When you say "snappier" now, do you believe your X was being throttled before the battery change?
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iPhone X Planned obsolescence done subtly!
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When you say "snappier" now, do you believe your X was being throttled before the battery change?
I don’t think so. Benchmarks were fine. Speed was fine but now it is a bit snappier.
My guess he ment to say Apple intentionally slow down (or cripple the battery life) on older models with iOS update to force/make you upgrade to latest models. I don’t believe in to it but some people think here.
I mean from what I know it’s like when Apple was slowing down iPhones intentionally without telling us until someone figured it out and it went viral lol
They should’ve been more forthcoming about the changes but then again that’s not how Apple does things.
The reason for that is because the phone stays at 100% for WAY longer than normal. I don’t have the statistics with me, but I believe someone verified using coconut battery that when an iPhone says 100% it can be anywhere from 100% all the way to 97% or even 96%. That’s why you fully charge it and wake up at 98%. If you left it at 70% it may be 65% when you wake up. In both cases you lost 5% overnight, but going to 98% makes you think it’s only 2%.
Curious, how was that done? Does that also mean that it's like that all the time and for all devices?
Anything above 90% tends to last longer than otherwise. It doesn't necessarily have to be 100%.
Coconut Battery or iMazing
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Nope. I have measured it. It’s only 100 to 99. In fact 99 to 98 lasts the least amount of time.
It's been proven using coconut battery. Try this. Charge to 100% and then use your phone non stop until you hit 99%. You'll get 20-30 minutes of screen time before it drops to 99%. Why? Because when it finally drops to 99%, it's really 96 or 97%. If you could actually get 20 minutes of screen time for every 1% then an iPhone would last a week on a single charge.
You charge your phone to any percentage more than 90% and it'd still take longer to drain the first % point than it'd for any other percentage level. It wouldn't take as much as it would from 100% to 99% though.
Also, the Coconut Battery readings are mere approximations based on the original capacity and the readings keep fluctuating. If it were so accurate the battery capacity readings would be consistently downhill and not go back up ever.
Again, I'm not saying it wouldn't take longer to drain from 100% to 99%. I'm saying it's not exactly "93.8%" like he said when he also said it was "94-94.5%" in another post.
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If the readings for this alone are so varying, how do you expect me to consider anything you say is accurate?
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That's because you charged it to 98% which causes that it acts the same way as when charge to 100%, so that it actually takes 5-6% percent actual charge loss until percentage starts dropping. You can learn that yourself by monitoring battery state with CoconutBattery or iMazing.
Are you just reading my last post or have you read posts prior to that? I know how it works and thanks for restating what I said earlier. The user I quoted believes it only happens at 100%.
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Apple would never harm battery life intentionally. There’s even some on this forum who believe Apple secretly slowed cpu’s.
When was the last time you specifically used anything other than an iPhone?