Apple Confirms It Slows iPhones With Older Batteries to Prevent Unexpected Shutdowns
Apple has addressed claims from an app company that says the maker of iPhones slows down the performance of older phones.
On Monday, the blog Primate Labs, a company that makes an app for measuring the speed of an iPhone's processor, published data that appeared to show slower performance in the Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 models as they aged.
Apple on Wednesday acknowledged that the company does take some measures to reduce power demands - which can have the effect of slowing the processor - when a phone's battery is having trouble supplying the peak current that the processor demands.
The problem stems from the fact that all lithium-ion batteries, not just those found in Apple products, degrade and have problems supplying the big bursts as they age and accumulate charging cycles, Apple said in a statement. The problems with peak current draws can also occur when batteries are cold or low on charge.
Aha! So that's what happened! It's was actually a good thing overall. I became so accustomed to an instantly refreshed feed that I didn't realized how impatient I had become. Now I chill.. and hope that it will eventually happen. Apple could have warned us... or did they?
in the old iphone 3g days i used to jailbreak often, what i found after a jailbreak was that apple had a kill switch hidden in the code, who knows what else they have in there? honestly this feels sneaky...