General Apple Slowing Down old iPhones Controversy

[Rook 557k Donor]

So it turns out our conspiracy theory was true. Apple officially stated that they’re slowing down old iPhones with bad batteries.

I’ve had an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.4 for a while and eventually it would shut off at 30% out of nowhere. In the recent iOS versions, Apple has addressed this issue by limiting the CPU performance so that it’s less power hungry which in turn should be more friendly with old batteries and stop the unexpected shutdowns.

Replacing your battery with a new one will boost your performance back up.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think they should have notified their users instead? Or do you think they should slow the iPhones down and notify their users that it’s being slowed down and a new battery is required?

[Samollthecamel 6.1k]

Really! This is outrageous. Well I'm moving to galaxy. I'm not payin for another battery

[Lord Alucard 10.3k Donor]

Meh, it's fake news. Phones slow down because people use them While they're on the charger. 

[TheArmKing 60.3k]

My theory 4 macs is they slow older macs like mba 2015 and stuff when new MacOS launches to make us upgrade

[Rook 557k Donor]

3 minutes ago, Samollthecamel said:

Really! This is outrageous. Well I'm moving to galaxy. I'm not payin for another battery

Apple is probably not the only company doing this.

2 minutes ago, Lord Alucard said:

Meh, it's fake news. Phones slow down because people use them While they're on the charger. 

No, Apple stated this themselves.

2 minutes ago, TheArmKing said:

My theory 4 macs is they slow older macs like mba 2015 and stuff when new MacOS launches to make us upgrade

Perhaps yes. That could be another perk of them slowing down old devices.

As I stated above, I’ve had the unexpected shutdown problems on my old i6 on iOS 8.4.

[Lord Alucard 10.3k Donor]

1 minute ago, DiDA said:

Apple is probably not the only company doing this.

No, Apple stated this themselves.

Perhaps yes. That could be another perk of them slowing down old devices.

As I stated above, I’ve had the unexpected shutdown problems on my old i6 on iOS 8.4.

Nah, fake news

[Archangel04 33k]

It's real however you can still easily get a battery replacement and use it yknow

Specific reason is that degraded batteries cannot provide the high voltage required for usage, so Apple limits the requirements by slowing it down. 

Alternatively, it will cause phones to shut down randomly

[Rook 557k Donor]

Just now, Archangel04 said:

It's real however you can still easily get a battery replacement and use it yknow

That’s what I thought, but they did this without users knowledge. If they could have warned them via a popup inside the OS, it would have been better so the user gets to decide whether to use the old or replace his/her battery.

Either way, admitting this damages the company because then users will know that they need to spend more money to replace their batteries every 1-2 years.

[Joka 2.9k]

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[Archangel04 33k]

4 minutes ago, DiDA said:

That’s what I thought, but they did this without users knowledge. If they could have warned them via a popup inside the OS, it would have been better so the user gets to decide whether to use the old or replace his/her battery.

Either way, admitting this damages the company because then users will know that they need to spend more money to replace their batteries every 1-2 years.

its either that or random kernel panics (or worse for JB users). Seeing as it is an issue with Li ion batteries themselves, its not much they can do. They should, however, have communicated this and I agree with you on that