I think the proper term is Apple Apologist. I have had an Android Phone in the past, but is that a standard feature for that OS?
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iOS 11.3 Beta 2 Introduces New 'Battery Health' Feature
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I was thinking the same thing. I use a third party app to monitor battery health, usage and life cycles. I happen to find that information useful. I think they will calibrate this down to the T to prevent anymore mass hysteria of Batterygate.
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Because Apple didn't want it to be.
You're welcome.
Because 5 people cried very loud for very long time.
LOL. This is just too ridiculous to actually respond to. I feel like this person isn't even trolling, they are just demanding a response.
Even if they do not recommend turning off the throttling feature, at least give me the opportunity to decide whether I want to do this or not. I can test it myself and see the difference then decide from there. They should have done this in the first place to have prevented all this hysteria.
Apple would gain nothing by trying to trick people into not doing a warranty battery replacement if the phone needs one since it is far more likely now that anyone who even thinks their iPhone is running slower will assume their phone is being artificially throttled by the OS.
The iPad's battery is large enough that it takes longer for it to start to manifest the insufficient peak power delivery that caused the iPhones to shutdown. So the need to throttle the performance to keep within the battery's degraded performance envelope is lower.
Which of course was the reason why Apple instituted the throttling in the first place - you're less likely to replace a phone that is a bit slower but still works compared to one that appears to just randomly shuts down from time to time.
I imagine they will add a "battery health" pull-down to their valuations.
The iPhone 8 family and iPhone X family are far too new to have reached the number of recharge cycles that would trigger the peak power failure. I expect a future iOS update will add throttling to them, as well, though now the user will be able to override that and risk shutdowns.
You are right, but sadly not everyone cares or is informed well enough to know what is happening and why it is happening regardless of what Apple does.
Well if they had not done it, more and more iPhones would just have randomly shut themselves off when the batteries could no longer provide peak power and eventually that would have generated it's own hysteria.
Apple was damned if they did or damned if they did not.
The X will get the feature once Apple initiates planned obsolescence on it in September.
From discussions I have heard and read, it appears to be around the 80% Maximum Capacity mark or if the device experienced a shutdown due to the inability to provide the Peak Performance voltage necessary.
You seem pretty sure about your statement. Do you work for Apple perhaps?
A phone that shuts down, randomly, clearly indicates a problem, so you get it checked for a Battery issue or other logic board problems.
A phone that somehow gets slower, jut because, without any indication why, is "telling" you that can't "keep up" with the newest apps that you just downloaded or with newer iOS versions, so, you just assume that you're going to need a new phone.
In some people's eyes, asking a deliberately confrontational question which you know nobody on here actually knows the answer to might be considered A-grade trolling.
The inclusion of this is an absolute failure.
I don't care how many of you think this is an appropriate feature. It is not.
I don't care how many of you think this is an appropriate feature. It is not.
On degraded devices this seems very straightforward and gives very clear options for fixing the problem - if there's a notification once your device has been detected as having a degraded battery that takes you to this settings page it will pretty much be a perfect implementation.
It's unfortunate that this had to be done in the first place, but at least it is being handled appropriately now.
It's unfortunate that this had to be done in the first place, but at least it is being handled appropriately now.
It still shouldn't be a feature. Users should not be allowed anywhere near this. I'm sure Apple engineers are absolutely livid at the management-level decisions that have resulted in this.
This "feature" will be annoying. You will have to manually turn this "feature" off every time it has a shutdown.
Apple is forcing you to have degraded phone unless you continually opt-out. Need something better than this.
Apple is forcing you to have degraded phone unless you continually opt-out. Need something better than this.
Yeah, but what if disabling power management means your phone fails to boot or gets stuck in some sort of boot loop? It makes sense to have it automatically enabled when there is a failure.
Maybe if your phone is randomly turning off on a regular basis you should go get a new battery.
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Only if they had explained their intention to begin with, I'm sure some people would have understood this. I understand not fully disclosing their updates for security reasons but this one is not one of them.
Why do people have such unrealistic expectations? You buy a phone knowing (or should know, not anyone else's fault if you don't) what happens to batteries. They get older, they wear out... that's what happens! Then the one company that actually attempts to mitigate these problems by putting a crash-prevention feature into the phone are now the ones having to pay for a problem affecting the whole industry. People who never in a million years would have noticed a difference in speed and power in their phone - other than it naturally slowing down through running older hardware with new software - are now complaining that they've been royally screwed! You haven't been!