cycles.
"In other words, you're always going to be triggering this when you run a benchmark, but you definitely will not always trigger this effect when you're using your iPhone like normal.”
This doesn’t seem like nearly the same thing and they are making adjustments to phones as far back as 2013 last longer if there battery degrades past their supported battery life (500 cycles).
I don’t get the issue.
Have you been living under a rock?
Every freaking body is complaining that
A) iOS 11 makes their device slower
B) iOS 11 cuts the battery life in half
You must be joking, really. My battery and phone are perfect because they worked flawlessly on iOS 10. Now with iOS 11, everything is worse, because of course, i have the previous year model. B) iOS 11 cuts the battery life in half
1 year? Im not sure what you’re trying saying here. Apple is trying to make your phone last longer than a year? I’m lost.
Putting a battery inside a device that can’t stand its own cpu power consumption during less than a year is a huge design flaw. And on top of that, they fool customers by rejecting battery replacements, because their hardware is designed in a way that you can’t replace the batteries in a non-destructive way.
Replacing batteries simply cost to much for them, and it’s exactly what they tried to avoid by throttling their devices with this shady method.
I have iOS 11 and experience none of that. Neither do any of my family members or friends. If it was a design flaw, everyone without exception would experience it
This is a tricky issue, because the type of battery degradation that this is occurring with is t the same as standard batteries just not holding as much charge anymore.
This is happening to devices that are less than 2 years old because these degraded batteries aren’t able to provide enough voltage for a change in cpu state, causing the device to shut down.
Users who are reporting this and have taken their iPhones to get a battery repair are being rejected a repair because the battery tests Apple does still shows the battery at over 80% of its life left. Apple won’t even replace these batteries for a fee for many users.
I think it’s a reasonable expectation that any electronic device we buy should have a reasonable life expectancy of at least two operating years before such degradation affects performance. However this is not happening for affected users who are reporting having their devices throttled due to battery degradation for 1 to 2 years of ownership.
This seems like an obvious design issue. Apple should be testing and engineering their devices better than this.
But design issues creep up from time to time. What the outrage here is, is that Apple is hiding the issue from its users by having deployed a performance crippling software update and not telling anyone about the issue, or the work around. This is the problem because their hiding the fact. The lack of transparency up front meant that the reason for hiding it doesn’t paint Apples excuse as really all that believable.
Throttling instead of random shut downs is a good short term work around, but it should not be a permanent solution to this issue. Apple should have been upfront, and offer battery replacement programs for those affected, instead of hiding it
You'll get it next year with iOS 12 when your iPhone X will be inexplicably slow and your charge will barely last half a day.
My 6s has the battery replaced under the quality program. Battery life under 11.2.5 is very good. But of course the final release of an iOS version is always better than the initial release.
Interesting.. if that is indeed happening, then they should be sued for not replacing the battery, not for throttling the phone so it doesn't shut down. I think it might be you who fails to comprehend the problem... there's always a trade off with what the phone can do, power/heat management, types of programs people run that max out the processor.... would you rather your phone be slower from the start so that everyone's batteries last longer? Why doesn't apple just put their A5 processors in their newest phones so that it doesn't use as much battery? or why don't they just go back to really poor screen resolutions? That will also save your battery and you can use it for the next ten years.
iOs 11 runa ok on the current iPhone models.
But for everybody else is a nightmare https://twitter.com/crapplesupport
I actually had an iPhone 6s before the recall was announced having all kinds of battery problems, but they would not replace it for me because it “tested” within the range of normal. Finally had it go out during an actual emergency brought it back to the store and told them I was leaving it there. They could replace the battery or I would happily go to Android. They replaced the battery and the phone has been fine since. I would have happily paid for it both times. One week later they announced the recall, and sure enough mine was on the list.
again, please tell me the part where im supposed to feel sorry that a bad business decision may force a company worth nearly a trillion dollars to spend a little to make good to customers they have cheated.
Where are you getting this one year stuff? There is no magic period where throttling kicks in. The closest to a magic number is 500 charging cycles and even that’s not 100 percent.
Yes, this is really unfortunate that they priced the battery replacement so high, even when they knew about these issues.
I just installed my own with an iFixit battery and my 6s is as good as new.