Maybe you should ask that of other posters here, who have literally several times the comments I do.
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Apple to Offer $29 iPhone Battery Replacements, More Battery Health Info in iOS
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Maybe you should ask that of other posters here, who have literally several times the comments I do.
For the $29 price, I am wondering about the wording "for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced".
Who determines whether the battery needs to be replaced and will Apple limit the $29 replacement to phones based on battery condition?
Who determines whether the battery needs to be replaced and will Apple limit the $29 replacement to phones based on battery condition?
Nothing like fabricating things to try and make an argument. Where did people say you need a 100% battery? In fact, otherswith year-old 7’s have already stated their devices benchmark at the highest performance level.
You have any facts to bring? Or do you want to continue making stuff up?
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Why are you responding to my post, which had nothing to do with battery health or throttling? Try and keep up.
Fixed it nowstupid auto spell ha ha, that’s on my 6S and the latest iOS 11, I find it better then androids auto spell though, I use it as an excuse to myself to get an iPhone X because it’s keyboard will be slightly bigger haha.
Yes I will still keep using the iPhone despite this battery issue, because I like them. I plan on keeping my 6S though still just in case. It doesn’t slow down for me.
I’ll have to run those checks to see what capacity my battery is at.
My 6S has just over 200 cycles, is about 15 months old and 93% health, it's throttling at times, but I don't really notice.
Thought about buying the X quite a few times, I can easily afford it but I just can't justify the high price, I'll probably buy it in SouthEast Asia soon, much cheaper there.
iPhone 4 leak definitely has a lotttt. Steve Jobs' passing has a ton. The original iPhone has a lot too.
Can't really think of other really significant things that would have a lot of replies.
Ha, this is just a beginning, I don't have the link right now but it's the one about the new Mini coming, ran for several years until the mods closed it. Edit: I was wrong It's open, or this is another one.
Here it is
11431 posts!
Wait what?! At 93% health, it's already being throttled? This is beginning to sound more like a design flaw. This whole BS sounds like a cover-up for a hardware/design issue. A brand new spanking phone degrades as fast as the battery does. Lovely.... and people buy 1k for this feature? Facepalm
The 6s was my worst phone ever. The first battery was part of the recall and the replacement was only marginally better.
Thankfully I got it with insurance at Costco and they sent me a cheque for a replacement (got the 8plus).
If it wasn’t for the fact I currently use iCloud so much I would have tried Android again.
Thankfully I got it with insurance at Costco and they sent me a cheque for a replacement (got the 8plus).
If it wasn’t for the fact I currently use iCloud so much I would have tried Android again.
Apple of course
They already handle it that way
Some members here reportedly have been turned down when asking for a battery replacement and offering to pay for it
If diagnostics say your battery is good they will not change the battery for you
Let’s hope they fine tune their diagnostics software ....
Read this link...
http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
If what you're claiming is true, how would it be possible for this guy to solve the performance issues on his 6s running iOS 11 through a simple backup, wipe, and restore? The battery had nothing to do with it. Apple's changes in the OS to prevent auto shutdowns had nothing to do with it. That seems to throw a wrench into the idea that an iPhone running slower automatically = CPU throttling by Apple.
Says the guys using his household as counter proof.... do you know how ridiculous it sounds.
On stats , the MR iOS forum is a far far far appropriate representation sample than your household .
The only facts. You says its great , I say it crap. Stick to that !
Yes, and I posted prove of that yesterday, I checked about 30 minutes ago when it was charging, speed was ~1515 MHz while it should be 1848 MHz
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Yeah, when that finally shows up your phone has been happily throttling for 5 years minimum and the battery is so worn you can be grateful the phone still boots and you make it to the alert in time ..
I’m of the opinion that my 6 remains prefectly functional for 100% of its intended uses and, as a consequence, I’d prefer to stick my upgrades into my iPad and MBP, where performance is a much larger issue. The traditional 2 year upgrade cycle hocked by device manufacturers has certainly made Apple a lot of money, but I fail to see it’s practically from a consumer standpoint. My goal when purchasing this phone was 4 solid years of use and I’ll have made that this fall, with my runtime only recently having begun to degrade. (She gets a full charge every night and whenever I’m in the car. Per the battery life app, my current wear level is low-average, running 9%-14% below capacity.) That said, I would gladly pay $29 for a battery replacement if I thought it could get another 1-2 years out of her.
I don't see any such app in the store even though it offers it as a search parameter.
That's standard procedure when you visit a genius , they ask you to do that . In certain situation it solves issues . His issues were also with battery drain and not throttling .
ehh...Apple has been pushing the annual upgrade cycle for years.
And until this discovery by third-party, Apple would have reported that there was nothing wrong with your device.
Even if your battery is worn below the 80% (which it doesn't need to for throttling to be happening), they'd have told you that the battery health has absolutely nothing to do with performance.
Very insightful comment. However, I am not so sure that Apple didn't intentionally design it this way in order to push people to upgrade their phones instead of replace the battery. They designed in either a shorter battery run time with no performance hit or a longer battery run time with a performance hit while hiding the battery upgrade option/warranty claim option which results in lots of upgrades to new phones. Sure looks like planned obsolescence to me.
Apple still sells the 6 and 7 iPhones so they are technically not older products, they are current products that Apple would only be wise to still support.
