After days of talking about the possibility that Apple was intentionally slowing down older iPhones with dead batteries the company has had no choice but to go out and clarify this issue so that it stops speculating about it. And the reality is that, as the tests indicated, Apple admits that it is making iPhones with faulty batteries perform slower.
First Reddit, then Geekbench and now Apple: if your old iPhone works worse after a couple of years, do not continue respecting settings, do not restore iOS 11 again or go crazy looking for how to download to iOS 10. Consider spending € 89 to change a battery because that may be the real solution to your problems. Apple explains its reasons.
Our goal is for the user to enjoy the best experience with their iPhone, and that includes not only the performance but also the life of their devices. Lithium batteries become less effective when dealing with consumption peaks when they are exposed to low temperatures, or when they are over a certain age. This can cause the device to shut down unexpectedly to protect its components.
Last year we launched a feature for the iPhone 6, 6s, and SE that would lessen those peak power when needed to prevent the device from shutting down. Now we have extended that feature to the iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2 and our plans are to introduce new devices in the future.
These words are the ones that Apple has published and in which it explains why it makes its old devices lower their performance when the battery is already worn out. Taking into account that the batteries are designed to maintain 80% of their capacity for 500 cycles (with a daily charge it would be a year and a half more or less), we can reach the occlusion that problems start to get serious when your iPhone is two years old. At that moment the system itself, knowing that the battery is no longer at its best, makes the power of the iPhone yours to prevent the battery from making an effort that it really cannot do anymore.
As we have told you these days, if your iPhone is two years old or more, and you notice that it no longer works as smoothly as before, you should consider changing the battery. Apple's price is € 89 in its official stores or in the authorized technical services, a money that after two years of use, if it really returns youth to your iPhone, will be more than well invested.
This move made by Apple is entirely logical. Like it or not, lithium basins have a limited lifespan, and unfortunately it is not very long. It is not reprehensible that Apple wants to preserve the weight of components and prevent your iPhone from leaving you lying down at the first change. What should be improved is communication with the user, which You have the right to know what is wrong with your iPhone, the reasons why it no longer works as before, and also have the possibility to solve the problem, for which it is necessary to know it. A notification indicating that the battery is in bad condition and that it would be convenient to change it would not hurt, really.
How unscientific the article seems to me ... the battery ... change it ... I think we are not finding out, if a device works on day X with iOS 10 and day X + 1 no longer works so well with iOS 11, wouldn't it be more sensible think that the problem is in iOS 11 ?. I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 10 and it still works fine for me, because I have just left iOS 10, so I will not change the battery.
Bad article and bad explanations.
But it also has to do with user experience. The article is fine both in when they would celebrate that Apple inserted a notice of when the battery no longer respects the necessary charge rates for the operating system.
I have a 6s that with iOS 10 of less arbitrarily turned off with 27% battery and other times with more or less.
A battery change warning would suffice.
I bought an iPhone 6s in October 2015, 1 year and 6 months later Apple told me that I should change the battery because there was a shipment of iPhone 6s with a faulty battery (obviously for free). Now I have an iPhone 6s with the battery with only 5 months and I am still on iOs 9, I must update it to iOs11 since the person who will inherit my iPhone has an iPhone with iOs 11 and as you already know, only backup copies of it can be loaded iOs or higher ……
I hope that my battery being "new" does not have these problems… ..
I understand the comments of people who complain about how it is possible that an iPhone with 1 day of difference and with the only difference of the type of iOs that it carries inside it, the battery yields so differently, although from what Apple says has "created" this iOs 11 for iPhone's with the A11 bionic chip, which is not the case with iOs 10. It is possible that iOs 11 needs a series of specific circumstances to get the same juice from the battery as in iOs 10, we can complaining that Apple should take more care of these aspects, but from that to take for granted that the fault is solely and exclusively of iOs11 is a lot to assume.
I'm with you… I had an iPhone 3G, it lasted for years, I changed it for a 4S, it lasted even more years. I spent a lot of time buying an iPhone7 with the confidence that it would last me a few years if I treated it well, as before ... and now, less than a year after I bought it, when apple is out of the p *** tas , it will slow me down ... with a couple ...
And you stay so hot ... I am beginning to be very up to the apple websites and their policies, their prices, their obsolescence, their iOS that disable the mobiles that they want / decide ... and you dance their water with these articles.
Seriously, I have very little left to continue clapping pasta and health with the apple of yore. And your total lack of criticism towards them is helping me very much to disown these hucksters.
I come from a 7 plus and now I have an X and the truth is that I do not notice much the difference that the 7 plus slows down, it is practically the same as the X nose .. tube also a 6s with ios 11 and fabulous, I do not think that the battery affects the system is my personal opinion.
Last week my OS crashed when I updated to the latest version of iOS. A couple of hours trying to get him to restore (he didn't want the condemned man) and I got it. Since then it has been much slower. During these days I will try to restore again to see if it solves it but it does not seem right….