Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns

Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by yreg on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:10PM (#25143886)

Before this the old iPhones used to randomly reboot when the battery wasn’t able to keep them alive. (I had such phone.)

I don’t think slowing it down is “nerfing” compared to that. I speak also as someone who used an old iPhone 6 which was slowed down this way. Btw they throttled based on battery health, not age.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by fiblye on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:59PM (#25144393)

Yeah I definitely had that experience a few times.

Using the maps on my phone in a different country where nobody spoke my language and I didn't speak theirs with 25% battery life and having it suddenly shut down wasn't the funnest moment of my life.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by xchip on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:26PM (#25144668)

You would have bought a new battery, not a new phone

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by xahrepap on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:09PM (#25152345)

When my Laptop runs low on power it pops up something like, "You're running out of power." They clearly have the technology to detect if the battery itself is going bad. Why can't my phone boot into that mode and say, "It looks like your battery's life is at X% would you like to slow your phone down to concerve power? [Yes] [Yes, always] [No, ask again when it's more dead] [No, Don't ask any more]"

You know... let the user know what's going on.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by yreg on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:17AM (#25187580)

Ofc they should have communicated it clearly, they failed in that regard.

Bad battery health (iPhone) != low on power (your laptop) btw.

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