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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by compiler-guy on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:19PM (#15981909)
The batteries handle the load just fine until they start wearing out around 500 cycles.
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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by JustSomeNobody on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:10PM (#15982785)
How are people getting to 500 cycles in one year?
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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by xenadu02 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:27PM (#15983444)
It isn't purely about cycle count. If you ever forget and leave your phone on the car dash in the summer that heat has a permanent negative effect on your battery.
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