In the reddit thread people have mentioned that the CPU clock goes up when connected to a charger and gradually decreases after being unplugged and used.
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In the reddit thread people have mentioned that the CPU clock goes up when connected to a charger and gradually decreases after being unplugged and used.
So it has been confirmed to be happening on the iPhone 7? How about the 7 Plus? This is very disconcerting as I intend for my iPhone 7 Plus to be my last iPhone for a while. My warranty runs out in a matter of a week.
Yes, iPhone 7 users have reported the CPU being throttled on older batteries.
The best thing you can do is pray Apple makes this "feature" an option in the iOS menu or replace your battery every 1-2 years depending on your usage.
This: If this actually can be proven it would be a big lawsuit. But "if" is a big question.
I've been moving back and forth between iOS and Android for quite awhile so will be sticking with Android awhile while preserving my battery on my 7. Last iPhone for me as between this and the price of an X just seems like a cash grab and a screwing of the customer by a mega rich corporation becoming greedier. I'll be voting with my wallet. With the pixel introduction by Google, Android has finally become stable, smooth and otherwise fantastic. Not to mention customizations.
So far, mine is still holding. I do use battery saver all the time though unless I'm running a test. I have no idea how to find the battery cycles. Lirium won't show that data in these new iOS iterations. I don't own a Mac.
Edit: The low one was accidentally run with battery saver on.
Are you running iOS 10.2.1 or later? Have you checked your benchmarks?
My battery life has been sub-par, and performance is slow. I had Apple check it over, and they reported "all is well." I assumed that meant iOS 11 (which they asked me to upgrade to, in their first go-round) simply required more horsepower than what my 6 could deliver.
Instead, it turns out "because of a battery issue we weren't willing to spend the money to recall, we throttled back your phone" which they didn't tell me, and let me assume I needed to upgrade.
Please let me know which car company purposely slowed down my car through an automotive firmware update, to compensate for an aging battery (said battery, btw, is user replaceable unlike the iPhone).
I really don't care about the "replace your battery for $75 after 2 years" mantra. It's the rest of it that stinks.
That's a really hefty drop. I'm tempted to check my iPhone 6 as well.
Though I'm quite sure more of my slow-down issues are because of iOS input-blocking driving me up the wall.
I had to change the battery after 2 years of usage on both my iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 Plus because the wear level was so high that the phone would barely make it to lunch time.
That's completely unacceptable.
And makes sense with what we been seeing in the past with planned obsolesce of iOS devices over time and iOS updates.
I hope this is taken to court and they get sued hard. This way no other tech companies can pull such shady and illegal moves to screw over their customers.
This is bad.
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You dont make any sense dude, but keep posting nonsense defending Apple over illegal schemes like this.
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Thank you Erik, I just installed that battery life app to check.
What do you guys use on stock iOS to check your CPU performance to check to see if its Throttled?
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Uhh because when people do bring up similar experiences, they get shouted down as being Samsung shills, anti-Apple, etc...
The rest know nothing of tech, and go with the slow flow until they replace a perfectly good phone, that has been unknowingly throttled by Apple.
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I haven't run GB4 on my iPhone 7 before, but I just did and got:
3538 single core
5965 multi-core
Clearly my iphone 7, which was bought just after launch, has not been throttled. The battery is probably fairly low on the cycle count, though. Running iOS 11.2.
I’m not defending Apple. I said since people aren’t aware that Apple is cutting performance when the battery is going bad, Apple should have a popup warning about the performance loss and to have the the battery replaced.. They love using popups to get you to update, they should have the same persistent popup for this
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Just an F Y I for those with iOS 11 - the only way to see charge cycles is via coconutBattery on Mac or some paid Windows App that reads your phone after you plug it into your computer. IOS 10 and before - apps could see this.
I know this, I’m going to be keeping my 8+ for a very long time. I just got an Apple Watch so I probably won’t be leaving Apple anytime soon but when it does come time to update these devices in a few years, if Apple keeps up this “Must make billions at the expense of our customers” attitude, I’ll gladly purchase a Pixel. My work let me use a Dell laptop so I won’t be buying a Mac (not like I could afford one) anytime soon.
