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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by theshrike79 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:46AM (#34079410)
This is mostly superstition and anecdotes with no real data to back it up.

Yes, a fresh iOS install sometimes causes some slowdown for a day or two maybe when the local-only ML models go through your local-only data and recalculate the new stuff it now knows how to do in the background.

After that it's going to be as smooth as it ever was.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by sofixa on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:04AM (#34080186)
Unless Apple unilaterally decide to throttle performance for their own reasoning: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/16/claim-for...
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by scarface74 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:15AM (#34080291)
You mean to keep the phone from shutting off when it had a degraded battery?
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by sofixa on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:29AM (#34080444)
No, to prevent serious battery degradation due to overuse from changes in iOS, allegedly. And as if that's an excuse - if that was the real issue, they could have provided it as an option.

If a new update slows down your phone on purpose, for whatever reason, and hides that from you, people understandably might avoid new updates.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by scarface74 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:28AM (#34081897)
The battery was already shutting down when the processor was being overworked as the battery degraded. This is physics. The update tried to alleviate that. Would you rather your phone shut down or slow down?
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by acdha on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:38PM (#34083773)
This part from the first paragraph is important for you to understand:

> slowed down the performance of older iPhones in order to stop them shutting down without warning

This didn’t affect someone whose phone was working perfectly. It changed it so your phone got slow instead of crashing.

The reason some people held off on updates was that a bunch of confidently wrong people went around saying this was planned obsolescence and never went back to apologize for giving false advice.

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