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Other Apple is slowing down older iPhones based on battery wear level [MERGED]
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It's still not how proofs work, no matter how many times sentiments like that are repeated or how hard someone wants for that to be the case.
Regardless of what you May believe on this one thing has been made crystal clear on this fiasco. Some of Those who upgraded iPhone 7 to 11.2 are going to have a throttled CPU and probably the iPhone X and 8 are next in ios 12.2. So for me, the smartest strategy as I have said is to never upgrade your iOS version. No home button delay, no throttling and no battery drain.
If I ever get the itch to upgrade my iPad this is the first instance that will come to my mind now that there is a possibility Apple will slow it down or impair its usage in such a way that I will feel compelled to upgrade my device. Sad to say it did work with my iPhone 7 Plus but its not going to work again.
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If I ever get the itch to upgrade my iPad this is the first instance that will come to my mind now that there is a possibility Apple will slow it down or impair its usage in such a way that I will feel compelled to upgrade my device. Sad to say it did work with my iPhone 7 Plus but its not going to work again.
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Do you deny the fact that some iPhone 7 models have been slowed down since ios 11.2 and not all of them?
If only some iPhone 7 models have been slowed down and this slowdown was deliberately coded into the system in ios 11.2 and not all of them meaning if there are 2 iPhone 7 models with 85% wear both will show up as normal on Apple’s diagnostics while one of them will be throttled and the user will not be informed and will keep scratching his head on why the iPhone suddenly slowed down . Prior to ios 11.2 ALL iPhone 7 models were running at full speed. Apple also refuses to replace the battery without paying and by the time wear gets below 80% the phone is out of warranty.
This points to only 1 conclusion no matter how many times you try to deny this.
None of that has any information as to any reasoning or potential intent behind it. There are of course conjectures and conclusions that people can draw based on what they think, but that isn't proof. Calling it proof because one really believes it or really thinks that's the case doesn't make it so.
Give me one good reason why only some iPhone 7 models have been slowed down on ios 11.2. There’s 2models with equal wear and one is slowed the other is not.
Whether I have a reason or not doesn't change that the reasons aren't actually known and can only be theorized. The mere fact that you are asking means that the information about the reasons and intent aren't known, otherwise asking the question wouldn't make sense since the actual information would be known.
I don't think you understand what I am saying here. Apple has taken money from customers when it's not their fault. Those iPhone 7 customers whose phones have been throttled will either buy a new phone or a new battery when the answer should be a free battery replacement which Apple is not doing.
I understand what you are saying, you just seem to talk about something else every time statements about "proofs" are called out.
I have already showed you the proof. That chart shows some iPhone 7 have been deliberately slowed down on iOS 11.2. Key word-deliberately.
All of that is evidence of the effect. There's nothing there that shows the reasons and/or the intent behind the cause of it. There are definitely conjectures about what can be behind it and what the intent might be.
The reasons and the intent behind it are irrelevant. When a company materially modifies the performance of a product after it has been purchased it must notify the end user it is doing so and how the user can restore the device to normal operating parameters. To make this change without informing the owner is unethical.
It's relevant to the aspect of it all that was being discussed. What you are talking is a different aspect of it (which also still goes off a conjecture as to the what's behind it all).
Not sudden. If the battery is dead of course the phone has to shut down. How should I use a phone with only 100 MHz of CPU? It takes 2 minutes to open safari and a website. If an iPhone user wants to use his iPhone longer he‘s turning on the low power mode. More useful than 100 MHz CPU.
And later when my iPhone shuts down and I’m plugging in to load, it tries to start a few times and shuts down again and then trying to start again. Normally you have to see a low battery on the black screen and it shouldn’t start too early only to shut down.
Things could be sudden, potentially similar to some of those type of issues that were affecting some iPhone 6(s) phones in the earlier days of iOS 10.
This is the utility used by Apple to slow down certain iPhones. Its called “powerd”. The skeletons keep tumbling out of the closet. We’ve struck gold with this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/_inside/status/942847979991523328
“powerd definitely has the power (haha) to reduce processor speed”
https://mobile.twitter.com/_inside/status/942847979991523328
“powerd definitely has the power (haha) to reduce processor speed”
You don’t find it convenient that the only iPhones exempt from throttling are iPhone 8 and iPhone X? You don’t find it convenient the only iPhone exempt from throttling back in 2016 and so far the only iPhone which once had an instant home button being the iPhone 7?
There is nothing wrong with iPhone 7 batteries for it to be throttled to iPhone 6s performance. Is Apple using sub par Chinese batteries in their phone so that they don’t supply the voltage to the CPU just a year later? And this too at $1000MRP? Aren’t Apple products known for longevity. I monitor my Nexus 5 CPU speed and that ancient relic is 4 years old with not throttling anywhere.
You don’t know the under power mgmt algorithms. Making assumptions again.
That “instant home button” is a thing of the past. Kiss it bye-bye.
Hardware and software designed by 1 manufacturer has its advantages but also comes with its corresponding disadvantages. The manufacturer can do whatever it wants to the product. Android OEMs couldn’t execute something like this even if they tried because it can just be undone on Android.
The knowledge of Apple slipping this under the guise of an update to iPhone 7 on 11.2 like a Trojan horse doesn’t sit well with me. But cant really say its unexpected because I never had a great experience on older Apple products. Once they become old on the latest update they perform worse than competing Androids on an older update. Its all tradeoffs everywhere. Android users should thankful they don’t receive updates like these. Better no update than a throttled phone.
The knowledge of Apple slipping this under the guise of an update to iPhone 7 on 11.2 like a Trojan horse doesn’t sit well with me. But cant really say its unexpected because I never had a great experience on older Apple products. Once they become old on the latest update they perform worse than competing Androids on an older update. Its all tradeoffs everywhere. Android users should thankful they don’t receive updates like these. Better no update than a throttled phone.
It’s interesting how some people say that anything what Apple does is right. If Apple would destroy all iPhones after a year bc of „security reasons“ would you be happy and buy a new one then?
CONSPIRACY!
or, Apple knows it's customers very well. And those customers expect a full day battery life and rarely max out the CPU. So underclocking the CPU dynamically over time so the customer can continue to enjoy more battery life is exactly Apple keeping the customer's priorities in mind.
Why aren’t customer priorities kept in mind for the iPhone X and iPhone 8? They run at max clocks currently. Don’t we deserve better battery life via underclocking too?