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Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy
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Some boneheaded engineers who green lighted this BS of throttling without notification. Even if the consumer wants the throttled performance to extend the lifetime of the battery, a popup notifying the user would be greatly appreciated.
it is really messed up what they did, yet some will defend it. I had a 6s performing at the level of a 5s before I changed my battery. I'm glad macrumors shared the reddit users info of his findings.
Holy crap. This is horrible that Apple is doing this to phones.
[doublepost=1513294384][/doublepost]Does the throttling occur in iOS 10 or just 11?
That's on iOS 10.3.something. I've been holding off iOS 11 as the phone seemed slow but I couldn't quite work out why. 
The battery fix came out with 10.2.1 so anything previous is probably fine, at the risk of your phone randomly shutting down at less than 40% battery like mine was a few months ago.
The battery fix came out with 10.2.1 so anything previous is probably fine, at the risk of your phone randomly shutting down at less than 40% battery like mine was a few months ago.
If they admit, huge class action lawsuits will commence. There are tons of people who upgraded because of their slowing the phone CPU...
Can you prove a statement such as that? And how does one know a slowdown isn’t due to a myriad of possible other causes not related to the o/s or power management?
Guess reading the thread isnt your thing? Read a few pages, proof is pretty good so far...
READ THREE POSTS UP.
Proof after a battery replacement tonight. The iPhone is transformed and now usable again!
How much more proof do you need ? And we get it. You didn’t have the issue with your phone. I have to wonder why do you waste your time in this thread. Other than for the sake of arguing.
I can confirm battery replacement drastically improves performance on iPhone 6s, 64GB.
Bought GeekBench 4 for iOS and ran the test pre and post battery upgrade.
Single Core: 1429 --> 2526
Multi Core: 2467 --> 4445
Edit: Adding screenshot of test results from GeekBench.
Bought GeekBench 4 for iOS and ran the test pre and post battery upgrade.
Single Core: 1429 --> 2526
Multi Core: 2467 --> 4445
Edit: Adding screenshot of test results from GeekBench.
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A general statement was made that I wonder how the conclusion was derived: "There are tons of people who upgraded because of their slowing the phone CPU..." seems how would one know the mindset of why anybody other than oneself upgraded? Nobody here is arguing anything. And since I'm in the target of a device that should have these issues and my battery was replaced, my device didn't (have these issues). So there are possible other things going on, imo.
Wow. A 40% difference is f’in wack. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do this to all models (6/7/8/x), but the newer phones are so computationally powerful that people don’t notice the performance difference, at least not until iOS bloat catches up with the phones performance.
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You don't even have a geekbench score as proof which is what the underlying issue is.
Forgive him. He is refusing to see the clear evidence. Apple is perfect
You got to be kidding me 500 iPhones is nothing when they sold close to 100 million in quarters 3 and 4 combined of that year. That could be attributed to just faulty or bad units when you pushing out those types of numbers. Any company would gladly take those statistics.
Funny... my work iPhone 6 was freaking terrible on iOS 11 and recently I had a new battery put in and it’s insane the difference in speed now. So this makes sense to me.
my iPhone 6 has about the same scores as your low-end. with 95%+ i get around 1100...then it drops to between 600-839/840
what a difference. what was the price to replace the battery?
I was thinking of upgrading some time late next year though.
Apple's probably hoping the issue will die down if they remain silent
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There were also many Note 7 which didn't explode. Doesn't mean a recall wasn't needed and there was no issue