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Before iOS 11 my 3 year old iPhone 6 behaved perfectly fine. After the upgrade it's so painfully slow it's basically unusable. For example, the Messages app mai

Before iOS 11 my 3 year old iPhone 6 behaved perfectly fine. After the upgrade it's so painfully slow it's basically unusable. For example, the Messages app maintains a lag of a few characters when typing, the Camera app freezes for ~5 seconds every time you open it, each tap on the screen has a perceivable delay, etc. My battery life hasn't been a problem over the last 3 years and I have not experienced my phone overheating or crashing (which I could interpret as signs of overclocking). I do not believe Apple shipped the slowdown to "protect my battery". Even if that truly was their desire, I'd much rather protect my UX instead and let the battery die (though, again, it didn't show any signs of severe degradation). This underclocking should at the very least be a customizable setting. Is there a reasonable chance Apple will revert this change after losing some of the lawsuits?

scarlac 9y ago
> I do not believe Apple shipped the slowdown to "protect my battery" So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught? My GF and I were affected by the voltage issue on iPhone 6 & 6S. If Apple can fix it by limiting voltage, it will give a better experience. Alternative is literal data loss which I consider much worse. BUT: They do need to tell users about this slow down. This is where they made a mistake. I don't see them reverting this change. I do see them paying a hefty fine for covertly downgrading, and being forced to inform their users of the downgrade. I do see them pushing software updates to refine the "battery management system" going forward.
- wojcikstefan 9y ago
  > So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught? I don't feel comfortable speculating about their real intentions. Regardless, my main qualm is that they made my user experience worse without warning me about it during the upgrade nor providing the exact reason for it. I guess we can both agree then it's primarily a communication issue.
zwily 9y ago
The throttling code change happened in 10.2.1, not 11.
- wojcikstefan 9y ago
  Thank you for the clarification. That means my phone's performance after the iOS 11 upgrade dropped due to something other than the battery-related throttling. Not sure if that's good news or not...

scarlac 9y ago

> I do not believe Apple shipped the slowdown to "protect my battery" So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught? My GF and I were affected by the voltage issue on iPhone 6 & 6S. If Apple can fix it by limiting voltage, it will give a better experience. Alternative is literal data loss which I consider much worse. BUT: They do need to tell users about this slow down. This is where they made a mistake. I don't see them reverting this change. I do see them paying a hefty fine for covertly downgrading, and being forced to inform their users of the downgrade. I do see them pushing software updates to refine the "battery management system" going forward.

wojcikstefan 9y ago
> So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught? I don't feel comfortable speculating about their real intentions. Regardless, my main qualm is that they made my user experience worse without warning me about it during the upgrade nor providing the exact reason for it. I guess we can both agree then it's primarily a communication issue.

zwily 9y ago

The throttling code change happened in 10.2.1, not 11.

wojcikstefan 9y ago
Thank you for the clarification. That means my phone's performance after the iOS 11 upgrade dropped due to something other than the battery-related throttling. Not sure if that's good news or not...