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Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy
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My iPhone 6 (128GB) much slower with way faster battery drain after update to iOS11.
What do you mean by "independent confirmation"? Have not many posters in this thread confirmed it?
I hate to throw a wrench into this, but my ipad Air 2 runs like crap on ios 11.
Anecdotal evidence with a downloaded app of unknown accuracy...I'd be looking at tests be arstechnica or anatech to confirm this.
Yeah right and risk their image as a company that only sells flawless phones? haha. Why should they anyways, they'll just sweep it under the rug by making old phones totally useless and meanwhile earn more money when people decide to buy new models, because the old ones are obviously obsolete and cannot run new iOS properly lol. I really look forward to their response on this matter, i'm quite curious what kind of stories they'll mastermind about this weasel move.
Your post was irrelevant and obvious.
It was already covered by my two lines.
You were redundant for no practical purpose.
Don't know why this is such a surprise. You either get high quality or high profit margin but not both. Now you know why Apple's profit margin is ridiculously high.
$40 Moto E4 is also confirmation since it uses the same Amperex battery manufacture as Apple but Moto at least made it removable and user replaceable.
$40 Moto E4 is also confirmation since it uses the same Amperex battery manufacture as Apple but Moto at least made it removable and user replaceable.
Those symptoms are all from lipo battery characteristics. As they age, their total capacity drops and also their "C" rating also drops. The C rating is the amount of current they can supply without the voltage taking a dump from drawing too much current. So your cold battery can't keep the current (amperage) required to keeping the CPU fed without the voltage dropping so low it makes your iphone reboot.
So by heavily throttling the phones, Apple is able to make these "old batteries" last longer by reducing the current required in order to prevent the voltage dropping, triggering a reset.
The real question is: Is this only seen in the 6S series? Do other iphones/ipads also do this as the battery wears out? If only the 6S is doing this, then Apple underspecced the 6S batteries, meaning either for weight (higher C rated batteries weigh more and tend to be thicker another lower rated battery at the same capacity which leads us to) size, or cost issues. In other words, the battery can only meet the needs of the CPU running full throttle when new. You would spec a higher rated battery with plenty of margin in order for the battery to keep up with the power demands as it ages. (Which would either require a more expensive or thicker/heavier battery)
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Question is though - is one year really old for a battery?
It isn't IMHO
To make this simpler, let's say the 6S needs 3 amps of current to feed the CPU at full speed. (These numbers are just made up) Typically, you would want a battery that can put out at least 5-6 amps when new build a nice margin of safety. Let's say Apple decided to use only a 3 amp rated battery due to size, cost, weight concerns, as the battery wears out, it's not going to be put out the 3 amps anymore without a significant voltage drop as the battery's charge level goes down or the temp goes down etc.....
yeah, I totally get your argument. It makes sense that an old battery just dies quicker and I can even understand how they would try to save battery time by reducing processing power. What I fail to understand though is how so many people, including me, have bought a new phone a year ago and end up with not even 50% of the processing power... This can't be right! (And I even had mine replaced because of battery problems)
No, I've had quality phone batteries last nearly four years without significant loss of capacity.
Why? I just had the battery replaced between the original post and this post. Took 1.5 hours from start to finish.
Exactly, either the batteries are underspec OR Apple's supplier didn't meet the specs.
Either case, this is deceptive in my opinion as people are getting slower than iphone 6 speeds due to the throttling. As a corporation who's sole responsibility is only to the shareholders, throttling the cpu to keep the underspec batteries working in order to save millions instead of recalling all the batteries seems to be par for the course.