Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life

Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by LeoJiWoo on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:02PM (#15981152)

Not a good implementation, this feature should be been far more explicitly stated in some sort of alert rather than buried.

This is something that is burning the good will towards apple. Something that is in shorter supply since the days of Steve Jobs. You can see the polarization about it on social media.

Again whether the feature was good/bad, there is clearly something to be learned from the shitstorm that it is causing. Something I hope Tim Cook learns quickly.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by the_gastropod on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:00PM (#15981739)

I'm not sure what the right move is here. Apple does have a notification once the battery reaches some threshold of "bad". But maybe it's too conservative? Clearly, notifying an iPhone customer that their battery is going bad when they're throttling CPU by 1% is too aggressive. 75% is too late. Where the right number lies, I don't know.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by nwndarkness on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:42PM (#15983547)

I ran the benchmark and my phone is affected (showed 1650 and 3000 when it the average for my phone is 2400 and 4000). I went into the battery menu people are saying that this notification shows up and there is nothing there about my battery needing to be replaced or serviced.

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