Apple slows your iPhone on purpose. (1 Viewer)

[Merl]

Ain't the Net Neutrality repeal great? They can mess with your batteries now too!

WTH does this have anything to do with that? Apple has been doing this long before the Net Neutrality act was put in place. Please keep your politics to the "liberals only allowed to post" politics board.

 

[RetroMcBananaFace]

I'm not sure why the animosity. It's just a product... one of the most successful in all of history. Quality build, wildly popular and has created so many jobs and cottage industries along the way.

"insidious". lol, ridiculous.

I don't need a phone that treats me like a slack-jawed moron and forces me to use its ecosystem at every turn. It's very much the same reason I jailbreaked my Kindle Fire and installed a clean OS that wasn't full of promotional crap and force-feeding me into Amazon's store every 5 minutes.

No user-expandable memory, no headphone jack. And so on, and so on. It's engineered to take advantage of the end user at every turn, whereas the Android platform is a little more customizable and doesn't force you into doing its bidding for the sake of its own stock prices. C'mon. I shouldn't have to buy extra crap to use headphones with my damn phone. I'm not even that move in love with Android, but with Windows Phone down for the count it's easily the better alternative, for ME.

But that's just me. You're obviously welcome to your own opinion.

 

[mjcouvi]

I think the tech board should be eliminated. There's so few posts there. People post some neat stuff there sometimes but no one ever really sees it. If tech stuff were just posted on the EE instead I think it would make for a more interesting EE, and I don't think it'd pollute the board.

 

[Yeti]

I think that Android does the same thing. Ever since upgrading to Android 8.0 my Nexus 6P has been slow as hell.

 

[Galbreath34]

I dunno, I'd still be using my Note 2 if the power button hadn't died. Note 5 is still running fine. I've run out of reasons to care to root, but easiest way to fix those suspicions or realities is to install an independent version.

 

[onthurdays]

Think snopes debunked this as a conspiracy theory already. Cmon guys, vaccines work, we landed on the moon. Science

 

[SebaSaint]

Think snopes debunked this as a conspiracy theory already. Cmon guys, vaccines work, we landed on the moon. Science

Previously? Yes, but here Apple was caught red-handed and owned up to it on one of the iOS 11 updates.

 

[SebaSaint]

Apple's Response to the issue:

TL;DR - Explains the issue in detail. Will update iOS to show battery life details. Will offer iPhone 6, or later, battery replacement throughout 2018 at reduced price of $29 (originally $79).

<section class="section section-hero"> December 28, 2017

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

We&#8217;ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize. There&#8217;s been a lot of misunderstanding about this issue, so we would like to clarify and let you know about some changes we&#8217;re making.
First and foremost, we have never &#8212; and would never &#8212; do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.
How batteries age

All rechargeable batteries are consumable components that become less effective as they chemically age and their ability to hold a charge diminishes. Time and the number of times a battery has been charged are not the only factors in this chemical aging process.
Device use also affects the performance of a battery over its lifespan. For example, leaving or charging a battery in a hot environment can cause a battery to age faster. These are characteristics of battery chemistry, common to lithium-ion batteries across the industry.
A chemically aged battery also becomes less capable of delivering peak energy loads, especially in a low state of charge, which may result in a device unexpectedly shutting itself down in some situations.
To help customers learn more about iPhone&#8217;s rechargeable battery and the factors affecting its performance, we&#8217;ve posted a new support article, iPhone Battery and Performance.
It should go without saying that we think sudden, unexpected shutdowns are unacceptable. We don&#8217;t want any of our users to lose a call, miss taking a picture or have any other part of their iPhone experience interrupted if we can avoid it.
Preventing unexpected shutdowns

About a year ago in iOS 10.2.1, we delivered a software update that improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. With the update, iOS dynamically manages the maximum performance of some system components when needed to prevent a shutdown. While these changes may go unnoticed, in some cases users may experience longer launch times for apps and other reductions in performance.
Customer response to iOS 10.2.1 was positive, as it successfully reduced the occurrence of unexpected shutdowns. We recently extended the same support for iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11.2.
Of course, when a chemically aged battery is replaced with a new one, iPhone performance returns to normal when operated in standard conditions.
Recent user feedback

