Hmm I think I still have an old iPod around that I’d better recycle. Orange, of course.
A for consumer battery other than li-ion shouldn’t catch fire. Well made li-ion batteries should have a lower risk of fire than shoddily made ones.
There is a risk. The risk is minimal, however, so I am happy to have old phones and other technology in my home. Seems like the risk is also exponential when the device is plugged into a power source. I have no reason to believe an old battery that’s almost completely discharged in my cupboard presents any safety risk.
I was just trying to point out that the Inside Edition fluff piece didn't look at all lithium battery devices and safety. Clearly there must have been some instances of rechargeable lithium batteries (most likely phones) igniting in the cargo holds of passenger planes in order for the ban to be proposed and imposed. It would follow logically that many of the devices were relatively new. If that is the case, then an older phone caught on camera exploding is really a non-story, albeit a dramatic video non-story.
They can happen to anything with a battery.
The iPhone 6 case is an especially sad one. The device was RAM-starved from the beginning, especially the 6 Plus. Even back on iOS 8, when it was launched there was a firehose of complaints related to that. 1GB of RAM just isn’t enough for those screens, again, especially the 6 Plus. Not even the original iOS version was efficient enough to offset the lack of RAM. Performance complaints abounded, and even if Apple touted iOS 12 as a performance-enhancing update (and even if it was significantly better than the fiasco that was iOS 11), it is unusable.
I tested an iPhone 6 Plus on iOS 12, and yeah, it was unusable. Keep in mind I don’t update anything, so my performance standards are, honestly, extremely high, but it wasn’t good at all.
Interesting. Your experience is much different than mine. I likewise never update devices once they are bought, and I have a 6s on iOS 10 that has come down to 75% health and the battery has suffered immensely for the last 2 years already. I rarely leave data or Wifi on and use few apps, but it was becoming untenable with the battery life.
Interesting! That poor? Mine has far worse battery health and works well. It’s well optimised, however. I tweaked settings for maximum efficiency. The 6s has no standby drop at all, and whilst runtime isn’t like the newer iPhones, it is like it was on iOS 9 with a new battery. How bad is it? How’s screen-on time?
Battery degradation is a verifiable phenomenon and your battery on 63% health will not be able to hold a charge as it did on day 1 unless you have very few charge cycles on record. I also believe you have lucked out in the lithium-ion battery lottery with that unit as not all batteries are equal with some degrading much faster than others due to differing chemical compositions.
I will say that the standby time on the 6S has remained very good. I am giving rough figures because it has been a while since I used the device, but when watching locally synced video content I could see 3-4 hours before the device shut off. For texting I could see maybe 5-6 hours over a few days before needing recharged, again I'm just giving a rough figure on this one.
It dropped a little in terms of screen-on time (like I said, half an hour, negligible), but it’s perfect on standby time. It just doesn’t drop. It’s why I called it like-new: half an hour isn’t significant enough for me to say it dropped, and standby time is perfect.
No way, you have an iPhone 7 on iOS 10! I used a 7 Plus on iOS 10 but its hardware was broken so I traded it in to Apple for my Xʀ. That’s pretty cool! I should have kept that 7 Plus, I regret the trade-in. The 7 on iOS 10 is amazing! The 8 is great too! I think it was the only device which wasn’t affected by iOS 11’s battery life fiasco (it was a disaster for everything without an A11 Bionic). So it should be outstanding, too!
I am not disputing your personal experience, I just don’t believe that it’s indicative of the average person’s experience with an older battery. The battery you have in your 6S could be a top 0.1% performer and a complete aberration.
For what it's worth, when I have used the 8 as a backup alarm clock I never noticed any standby drain on iOS 11. I have not used it for much else other than that.
It’s a shame that we don‘t have a huge pool of users to draw data from. There aren’t many people with non-updated devices with degraded batteries at all, let alone ones we can find, let alone ones with early enough versions to draw conclusions from. I’ve found two people here with a 6s on iOS 10. There are more, probably, but they aren’t easy to find, because there aren’t many.
Cool, maybe it’s iOS 12 then.
