Okay so under typical circumstances, the phone is fine. How is this a bad thing again? Besides them not being transparent about it, I see no issue.
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Okay so under typical circumstances, the phone is fine. How is this a bad thing again? Besides them not being transparent about it, I see no issue.
Well I’ll see once I’ve run my tests in 3D Mark with the battery fully charged.
See I’ve never benchmarked my phone. I don’t see the point. Never had a performance issue except for I think iOS 4 and iOS 7 beta days.
Neither do I, but it will show if you play games on your iPhone 6 through to 7 Plus then your gameplay could be affected, although others on here have said they’ve seen bad performance in other areas.
It’s the age old thing just because it’s not affecting you doesn’t mean it’s not happening and affecting others.
Again, none of these phones are being throttled UNLESS their respective batteries have been used up. So an iPhone 7 that still has a substantial battery isn't being throttled until such time the battery/power management code warrants it. They just included the new power management code to 11.2 for WHEN that happens. Seems no one is reading the technical explanation, or cant understand it, or just wants to use this as another reason to complain about Apple. I have a 6s with orig battery and its working just fine. Wife has a 6 with orig battery and when battery gets low it can slow down a bit ( but not unusable warranting/forcing a $1000 purchase as some here would allude to). But she is one who if battery is 60% she is scrambling to charge it. I don't use complete charge cycles daily either so the battery hasn't been used up just yet. I suppose that's why my 6s is still working fine.
But sure I agree Apple should have been forthcoming to let folks know that an aging battery will cause the device to slowdown giving them the option to spend the $$ on a new battery if they wanted out of box performance on older devices or spending those funds upgrading to a newer device. However I also agree that the new power management is certainly better than a device that is unstable and shutting down randomly when you think the battery still has plenty of charge. Guess I had rather have a little slower working phone than a little faster one that is unreliable and rebooting and shutting off when trying to use it.
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Well said! And Spot on.
If there is one thing this has taught me I am never ever upgrading my X or my iPad to a newer OS. Apple are too shady.
So, you do know there are other factors that can lead to battery life issues. Besides, coconut isn't needed to see whether your device battery is failed of consumed. You can go the battery menu under settings and see if your battery needs to be serviced.
Honestly I have no love loss for the "moron" geniuses you speak of, but sometimes people tend to approach technicians wanting them to confirm their suspicions instead of embracing actual solutions to their problems.. Just a thought
Slightly larger batteries would not help, the new high-end 64-bit processor cores are designed for batteries the size of an iPad Pro. No one buys mobile phones that large.
I don't actually know if what you said is true, but I find myself in complete agreement with you.
That statement is priceless. If you have to use a benchmark app to see if your device is lower than when it came out of box (on paper) do you really have an issue? I mean if you cant tell just by using it when why the uproar?
Wrong. No other major manufacturer employees these practices. And for whatever reason, slowing your device, very expensive device, down 35% without notification or clear explanation beforehand is flat out wrong.
A lot of that is due to Apple’s very intelligent power management, plus a mix of both high and low processor power cores on the A11.
It could be that this whole battery lawsuit thing was just a trick so that Apple’s competition can learn more about how to do proper battery and power management for optimal performance.
Yeap, Apple didn’t tell me they were throttling my iPhone to half it’s performance. Browsing Safari or YouTube doesn’t take a lot of power, still doesn’t take away from the phones performance being artificially strangled.
I will see what the 3D Mark scores are with the battery at 100% as that will have a direct impact on games performance..
And as I also said previously, just because you don’t have a problem doesn’t mean no one else has. I don’t live in a place where earthquakes happen, doesn’t mean I go around calling anyone who has had one a liar or being drama queens about it!!
I have a valid question and I'm not trying to be funny. So when Apple quotes at keynotes that the current iPhone gets 10 hrs LTE and 11 hrs Wifi times are they achieving these times based on this info that performance is being reduced to conserve battery? Or is this something totally separate?
No because they have only installed this software on the iPhone 6 and 6S and 7.
According to Apple that is anyway.
So apple has so much confidence in their battery's and phones that they included the throttling on phones that are a little over a year old. That is not great either.
You can say what you want, Apple hid this from the consumer. It was wrong, plain and simple. If your example is correct and you are using an original 6 and 6s with no battery issues, the shutdown was limited to the phones Apple is doing the free battery replacement on and this was designed to slow phones down to encourage people to purchase new phones.
Apparently the reduced price on battery replacement is being put into effect immediately rather than late January now.
Apple in full on damage control mode here.
Apple in full on damage control mode here.
This, plus the fact the older phones have older processors probably not optimized for the new code in the new OS's. Just a guess folks, no piling on please.
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