BEWARE! iOS 14.5.1 is Throttling!

[Zdigital2015]

Updated from iOS 14.5 yesterday to iOS 14.5.1 on my iPhone 11. After the update finished, I was playing CODM and noticed the frame rates were horrible. I checked my settings to make that it was set to the max frame rate, which it was. I then ran a geekbench test, and the scores I got were horrible for the multi-core. I then rebooted my phone to no avail; it was still super slow in games and in opening apps. I then proceeded to do a clean install which seems to have fixed the issue. Now my geekbench score is normal, and performance is what it used to be. What is going on, Apple? Anyone else having this issue? Upload a screenshot of your geekbench score on iOS 14.5.1 and tell us what device you have.

My XR under 12.4.1 - 1113 SC, 2536 MC
My XR under 13.5.1 - 1113 SC, 2656 MC
My XR under 14.5.1 - 1115 SC, 1953 MC

Battery life has been in the toilet as well, whereas when I first got the XR, it was like the Energizer Bunny. I would really like to not have to do a nuke and pave if I can avoid it.

Animations are laggy as hell now too, but my GPU score delta from 13.1.1 to 14.5.1 is 4566–>5191, so it must be the abysmal MC scores and some sort of performance regression that crept in at the last
minute.

 

[ravetta]

Perhaps it's something to do with this AppTransparency permission.

 

[nph]

Battery life hasn’t been any good on 14.5 and 14.5.1, WTF is going on at apple these days, are they turning into the next Samsung. 🤦‍♂️

Getting 2 hours less battery life on my 12 pro max.

Battery life since 14.3 has been terrible for me! 12 Pro Max

 

[VespiYT]

Im having thr throttling no matter what I do, hard reboot, lock and unlock, this is fkd up and they stopped sign 14.4.2 aswell

 

[ravetta]

Battery life since 14.3 has been terrible for me! 12 Pro Max

I didn't notice when/what update, but I have for sure noticed worse battery life lately. I thought it was just because I've been opening Coinbase every other minute 🤣

 

[Runs For Fun]

I didn't run a benchmark prior to 14.5.1 but it looks like this is about normal for the 12 Pro Max.

 

[VespiYT]

This is what I get on Iphone 11 since 14.5.1 no matter what I do

 

[Palliser]

Totally happening on my iPhone 11. Everything is super laggy. I thought I was just seeing things.

 

[zorinlynx]

I'm not having performance issues, but one thing I did notice while poking around is that the iOS 14.5.x battery recalibration is complete and it shows the capacity again under battery health.

Could some of you have wonky batteries and throttling got enabled when calibration finished? Check your battery health sections to see.

 

[VespiYT]

I'm not having performance issues, but one thing I did notice while poking around is that the iOS 14.5.x battery recalibration is complete and it shows the capacity again under battery health.

Could some of you have wonky batteries and throttling got enabled when calibration finished? Check your battery health sections to see.

Could have been, but Iphone 12s are affected aswell and my 11 still calibrating my battery

 

[arobert3434]

Battery life since 14.3 has been terrible for me! 12 Pro Max

I've also taken to putting my phone into battery-save mode since the recent 14's.

 

[hagjohn]

I thought things were running a bit slower than normal.

 

[mediamentor]

My iPhone 12 Pro Max is throttled too! 😭

 

[ajf.350d]

Just to add to my earlier post.
Although I posted a score after a reboot, I had tried it before doing it and got close to the same result.
Having said all that, tested again a few minutes ago and it shows a ‘normal’ score. 1588 and 4290.

Could it actually be a Geekbench bug rather than the phone?

 

[VespiYT]

I hope they release a fix asap, this is definetly not ok

 

[VespiYT]

Just to add to my earlier post.
Although I posted a score after a reboot, I had tried it before doing it and got close to the same result.
Having said all that, tested again a few minutes ago and it shows a ‘normal’ score. 1588 and 4290.

Could it actually be a Geekbench bug rather than the phone?

I thought so at first, but I can feel my frames drop in games aswell

 

[Tomasz_PL]

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This is what I get on Iphone 11 since 14.5.1 no matter what I do

My score is exactly the same as yours. iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.5.1. Nothing helps to fix it.

 

[0183392]

iPhone 11 Pro 64gb
iOS 14.5.1

Very laggy
I have tried hard reset , regular reboot, nothing seems to work so far

Battery seem to deplete faster also

 

[VespiYT]

Can anyone confirm if ios 14.6 beta 2 fixes this?

 

[curtis242]

Try CPU DasherX from the app store that shows what speed the cpu is running at. I’m on 12pro an my geekbench scores are normal cpu speed is normal an no performance issues

 

[Sal09]

No issues here.

 

[rsnhakan]

My 12 Pro is even faster with 14.5.1 in comparison to 14.3 (last benchmark).

 

[SumYoungGai]

Can anyone confirm if ios 14.6 beta 2 fixes this?

Updated and it immediately fixed it for me.

 

[VespiYT]

Updated and it immediately fixed it for me.

Good to know! Might be worth updating for those with issues then, I dont know what issues there is in ios 14.6 beta2 but this is the worst

 

[Mimiron]

My Pro Max acts like a donkey ass. WTF, Apple. This is supposed to be your retail upgrade when a fricking beta performs better?