Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 update

Re:Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 u... by andrewmcwatters on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:51PM (#37774056)

So does anyone know if Apple intentionally code hijacks popular apps to make them perform better on their phones yet?

There are a number of specific hacks in WebKit to make big websites work well, and I would have thought by now that Apple does some sort of coalescing or trampolining for the big names in tech and most popular apps.

Microsoft did similar work for Windows in the distant past. Not sure if they still do.

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Re:Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 u... by acdha on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:02PM (#37774114)

Why would they do that when they could just reject the next app update telling the developer to optimize it?

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Re:Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 u... by andrewmcwatters on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:23PM (#37774600)

Because the App Store Review team doesn’t catch everything.

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Re:Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 u... by acdha on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:05AM (#37778089)

So the claim is that it would be easier to develop an entire binary hot-patching mechanism to apply reverse-engineered optimizations than to send an email to a colleague saying “this runs pretty hot, ask them to fix it”?

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Re:Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 u... by andrewmcwatters on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:55AM (#37780237)

Apple has conversations with popular developers, but they’re really not looking over every individual release with as much scrutiny as you think.

So yes. Also, this already happens with other software on Apple’s platforms. My question is does anyone know if they also do it with iOS native apps.

We know they do it on macOS.

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