Apple recently revealed that it throttles the performance of older iPhones with degraded batteries in order to prevent potential operational troubles like random shutdowns. Find out more about modern battery technology and how you can avoid unwanted performance hits in this video.
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The title alone is misleading. “Why Apple is slowing down iPhones with depleated batteries” is a better title.
"I used to take my iPhone7 into the sauna at the gym, and it would sometimes overheat"...
Even those working at AI are sometimes are a few cards short of a full deck. Many gyms, mine included have very restrictive policies about carrying phones around in the locker room areas. If I saw someone at my gym with a phone in the sauna, not only would I shake my head in amazement that they would even do that, but I'd tell that clown to take it outside to an established zone and/or report them to management.
Stop defending deception and fraud.
NO phone battery is should be degraded enough after only one year to slow down the phone. Apple (Phil Shiller usually) touts performance at EVERY introduction...its 40% faster...80% quicker...etc...etc...etc. They don't tell you "oh it's only for 1 year, then we slow the damn thing down because it can't perform longer than that". If iOS and iPhones can't last longer than one year, there's something wrong with Apple's designs. Actually, perhaps it's the "design" obsession that is the culprit. Thin thin thin thin. Doesn't matter if it doesn't work, just make it thin. Don't make the battery itself useful. And let's slow it down after a year and call it "normal".
I'd like a $1,000 phone to last at least 3-years. If Apple's can't do that then I be replacing my iPhone 7+ with something else.