I’ve used a Pixel and imo, Apple is still superior - hardware wise it is really hard to beat - but that may be changing as we see here. The price is sure hard to justify. 2 years is a long time, so we’ll see where Apple is at.
I know this, I’m going to be keeping my 8+ for a very long time. I just got an Apple Watch so I probably won’t be leaving Apple anytime soon but when it does come time to update these devices in a few years, if Apple keeps up this “Must make billions at the expense of our customers” attitude, I’ll gladly purchase a Pixel. My work let me use a Dell laptop so I won’t be buying a Mac (not like I could afford one) anytime soon.
I’ve used a Pixel and imo, Apple is still superior - hardware wise it is really hard to beat - but that may be changing as we see here. The price is sure hard to justify. 2 years is a long time, so we’ll see where Apple is at.
You know many of us here consider ourselves advanced users and tinkerers of iphones and iOS in general.
But how many check their battery performance and cross references that and test their CPU performance to see if its running under the set parameters?
I'd say 99% of users do not do that, or even know how to do it or have an idea of what their core CPU should perform like.
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They should definitely make this public and hiding it like that is what makes it even more shady and illegal to slow down your device for whatever reason without the user having an idea if or what is causing it.
Where are you getting that screen? I've had Battery Life for years and lost that data with either the iOS 11 or iOS 10 upgrade, I forget which. I just poked around and can't find anywhere with that info. What version of iOS are you running?
That and there were a fair number of users with the 6s and 6s+ that had battery issues. My wife was one of them. We’d be waking in the park doing Ingress and her 6s+ would shut off quite consistently. We’d boot it back up and the 40-60% battery it had would be at 8%. We took it to Apple and they said there was nothing wrong with it even though their tester app failed to complete 3 times.
I do think that it didn’t have a majority of users having problems though. That’s why only 500 on a reddit forum are voicing their opinion - I know my 6s+ was near perfect and most likely out of the many millions that had 6s+ phones, theirs were too. Instead of fixing a problem that it saw, it looks like Apple tried to sweep the small % that did have a problem under the rug - my wife’s iPhone 6s+ one of them.
For a company like Apple this is inexcusable. Especially when it is the most expensive phone brand out there.
And Applejuiced is right. There are very few people out there like me. I check my battery usage weekly, my battery mAh capacity, charge cycles, and put it down in an excel file and graph it over the ownership of the phone. I have yet to meet anyone else like me.
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He’s running iOS 9
I believe he is jail broken too.
That and there were a fair number of users with the 6s and 6s+ that had battery issues. My wife was one of them. We’d be waking in the park doing Ingress and her 6+ would shut off quite consistently. We’d boot it back up and the 40-60% battery it had would be at 8%. We took it to Apple and they said there was nothing wrong with it even though their tester app failed to complete 3 times.
I do think that it didn’t have a majority of users having problems though. That’s why only 500 on a reddit forum are voicing their opinion - I know my 6s+ was near perfect and most likely out of the many millions that had 6s+ phones, theirs were too. Instead of fixing a problem that it saw, it looks like Apple tried to sweep the small % that did have a problem under the rug - my wife’s iPhone 6s+ one of them.
For a company like Apple this is inexcusable. Especially when it is the most expensive phone brand out there.
And Applejuiced is right. There are very few people out there like me. I check my battery usage weekly, my battery mAh capacity, charge cycles, and put it down in an excel file and graph it over the ownership of the phone. I have yet to meet anyone else like me.
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He’s running iOS 9
Many of my friends with iPhone 6 and 6S had the same problem.
They were calling me asking if I could replace their battery but I didnt want to risk opening it and buying 3rd party batteries to replace.
And Apple would not replace the battery for free.
They wanted to charge them $80 and were telling them mind as well upgrade to the newest iPhone instead of spending money on fixing the old one that is slow and outdated.
Totally shady since they knew their batteries were crap and instead of replacing all of them for free they were slowing down peoples devices on purpose to get them to buy a new iPhone or pay $80 out of pocket to replace their defective batteries.