Using this trick, the phone will also die suddenly at 30% power if the cpu draws too much power at once and the old battery cannot keep up.
The throttling is there to prevent the instant shutdown due to old batteries having a lower peak output
The throttling is there to prevent the instant shutdown due to old batteries having a lower peak output
In all seriousness, it frustrates me how much of the focus was on the bad half of the tradeoff rather than the lack of messaging. Now you have people who believe apple deliberately slowed old models for no reason other than because they're old.
Yes it would, but in a way that would have hurt the brand much more.
>Why go to the bother of only targeting specific handsets with degraded batteries with this strategy? Why return the phone to full speed when you replaced the battery?
The iOS patch wasn't all that specific, and it isn't sure it really did target degraded batteries. For all we know, they slowed down old devices without really checking the battery but merely assumed the battery was bad based on age.
But assuming that Apple messaging is true this time, and remembering Apple used to deny the throttling, we can reach the logical conclusion: According to Apple itself, Apple benefited from consumers upgrading iPhones when they could have just upgraded the battery.
My wife never did get her battery replaced - she was just happy with her phone as it was. If it randomly rebooted she wouldn’t have been happy and would have upgraded.
The feature still exists in iOS by the way, now it just tells you when it’s doing it and you can disable it if you prefer reboots. The feature kicks in when a brownout happens, that’s how its “targeted” at phones with degraded batteries.
My iPhone would die randomly whenever it would try to draw too much on an old and dying battery.
Thing was, it was slowed down already. If i was in France i would have replaced the battery sooner because i imagine it would happen a lot more frequently, and earlier on.
People are skeptical for a reason.
And no, I’m not an apple fanboy, but even with this shitty behavior, iphones get some insane lifespans with usually many owners.
It’s simple physics, nothing to do with being an iPhone or Android.
If this is some law of physics, then why did it only happen to Apple phones?
Sure, but it would be nice to be informed about it (so I can choose to get my battery replaced instead) and to be able to turn it off without changing the location to France
You are. When the phone reboots as a result of power problems, you get a notification that says:
"This iPhone has experienced an unexpected shutdown because the battery was unable to deliver the necessary peak power. Performance management has been applied to help prevent this from happening again."
Describing CPU throttling as "performance management" is perhaps a little stilted, but all the basic information is there.
> to be able to turn it off without changing the location to France
You can. It's in the Battery settings. It's not super obvious (small text link that says "Disable..." after a description of the throttling), but it's there.
On the iPhone, the one-time alert with cryptic language will just be dismissed by most users without a second thought. Doesn't matter that the capability to turn this "feature" off is buried somewhere in the settings when most people don't know about it.
Apple knows how to design good UI. If they wanted to prompt people to replace batteries, they would find a good way to do that. But they much prefer people buying new phones instead.
3 years ago. We’re well past the point where that’s a fair complaint
I think it was an unfair move from Apple at the beginning, but given your description it seems the current status is fair and the article is basically a click bait.
expect same story in 1-2 years when Apple SSD SMART keeps showing good health while drives lose/corrupt data