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BEWARE! iOS 14.5.1 is Throttling!
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Yeah this seems to be getting kept rather quiet for some reason. Considering the lawsuits and PR that came from something similar in the past it's in Apple's best interest to address it ASAP, which is more likely to happen if people actually know about it.
I already saw a video where the iPhone 7 was lagging and getting outperformed by a 6th gen iPod touch. That iPod only has the A8 (like iPhone 6) and is pretty slow itself, which just shows how much impact this throttling can have.
It’s not that easy anymore. It’s not even downloaded. But maybe if I wait long enough it will just disappear. It’s happened before.
YMMV obviously
I'm sure Apple will push out the 14.5.2 update this week. Apple would say "very small percentage of users experienced this"
Need some more mainstream exposure for this issue and it sucks there is no acknowledgment about it from apple. I’m not wasting 99 cents on geekbench 5 just to see if my iPhone 12 is affected. I bought geekbench years ago to confirm my 6s was affected with the battery throttling.
When I initially updated to iOS 14.5.1, it was super laggy. In games, the frame rates were horrible, and when opening apps, frame rates were dropping; however, since I did a clean install, it has been running as it used to on iOS 14.5.
But why, after a clean install, is my performance back to normal? Shouldn't it be updating files in the background after a clean install?
I've found a solution to my case, Reset the phone and do not restore any backup, basically fresh reinstall. My geekbench score multi went back to normal 4031 instead of 2336. The minute I restored back my old backups, the throttling is still there. Basically, clean reinstall of everything fresh.
Are u just doing a simple factory reset once update to 14.5.1 ? Or u restore the clean ipsw files from itunes ?
I have done the same erase all setting on 14.6 beta 2 unfortunately the result still the same. Maybe i should try a clean ipsw install
Threads like these remind me that I was correct in turning off auto update on my iPhone.
I would consider that the problem is in the application, if the iphone did not start to be stupid in opening applications and everything elseMaybe it’s just a Geekbench app issue? I ran my app yesterday and got half score on Multicore. I ran it this morning and back to normal…I didn’t restart or anything.
I would consider that the problem is in the application, if the iphone did not start to be stupid in opening applications and everything else
Everything works flawlessly on my iPhone 12. No issues. Just my 2 cents here…
update: apparently after awhile it went back slow again, tried clean IPSW install but still the same. Oh well, I guess it's 14.5.1 itself. Probably have to go back to 14.5
12 Pro here. Multicore also bring throttled down from 3955 to 2405. Single core score unchanged. My iPad Pro 12.9 4th gen scores unchanged.
I personally do not think this is geekbench's. I noticed the problem when I was playing mobile legends after the update. Performance was horrible and I blamed Mobile Legend at first but then I went through this thread and noticed people are having the same throttling issue. I downloaded Geekbench later on and tested out and was right about the significant performance drop. So no, it is not Geekbench