Over the course of this fall, we began to receive feedback from some users who were seeing slower performance in certain situations. Based on our experience, we initially thought this was due to a combination of two factors: a normal, temporary performance impact when upgrading the operating system as iPhone installs new software and updates apps, and minor bugs in the initial release which have since been fixed.
We now believe that another contributor to these user experiences is the continued chemical aging of the batteries in older iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s devices, many of which are still running on their original batteries.
Addressing customer concerns

We&#8217;ve always wanted our customers to be able to use their iPhones as long as possible. We&#8217;re proud that Apple products are known for their durability, and for holding their value longer than our competitors&#8217; devices.
To address our customers&#8217; concerns, to recognize their loyalty and to regain the trust of anyone who may have doubted Apple&#8217;s intentions, we&#8217;ve decided to take the following steps:

• Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 &#8212; from $79 to $29 &#8212; for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com.
• Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone&#8217;s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.
• As always, our team is working on ways to make the user experience even better, including improving how we manage performance and avoid unexpected shutdowns as batteries age.

At Apple, our customers&#8217; trust means everything to us. We will never stop working to earn and maintain it. We are able to do the work we love only because of your faith and support &#8212; and we will never forget that or take it for granted.


</section>

 

[Rickboy]

I&#8217;m satisfied with the response. I&#8217;d like to think they&#8217;ll learn there lesson on this but I know enough about companies in the Valley to know that they&#8217;ll screw up on something like this again. Folks in Silicon Valley genuinely thing their crap doesn&#8217;t stink.

 

[crosswatt]

I like how being eviscerated by media and blogs and message boards and fan boi's and even lawsuit efforts translates to "we've been hearing feedback from our customers".

 

[Domefan504]

I&#8217;m satisfied with the response. I&#8217;d like to think they&#8217;ll learn there lesson on this but I know enough about companies in the Valley to know that they&#8217;ll screw up on something like this again. Folks in Silicon Valley genuinely thing their crap doesn&#8217;t stink.

They should give you the new battery for free. In the auto industry it is called a recall and they are required to fix it/ replace it at no cost.

 

[Goatman Saint]

How about people like me who just put in a new battery? Don’t slow down my phone


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[Rickboy]

How about people like me who just put in a new battery? Don’t slow down my phone


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Your phone won't be slowed if you have a new battery. iOS is supposed to throttle the CPU based on battery health. Replacing the battery results in CPU throttling being turned off.

 

[Goatman Saint]

AH cool I didn’t know.
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[St.Fury]

Slight rant here.

One thing about switching to Android was that I immediately had 10x the ability to customize and have access to tweaks I use everyday that I had forgotten existed while on iOS. It does disappoint me that the Pixel got rid of the headphone jack, but it's not a dealbreaker.

While admittedly both Android and iOS borrow ideas from the other, it just becomes so annoying to live with Apple feeding you boring scraps every iteration instead of exploring every feature to add from the start. No apple, nobody GAF if you can airdrop if it isn't more easily accessible or send payments between iPhones or your damned satisfying blue messages. Yeah, security is quite important and I understand the walled garden mindset, but it comes at the price of stagnation--which i'd argue is more and more how people view Apple.

Build a damn iPhone Active. 6.2" edge to edge screen, stylus..Military grade waterproof,dust,snow,dirt,grime,fish slime, etc etc. with the ability to add homescreen widgets (yeah i know, probably never),FAST CHARGING, a battery you can't kill, keep improving a great camera, unlimited photo storage, a Siri that can access every app and perform any command or just doesn't suck so badly, 128 gb standard entry level storage at SAME PRICE as 64gb...And DON'T slow down older iterations of software.

Oh hell..I just described an Android device. Ha!

People would buy the hell out of a pie in the sky device like this. I'm sure it could eist. But it likely won't ever. And because of that reason (apple's hesitation to give you the features you need, not more fluff), more folks who want more out of their devices will easily go android.

My favorite phone to this day was my old HTC Evo 4G. The last Android OS i remember running on it was Jelly Bean. Interchangeable battery/back faceplates, good camera for the times, kickstand and speakers.

You described exactly why I switched from iPhone to android phones 6 years ago. I’ve never looked back.