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Apple to Offer $29 iPhone Battery Replacements, More Battery Health Info in iOS
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Apple already debunked the Geekbench claims.Try something else.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/a...ones-with-older-batteries-are-running-slower/
I'm glad you And your household are happy. Could I suggest you spend some time in the iOS forum..... it's being perceived as the worst iOS to date.
this I definitely have to agree. iOS 11 is god awful.
Correct.
Apple took a step and implemented a software solution to the sub standard battery and CPU design which they only noticed once the warranty returns on failing, newish iphones came pouring in. The soution was to cripple the phone before it could kill its battery any further and did so without telling the user.
Im glad you are now understanding some of the issues here
Can you please explain the following?
1. Why my iphone is throttled when plugged in?
2. Why Apple diagnosed my failing battery as "fine" and refused to replace it? I was willing to pay
3. What was I supposed to do when the Apple genius told me that my iphone was so super slow because it's old and NOT because it's the battery?
4. How was I supposed to know the phone was slow because of my battery when I was told otherwise?
If you want to ignore facts and stick with your projections, then yes, we’re done.
You’re still wrong.
Couple things
1. Battery is a consumable components. So to expect it to last forever is wrong. I see no reason to ask for free battery.
2. However with that being said IPhone 6/6s battery degradation is worse than previous iPhones. My IPhone 6S plus had been draining battery at much higher rate since late last year. I would have expected that the degradation wouldn't occur that fast (14 months or so).
$29 including labor is not bad.
They didn’t debunk anything about Geekbench. They simply admitted to throttling the phone.
Have you read any of the posts in this thread? Obviously the batteries in your devices are fine, so throttling doesn’t get triggered.
Right, its much better to have the phone shutdown than to gracefully try to manage the situation.
Welp. Needless to say, I'm not wading my way through 1600+ comments. All I'll say is this is a welcome but unnecessary gesture from Apple. Good on them!
1. The iPhone still draws power from the battery and not the mains, even plugged in. Explains the throttling .
2. This is BS in my opinion. You need to be nice to a genius, the policy is BS, though they can ignore it
3. They are in the dark about this like us. To be honest, these guys are the best people at apple.
Nope. That's thermal throttling, apple does the same. See my example of iMac i7
So you understand why processor throttling would be necessary for thermal safeguards within a phone, but not throttling related to peak power/battery charge? That's kind of hilarious.
My issues are with the 6s, I shouldn't have included the 6 in my post but did so based on other peoples experience. Apologies, should have stated that.
I still stand by my statement regarding the terrible battery. When I first got the phone I used it on a snowboard trip and the app I've used for many years (Ski Tracks) to track my day kept stopping because the phone was shutting off. I figured it was the cold but my other phones fared much better and was able to track a full day in extreme cold. The 6s started acting strange when temp was around 0c and below, and thats not that cold in a Canadian winter. But admittedly post "fix" it stopped shutting off as frequently as it used to. I honestly just got used to it being that way and I realized there was a real problem when someones 5s was more fluid than my 6s.
I still have the 6s and I'm definitely replacing the battery, it will be a good gift to my phoneless mom. I should have replaced the battery before getting the 8, but wow, the 8 is amazing.
How do they know it’s the battery? Maybe it’s just another bug in the crappy OS they’re running?
That graceful management caused many users to upgrade to a newer model never realising the battery was the problem.
If my iPhone 7 suffered 1 shutdown I would go to the store and get it rectified. If Apple slows down my phone I will feel like throwing my phone against the wall every time I use it because I don’t know how to fix it and the battery shows up fine on Apple diags.
In my opinion, the biggest win for me personally is if changes are made to IOS so that I can actually see information about my battery health such as how many cycles it has logged, and what percentage of storage does it currently have. It did aggravate me when apps such as coconut battery could no longer access this information. And yes, if Apple allows me to replace a year old battery on my 6S for $29, I will be all over that!
I am not arguing with someone who calls Android crappy. It seems an exercise of frustration to me if that’s the argument being resorted to.
What facts ? Tell me the facts that point to iOS 11 being a good release ?
Let me please repeat a few questions.
Can you please explain the following?
1. Why my iphone is throttled when plugged in?
2. Why Apple diagnosed my failing battery as "fine" and refused to replace it? I was willing to pay
3. What was I supposed to do when the Apple genius told me that my iphone was so super slow because it's old and NOT because it's the battery?
4. How was I supposed to know the phone was slow because of my battery when I was told otherwise?
I would like to have your lights here please
From the very beginning of the article:
"The gist, as it always is, is that Apple is being super petty and trying to force customers to upgrade their phones by making their old phones run slower.
As always, the answer is no. It would be beyond stupid and incredibly short-sighted for Apple to do this and, if it was actually true, would likely lead to tangles of a governmental and legal nature that no company like Apple would ever want to happen.
Instead, Apple is focusing attention on smoothing out the very high and quick peaks of power draw that can cause problems with older batteries."
Now, I've noticed already that the same people that are claiming that throttling for thermal purposes is no big deal are now also trying to claim that trying to control peak power/battery charge is somehow a big deal. In reality, they're both standard approaches to dealing with physical realities (limitations of technology combined with heat, limitations of battery technology).