Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
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Re: Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
#2Seems like a good idea.
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#3It's not only to make them run longer - they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load.
This seems like a good idea, and it appears to be well executed (ie it's not apparently based just on age or milage like a crappy car maintenance reminder), but Apple should probably have something in iOS that tells people their phone is running slow because the battery is 2 years old.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-addresses-why-people...
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#4Should be a switch in the settings. Prefer battery life or prefer performance. One more setting won't kill anyone.
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#5Dear one of the richest damn companies on the face of the earth:
MAKE . IT . EASIER . TO . REPLACE . THE . BATTERY !!!
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#6THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. I always thought I was going crazy, thinking my increasingly "old" phone seemed slow. This is really irritating and disingenuous on Apple's behalf - as said above, they should at least add a switch.
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#7I got down voted to hell trying to say this here on hacker news. On a side note, does anyone else feel as though there is a lot of astro turfing going on here?
A few commenters owe me an apology.
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#8Well, that makes me want to upgrade.
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#9THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. I always thought I was going crazy, thinking my increasingly "old" phone seemed slow. This is really irritating and disingenuous on Apple's behalf - as said above, they should at least add a switch.
The bigger effect is probably how software is developed. Most devs have a shiny new phone on their desk, we make it fast enough and then stop, therefore an older phone will appear to be slower because the app is still fast on our devices.
QA will test on a older phone but most companies don’t have tight performance targets so what used to be 60 FPS is now 45 and what used to be a 200 ms load is now 250 ms.
The difference is imperceptible during dev because each new feature shaves a few FPS and adds a few ms.
Re: Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
#10It's not only to make them run longer - they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load. This seems like a good idea, and it appears to be well executed (ie it's not apparently based just on age or milage like a crappy car maintenance reminder), but Apple should probably have something in iOS that tells people their phone is running slow beca…
It does say in iOS that your battery needs to be replaced [1]. Everyone keeps saying they never told anyone about this but they basically announced it to the press with a statement (as well as the notice in iOS) when iOS 10.2.1 was released [2].
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207453
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/apple-says-ios-10-2-1-has-...