Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
by pen2l on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:21PM
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Another anecdata:
Last night, I finally succumbed to iOS11 (the only reason I did was that I wanted to enroll in Heart Study, for which your iphone device has to be iOS11).
Indeed I had been pushing it away because I usually associate the word "upgrade" to device death when it comes to mobile devices.
But wow... it did not screw my 6S up. In fact, I think it's faster and 'zippier' with this iOS11 upgrade.
Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
by nofilter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:27PM
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iPhone 7 user here and iOS 11 also made my device much, much faster.
Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
by turtlebits on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:52PM
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My 6S+ was also literally unusable after the iOS11 update. 5 second hangs on some actions, jittery scrolling.
It improved after a few weeks. Not sure if it was an .x update that fixed it, or maybe it needed time to reindex (?) but it's fine now.
At the very least, the performance should improve if you plug in the phone, and it doesn't.
Edit: other thing I remember is that when I upgraded iOS10 at one point my battery _stopped_ being reliable. I was getting the unexpected shutdowns at <50%.
Another weird thing I had experienced: after every update, my battery percentage would be totally screwy. I'd burn from 100% -> 1% in no time, then sit at 1% for hours. Over charge cycles, it'd figure it out again, but that'd be reset every time I upgraded.
Edit 2: looks like I angered the fans. This is simply my experience. My geekbench scores were awful, so I was certainly impacted by this issue. I thought I'd done something wrong until this news came out.