ah yes, apple slowing down their newest phone that they are still running ads for
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Consumer Rights Group in Spain Demands Apple Compensate Customers for iPhone Slowdowns Caused by iOS 14.5 and 14.6
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the main thing about all these suits is that they don't care about the consumer, you will get like 88 cents while they get %40 of all the money that they won, you get 88 cents they get 11 million
Every iteration of IOS and MACOS is slower than the previous version on the same device.
So Apple sucks because they let old devices get updates. Microsoft sucks because they don't support old devices in Win 11.
Its one or the other....
Its one or the other....
I check my background app settings daily. I have background access turned off for all apps and the battery still drains.
On that subject, I feel apps should never have the right to change settings without the user knowing. If Apple cared so much about user privacy they should not allow apps to automatically change a user setting when the app updates.
Maybe just allowing customers to roll back to the previous (and in the customer's eyes, superior for their phone) OS would solve all of this.
Fyi, lawyers get together, then name themselves really warm and fluffy names like "Consumer Protection GoodGuys", next sue companies in news for money, rinse and repeat -- while media says "but they are the Consumer Protection Goodguys, listen to them".
Waste of time (except for the Lawyers fees). I never got the battery slowdown settlement I filed for almost 2 years ago...
1.) How serious is the problem ?
2.) Do they provide ANY data to back up their claims ?
3.) If an app is built to iOS 14.4 (i.e., targets iOS 14.4), will it experience the same problem ?
2.) Do they provide ANY data to back up their claims ?
3.) If an app is built to iOS 14.4 (i.e., targets iOS 14.4), will it experience the same problem ?
iPhone 12 Pro user here, and 14.6 has been absolutely destroying my battery. Not sure, but I think the primary issue is the podcasts app. Not happy about this at all. This is not at all an issue primarily effecting older devices, despite what some are saying here.
That's definitely a concern but the article mentions it is affecting recent models like the 12, 11 and 8. An iPhone 12 should not be experiencing anything like this yet. On the other hand, people need to be realistic about how capable their older hardware will be with newer feature-packed software.
I fail to see how throttling can damage components.
that said, Apple should just introduce a throttle users can set.
- max speed (may cras.with tired battery)
- Recommended speed. (As fast as battery can handle).
- slow (long battery life, will never crash, but will never finish an operation.)
that said, Apple should just introduce a throttle users can set.
- max speed (may cras.with tired battery)
- Recommended speed. (As fast as battery can handle).
- slow (long battery life, will never crash, but will never finish an operation.)
While I can't verify this on my 12 Pro, I think this would fall under the category of unintentional bugs and not a deliberate act to slow down consumers' phones. It may just be the neutral engine working overtime for a certain period of time after updating because it has new algorithms to parse against the user's photo library. It's hard to tell when you have hardware, software and chemistry working together each with their own variances, observable and non-observable patterns, and no definitive measurable baseline for performance. One could easily make the argument that when the phone appeared to be working faster that it was not working correctly and wasn't performing background tasks that it was supposed to be performing and this update addressed that.
I try to explain exactly this to folks.
you may get new features but older your phone is, the less it’s able to support feature rich processing intensive newer software because it’s processor is fixed in time and your battery is degrading as it ages.
So in other words "your software features that I willingly consented to install is so powerful and uses the needed battery and processor power, so I deserve some free money"
the only issue is podcast app. which is a fiasco for battey/heat.
now, does apple OWE you a podcast app? did you HAVE to update?
if so, where does it end? seems like this one is out of hand.
now, does apple OWE you a podcast app? did you HAVE to update?
if so, where does it end? seems like this one is out of hand.
And perhaps this shouldn't be normal that we expect new software updates to constantly slow down our hardware? Isn't update supposed to fix issues most of all and not create them?
Exactly my experience on the 12 Pro. According to “Battery” in Settings, the worst offender is Safari. I’m not use any social media app and have Background Refresh disabled (since ever). My iPhone is hot just by browsing this web. All other apps are closed.
If I recall correctly, these performance issues made/make the iPhone 12 perform worse or around the same as the iPhone XR. It's not because of a device being old.
Frankly, no. You don’t “initiate a dialog” by sending copies of your demands letter to the media - you don’t “initiate a dialog” with someone by accusing them of things in a very public way. They did this to bring pressure on Apple. It’d be nice if they were honest about their demands. Plus, you know, start with, “what happened and why did it happen this way?”, and not, “how are you going to compensate us?”
I remember that ages ago new Mac OS X versions used to be faster than the older ones… They were good kittens.