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iOS 11.3 Beta to Get Throttling Kill Switch in February as Apple Trials 'Reserve a Battery' System in Canada [Updated]
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It's big brother does though.
As for the this throttling, it's being blown out of proportions, the only thing Apple did wrong was not being transparent while they should have been, but hey, Apple has always been secretive.
30+ class action lawsuits and multiple government inquiries state otherwise. Apple is never transparent about anything, not even their iPhone X sales which are dismal to boot.
Pardon me if I'm incorrect, but I believe that Apple added the throttling in iOS 10.2.1. So in your case, the issue is iOS 11. I don't know if the upcoming update is going to help you. Major iOS releases turning iOS devices into paperweights is par for the course. Sorry pal.
Of all things to be exclusive to Canada.
You’ll be waiting a while for better battery technology. Those percentages are just estimates.
And the phone shuts off when the voltage drops too low, regardless of the estimate.
“You’re using it wrong”
You’ll be waiting a while for better battery technology. Those percentages are just estimates.
And the phone shuts off when the voltage drops too low, regardless of the estimate.
“You’re using it wrong”
And then you woulda whined because the phone didn't have whatever new feature or change because of it.
How does this have anything to do with he just said?
Why would the toggle feature not be on the 8 and X? It should be a part of the OS.
You can't generalize this. There are no new features I've wanted in all these iOS updates. I don't use any of it. The only thing that would affect me is if updated apps, or new apps, stopped supporting, or didn't support, older versions of iOS.
I'd love if Apple supported old iOS versions with just security patches. I'd still be on iOS9 right now (on my iPhone 6 Plus) if it was possible to still have it securely.
This Apple Support page that show's a "Reserve a Battery" icon does not exist. They make you talk to an Apple support person over the phone who does everything to talk you out of it. There's no easy way to get these discounted batteries. My iPhone 6 has major delays and they simply say everything's fine and say you don't need a new battery.
I think there's going to be a lot more 'pauses' before parting with your hard earned cash to buy an apple phone that has this 'feature'. It's like a 'thing' in the back of your mind wondering when it wills start.
Then there are the people who buy a new phone every year, regardless. Now that there's the 'apple screen phone' there's nothing left out there to push so why upgrade yearly.?.
This is a story that's really going to start in 1.5 years and take on new legs.
Nothing wrong with letting phones turn off unexpectedly. At least it will be obvious to users that their phones/batteries have problem instead of some half-ass measure that give false sense of security.
Went in with my wife's iPhone 6 about two weeks ago to get "on the list", haven't heard back yet.
My iPhone SE definitely is displaying battery issues as well, but I'm waiting until later in the year to get that replaced.
My iPhone SE definitely is displaying battery issues as well, but I'm waiting until later in the year to get that replaced.
Did no one at Apple use iOS7 on the iPhone 4 or iOS7-9 on the iPad 2/iPad Mini?
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Here's what I want from Apple.
1. Let me view a log of when and how much my phone is being throttled due to the voltage clipping issue.
2. Revise the power management scheme to prioritize active app usage if the voltage starts to drop below minimum acceptable levels. Stop background tasks, push messaging, dim the display, or whatever to ensure the maximum available resources are directed at what I'm working on. Throttling should be an absolute last resort.
3. Give your engineers a swift kick in the ass for allowing a device out the door that experiences random shutdowns after little more than a year and the primary solution is cutting performance by half. That is not what consumers expect. A gradual reduction in runtime between charges is fine until the battery reaches end of life, but unless the battery completely fails the phone should keep working at full performance. Surely they know the voltage output under load of a Li-ion battery that has reached the 80% capacity end of life. Design the chipset and battery capacity specifications to ensure this isn't an issue in future devices.
The "crash my phone" switch is crazy. Apple did what it had to do to alleviate a defective design decision. The phones simply draw too much power for the specified battery after some use but well before end of life. There is no way to fix it so users will just have to deal with the best solution possible and hope Apple learns a lesson from this.
1. Let me view a log of when and how much my phone is being throttled due to the voltage clipping issue.
2. Revise the power management scheme to prioritize active app usage if the voltage starts to drop below minimum acceptable levels. Stop background tasks, push messaging, dim the display, or whatever to ensure the maximum available resources are directed at what I'm working on. Throttling should be an absolute last resort.
3. Give your engineers a swift kick in the ass for allowing a device out the door that experiences random shutdowns after little more than a year and the primary solution is cutting performance by half. That is not what consumers expect. A gradual reduction in runtime between charges is fine until the battery reaches end of life, but unless the battery completely fails the phone should keep working at full performance. Surely they know the voltage output under load of a Li-ion battery that has reached the 80% capacity end of life. Design the chipset and battery capacity specifications to ensure this isn't an issue in future devices.
The "crash my phone" switch is crazy. Apple did what it had to do to alleviate a defective design decision. The phones simply draw too much power for the specified battery after some use but well before end of life. There is no way to fix it so users will just have to deal with the best solution possible and hope Apple learns a lesson from this.
Not much of a choice between a crippled phone that doesn't do what Apple advertised and can't obtain the speeds I paid for and a phone that randomly shuts down. Frankly either choice shows what how badly Apple designed the iPhone actually is.
or iPhone 4. Bricked after just 2 years of ownership due to Apple's Chinese-fingertrap method of iOS irreversible entrapments. I mean, iOS update rollouts.
For me this is not what this is about. For me it’s about battery information. Why was my phone being throttled at 18 months old with an 83% healthy battery.
I know that batteries degrade. But for Apple to tell me my battery is healthy, and to tell me that it’s not healthy enough to power my phone, is disingenuous.
So Apple are going to give people the option to have a phone that’s a little slower or one that will shutdown, I can’t wait for the people who start complaining that their phone is randomly shutting down
The only thing I think that Apple did wrong was not telling people what they were doing, I believe what they were doing is reasonable.
The only thing I think that Apple did wrong was not telling people what they were doing, I believe what they were doing is reasonable.
iPhone 4s user here. When my phone had a very old battery, well past the 500 charge cycles, it would randomly shut down before hitting 0%. It didn't really surprise me, and I'm amazed that so many people are stunned by this behavior. It's axiomatic that if something with a battery starts misbehaving, the battery is the first suspect. All this outrage over power rationing with weak batteries looks pretty silly, really, but such is the nature of consumers.
I'd be interested in knowing if people who find their phones running slowly see a difference when their phones are plugged in? Seems like if there's adequate power from the charger, the phone should work fine regardless of the battery state, though that depends on how the phones manage charging I suppose.
You clearly know nothing about battery technology. The discharge curve of lipo batteries is very well known, and easily measured. They clearly weren’t “estimates” in previous phone models, nor other manufacturers phones.
I never had my iPhone 6S turn off unexpectedly before this was enabled.
I do know get 1/3 the performance, because of it being enabled
I shouldn't have to suffer with this, so Apple should've had on/off button to begin with.
My 4s and 5 both had the shutdown problem when they hit around 30%. Both were fixed with a new battery.
False dichotomy. Should be getting neither things happening on batteries still deemed good by Apple. If either is likely to happen, tell me to get a new battery and don't tell me the one I have is still in spec.
What about the iPad? I've got an Air 2 and the thing crawls now. I can definitely tell the battery isn't lasting as long as it did in the past either. Has there been any discussion on slow down for the iPads?