Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per...
by baddox on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:27PM
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I’m assuming this slowness started immediately when upgrading to the iOS version that introduced the throttling?
Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per...
by MBCook on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:53PM
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That version came out almost a year ago, but I’ve only heard the complaint about performance recently.
However the battery would’ve been deteriorating that time, and it’s starting to get quite cold here which would only make things worse. I think I remember hearing that it would randomly shut off before that so I’m totally willing to believe the battery already had small problems.
It may depend on various factors, but I know someone with an iPhone 6+ that is ridiculously slow. At times it can’t keep up with typing terribly well. Or you’ll go to open a simple app and it will take a couple of seconds.
And iPhone 6 that one of their relatives purchased on the same exact day does not exhibit this behavior. At least not to a noticeable degree.
The phone is three years old and has had a hard life. It gets discharged down to 10% pretty often.
As soon as the articles about this started to come out it fit perfectly. We’ll find out when they try and replace the battery, but I suspect this is the issue.
However this is also probably one of the worst cases. I mean if my phone was throttled 10 or 15% I’m not sure I would really notice. If things get bad and it starts being 40%+ I can see how it would be noticeable.