Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life

Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by invisiblea on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:23PM (#15981403)

Had the battery in my iPhone SE replaced about an hour ago to test this out

Geekbench 4 benchmark before https://twitter.com/invisiblea/status/943439761066397696

And after https://twitter.com/invisiblea/status/943891561661812736

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by lukewrites on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:52PM (#15981660)

Did you have it replaced at an Apple Store or by a third party? I'm deciding between the two – my gut is to go with the Apple Store, but the apple website makes it sound like it could take up to 5 days, which is too long.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by invisiblea on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:58PM (#15981723)

I'm based in London, so dropped it off with https://www.ismash.com/ in St Pancras. Was done in half an hour and cost £40. Can't vouch for the quality of the battery yet, but they are a pretty big chain now so I'm assuming it won't be awful.

However I've had batteries replaced (different phones) at the Apple Store before and it took about an hour.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by bluetidepro on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:31PM (#15981471)

What app or site are you using to test that?

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by unreal37 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:37PM (#15981526)

Geekbench https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/geekbench-4/id1130770356

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by dhimes on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:31PM (#15982011)

And what battery did you (GP) replace the original with?

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by frogpelt on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:36PM (#15981522)

It looks like Geekbench 4.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by invisiblea on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:59PM (#15981725)

It's Geekbench 4

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