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iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X Batteries Less Impacted by Performance Management
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Choose to see it that way if it helps you sleep at night. But they were not trying to hide anything. They were aligning the software design with the hardware requirements as the batteries age.
Yes, they started using batteries that are too small, too thin for the longevity of today's powerful iPhones. That's where the biggest fault is, but there was nothing malicious or deceiving about their decisions.
Ultimately, the batteries just didn't live up to the needs of the users, and they are doing their best to correct for that. I commend them on that.
More likely because they used less powerful chips which required less energy to run at peak performance.
And it's tragic how consumers are demanding more and more from these devices, even if they are already far more powerful than most people need. They demand that each new generation of iPhone has something new and dramatically better. Well, when Apple tries to deliver that, yet the battery tech can't keep up, then it's suddenly Apple's fault for making a terrible design decision? And Apple is "bad" for updating the software to compensate for where the hardware fails?
Just can't keep everyone happy...
I appreciate your tongue-in-cheek comment. So many people are here just to complain so it's nice to see someone bringing humor to the thread.
Patently false. The problem is a common one since the OG iPhone.
It's interesting to me that they're still on 500 cycle batteries though. All their other products with recent refreshes moved to 1000, some years ago.
How is it a battery issue when batteries before the iPhone 6-series and batteries after the iPhone 6-series don't cause a shutdown issue for the phones they were designed for?
AKA. The chipsets require way more power than we thought when we originally engineered the phone; we throttled the processor to stop it from shutting down so much due our error.
Seems silly that the processor in even an IP6 can process, what, billions of things a second, but more advanced hardware is needed to manage the battery.
WRONG. I can assure you that my 4S was shutting down randomly even at 40%, while I have seen many 4s, 4S', 5s, shutting down randomly as well.
Does this mean the 7 and earlier were using a dumb cycle count to determine throttling rather than precise health?
Except my iPhone 5 (would shut down at 40%) and my wife's iPhone 5S (at 28%).
Edit: Oh, and my boss's iPhone 4. And my old iPhone 3GS. Not sure about the iPhone 4S, though.
Edit: Ha. I just remembered I have an iPhone 4S on my desk someone gave me to use for testing. Had the same symptoms.
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Samsung? What's wrong with Samsung phones? Is someone suing Samsung? Are they throttling their phones? Nope. It's just Apple. And just 6 and 7 models. Don't give us the "all batteries die" BS.
Source: https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/06/how-to-ios-11-3-battery-health-and-battery-throttling-disabling/
'Apple says that it will automatically re-enable performance management each time the device unexpectedly shuts down.
This feature is not a permanent toggle that you can disable once and forget about it. If you never want to be throttled, you will have to go back into the Battery Health screen and repeatedly disable it each time.'
But wait, there's more. Apple is not done screwing us, folks.
'Apple says that it will automatically re-enable performance management each time the device unexpectedly shuts down.
This feature is not a permanent toggle that you can disable once and forget about it. If you never want to be throttled, you will have to go back into the Battery Health screen and repeatedly disable it each time.'
But wait, there's more. Apple is not done screwing us, folks.
Nope, they were trying to apply a software bandaid (and a very crude one at that - throttling CPU at all times after certain number of charging cycles) to a hardware design flaw. "batteries just didn't live up to the needs of the users". Really? Blame the batteries not Apple. That's funny.
Just keep spewing out wrong information, mmmkay?
Android phones shut down all the time. I owned a Note that did this constantly. Guess what? It was the battery and only when Apple educated the market, did I realize that was my issue. Samsung wouldn't help me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...crashed-and-wont-finish-booting-up/103215106/
https://thedroidguy.com/2016/04/galaxy-note-4-keeps-shutting-issues-1058814
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How many phones were impacted of the 700M sold since iPhone 6?
Good point. So you dont always have the full performance from your brand new iPhone X. You get the performance you paid for only if the stars align and it happens not to use much power that moment.
But by any means, keep defending Apple guys. You know who you are.
Edit: just now realised, they are doing the iPhone 6 scam all over again with the X, right in front of our eyes. It's basically saying 'so what, stupid? you'll give us your money next year'.
This feature is not a permanent toggle that you can disable once and forget about it. If you never want to be throttled, you will have to go back into the Battery Health screen and repeatedly disable it each time.'
Well thats comforting
Well thats comforting
I mean it's more or less the opposite - "when the stars align" seems to be when it will have degraded performance, it's not the norm.
Or... Apple switched suppliers, changed OEM specification or whatever, and newer cells (or possibly MOSFET switches) are less effected by high ESR problems. Conjecture, on my part based on industry knowledge and many years of work as an EE in electronics design.
All of them (until iPhone 8 and X). They all have the same flaw. The Plus models seemingly fared better by virtue of having larger batteries.
Just based on the title, HOW CAN YOU KNOW, they are only 3 months old. (Oh, they know what the flaw is and fixed it and didn't tell anyone, are hiding it, etc)
Anyway, the X, 8 & 8+ will probably not see any performance hits until next year, after the $29 replacement battery deal ENDS. My 7 still running good after 13 months.
Anyway, the X, 8 & 8+ will probably not see any performance hits until next year, after the $29 replacement battery deal ENDS. My 7 still running good after 13 months.