Those phones were all before iPhone 6 which is the first Apple phone of when the random shutdowns were starting to happen due to higher power draw from the CPU.
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Apple's Plan to Pay $500 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over 'Secretly Throttling' Older iPhones Gets Preliminary Approval
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If by this, what is meant is treating its customers as gold, then yes...Apple behaves accordingly.
Not on an iOS version that has power management.
lol.
Clearly mine is a fake from China.
September 2015: iPhone 6s releases.
November 2016: The 6s was prone to shutdown in cold weather. It was acknowledged by Apple, and they replaced it free of charge. My phone and many others were part of this "bad" batch. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/20/apple-iphone-6s-unexpected-shutdown/
November 2017: iPhone X released.
December 2017: Apple admitted to throttling devices to make them slower to conserve battery life without telling anyone. I think this is the epitome of a BAD user experience. See: https://www.newsweek.com/slow-iphone-apple-admits-sucking-speed-iphone-6s-and-iphone-7-754898
I had my 6s for a little over 2 years. If the phone was throttled, the battery would not have been my first guess of fault. Anecdotally, I remember I was pissed off at the phone not being performant with the newest iOS around the time iPhone X released. The 6s was fine with the OS prior to what iPhone X launched with. Like many others, I figured it was slow because the newest OS was more demanding, so therefore I upgraded to the iPhone X.
And don't lie... you wouldn't switch brands. There's no other brand that runs iOS.
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I usually hate going to the Apple store. And my issue wasn't really the battery. It was that the 6S was slow with the newest iOS at the time. So I upgraded my 6S to the X. The "sales pitch" was what I experienced owning my 6S around when the throttling started to happen.
Yep some of these posts read like Apple's PR.
Meh, not worth me stressing about it. If people seriously believe that throttling a model of phones is anything more than planned obsolescence then good on 'em.
The court's made it clear what REALLY happened and has penalised Apple accordingly. It's an absolute disgrace. I still love my Apple gear and will continue to buy iPhones but you're blind if you can't accept this court order...
Exactly!!!
You'll notice if your battery's shot and get it replaced (which wouldn't have disabled the throttling). However, if your phone's slow (after an update that enabled the throttling) then you'll assume the update's too demanding. Particularly if your friendly Apple salesperson is saying 'oooh yeah the tech has improved with this generation, your phone isn't capable of running this update at full speed...'
2020 and I'm still using my iPhone 6. IMO it's pretty clear that phones don't 'slow down' over time and you can keep them for aaaages as a result. Anybody who upgraded their iPhone 6 to a non-throttled phone because it 'felt much snappier' was robbed.
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"Old" is the operative word here. As the battery degrades, these issues are inevitable. With this generation iPhone, the the problems started when the battery capacity was still high and when the charge level was high too.
I dont know if yours is fake or not. With 1 billion Idevices out here, some are bound to have unsurfaced issues and act differently than the norm. That’s the exception rather than the rule.
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I traded my 6s in to get the max the year the max was introduced. I never thought me 6s slowed down, with iOS 11 or iOS 10.
I get everybody’s mileage is different.
Are you talking about current generation as in iPhone 11? First I've heard about battery problems with that.
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Apple publicly addressed the elephants in the room, so consider yourself lucky that you didn't come across these issues. The performance hit was obvious when you watched the iOS animations stutter, when you loaded large apps, and when you multi-tasked between more demanding apps.
What generation iPhone? People consider this generation starting from the iPhone X.
Obviously I am referring to the iPhone generation described in this article.
Apple throttling your phones is the opposite of planned obsolescence actually (because a slower phone is still more useable than an non-functioning one), but I guess this will always remain a very contentious matter.
Cool so I’m entitled to $50. I’ll definitely keep a eye out for an e-mail from Apple or an article on here when the matter is settled.
How do we get the money for this ? I had an iPhone 6s at the time, now I am using a 7 and I want my money too for the deliberate battery drain.
So we were told, iPhone 7 tested ok but Apple provided a free replacement battery anyway.
No it wasn't obvious as iPhone 6 battery degradation so far hasn't seen widespread reports of their batteries shutting down at a high charge level. Apple's document specifically mentions a low battery state of charge. As a result, "this" generation could have meant today's generation. Be clearer next time.
Throttling was better....Now my moms iPhone that is only few years old, shuts down instead.....never happened in the past when batteries would go below 80%, at least slowed down meant, it could continue to work for basic things....I wish Apple would make that option available to us....throttled/slow to increase usage when battery cycles fall over 500.
OK. but what would they have done if their phones - outside the warranty period - keep restarting due to brownout? that would have been a more obvious sign of "malfunction". and a lot more degradation in user experience.
people are too lazy to read nowadays.
on the other hand, a 30sec small addition to the keynote about the then-new IOS release - explaining how they help people with ageing batteries in their phone - would have save them the half billion now.
The first and last thing I ever do with these Class action solicitations is trash them. The only people who win are the scumbag trial attorneys who get a new summer home in the Hamptons and their firms get to trade in their Gulfstream to buy the new model with the people getting their blood money pittance as the suckers.
Gee, I bought my iPhone SE on 12/31/2017, I ran it with One of those versions of iOS Too.
Except when your antifreeze leaks out (battery degrades) your engine goes into “limp mode”.(throttling)