David Hanak In recent days, there has been a case surrounding Apple and iPhones regarding the supposed slowing down of the phone with the help of reducing the performance of the CPU and GPU. This reduction in performance occurs when the phone's battery wears below a certain level. The founder of the Geekbench server came up with the data that basically confirms this problem, and he put together an analysis of the performance of the phones according to the installed version of iOS. It turns out that since certain versions Apple has turned on this slowdown. So far, however, this has only been speculation, based on circumstantial evidence. However, everything is now confirmed, because Apple has officially commented on the whole case and confirmed everything.
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Dan Pražák Apple provided an official statement to TechCrunch, which published it last night. Loosely translated it reads as follows:
Our goal is to provide users with the best possible experience with our products. This means giving them the best possible performance and maximum possible lifespan for their equipment. Li-ion batteries lose their ability to reliably deliver sufficient current to a load in several instances – at low temperatures, at low charge levels, or at the end of their effective life. These short-term voltage dips, which can occur in the above-mentioned cases, can cause a shutdown or, in the worst case, potential damage to the device.
Last year we published a new system that solves this problem. It affected the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE. This system ensured that such fluctuations in the required amount of current did not occur if the battery was unable to provide it. In this way, we prevented the phones from being switched off unintentionally and the possible loss of data. This year we released the same system for iPhone 7 (in iOS 11.2) and we plan to continue this trend in the future.
Apple basically confirmed what had been speculated about since last week. The iOS operating system is able to recognize the state of the battery and, based on this, underclocks the processor and the graphics accelerator to reduce its maximum performance, thereby reducing their energy consumption - and thus the demands on the battery. Apple is not doing so because it would purposefully slow down users' devices in order to force them to buy a new model. The aim of this performance adjustment is to ensure that the device will work reliably even with a "dying" battery and that random restarts, shutdowns, data loss, etc. will not occur. For this reason, even users who have replaced the battery on their older phones are observing an obvious increase in the performance of their phone.
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So, in the end, it may seem that Apple is being honest and doing everything for the well-being of customers. That would be true if he informed those customers about his steps. The fact that he learns this information only at the instigation of a few articles on the Internet does not seem very credible. In this case, Apple should have come out with the truth much earlier and, for example, allowed users to monitor the health of their battery so that they could decide for themselves whether it was the right time to replace it or not. Maybe Apple's approach will change after this case, who knows...
Source: TechCrunch
What is written here is again a weakness:
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Apple has confirmed that it is slowing down older iPhones
A message from Apple:
...which can occur in the above-mentioned cases can cause a shutdown.
Where do you have it stated that Apple has confirmed that it slows down with an old battery? This is now so viral and yet no one has brought concrete evidence. We constantly talk about the feeling of a few users here…
It also has a second paragraph:
Last year we published a new system that solves this problem. It affected the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE. This system ensured that such fluctuations in the required amount of current did not occur if the battery was unable to provide it. In this way, we prevented the phones from being switched off unintentionally and the possible loss of data. This year we released the same system for iPhone 7 (in iOS 11.2) and we plan to continue this trend in the future.
So he confirmed it, it follows from that.
He brought it, so it's not about a feeling and it's not viral at all.
https://www.mobilmania.cz/geekbench-apple-cilene-zpomaluje-starsi-iphony-o-duvodu-muzeme-jen-spekulovat/a-1340528/default.aspx
well, I would rather lean towards what Stalin writes, because, on the one hand, I have several old functional pieces of iPhones 3g, 4G, and 4S among my friends, and I myself own one 4G that works full-time in the hands of my pet because it has unlimited tariff and because of that almost calluses on the ear and the iPhone, which is already 6,5 years old, not only does not turn off, but the battery still looks like it is almost new. That is, no switching off, falling and quite decent endurance. Přítula thus charges once every 4 – 2 days. In addition, I tried to find out where apple wrote it and most bloggers cite a different source and Apple will not talk to any big bloggers, let alone explain or justify something to them. In principle, Apple provides information only to selected and renovated individuals. So, for these reasons, the whole thing actually looks like a pretty well-released duck, and bloggers have something to write about and users to chat about.
Exactly, I've seen the article on all sorts of sites and everywhere it starts like "reddit user…."
Today, there is no need to verify anything, if there is Apple in the name and some "shit" on top of that, every editor knows that at least half of the users will click on it. Either because they have an apple or because they don't ;-)
For me, the statement of Apple itself and the author of Geekbench is more authoritative than Stalin. But everyone can believe what they want. It is very often washed by the father of the girl ?♂️
Try using Google, several test results were published, e.g. with GeekBench, where an iPhone with an older battery achieved about 50% of the performance of a new iPhone.
Try using Google, several test results were published, e.g. with GeekBench, where an iPhone with an older battery achieved about 50% of the performance of a new iPhone.
Well, just that his statements and tests are about nothing, yes, phones with older batteries have lower performance, but they also have iOS two generations newer than at the time of sale. If something slows down older phones, it's the new iOS with more and more features. This was already on the iPhone 3G and 3GS, where newer SW significantly slowed down the phone. I've been working in Apple service for 7 years, so I don't take it for granted. Yes, I believe that when the battery is almost empty, which can turn off the phone, for example in the cold (a feature of all Li-on batteries), Apple could adjust the phone's consumption so that this does not happen. But writing articles everywhere that old batteries or Apple deliberately slow down the phone is viral and clickbait in my opinion. So I'm pretty excited. Also, all the media is referring to the 6S's shutting down batteries which is something else entirely because it was just a faulty series of batteries, nothing more.
and the phone with the faulty battery is right in front of me, it turns off and hangs. Replace the battery = 5 days without a phone + waiting at the post office.
And that he would leave it up to the user to choose between stability and performance, they somehow didn't think of it, let alone tell him anything
Between stability and a switched-off mobile phone, because if the battery does not supply the given current during performance, the battery shuts down and basically turns off the mobile phone.
Well, I can confirm that the old battery does not give a stable output, just turn on the camera on a phone with a defective battery and it usually cannot handle the shock in the load and it turns off hard..