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The elephant in the room that no one addresses is that Apple offers 3 year extended warranty programs for which they refuse to fix the malfunctioning batteries
by lapdanz 9y ago
The elephant in the room that no one addresses is that Apple offers 3 year extended warranty programs for which they refuse to fix the malfunctioning batteries by claiming that they pass their tests. This is despite the fact that the tests ran by the phone obviously fail (let's assume that Apple indeed checks the status of our batteries and is not applying blanket throttling) leading to the frequency limits.
- marklyon 9y agoI actually encountered this with my 6+, which I eventually upgraded. It was quickly depleting the battery, but the tests showed it was fine. The tech urged me to upgrade to the latest iOS, which I was hesitant to do, since I'd heard doing so would slow my phone. I didn't want a slow phone with a battery that died quickly. He assured me that the slowness had been addressed. Wanting to fix my phone, I upgraded. [0] Immediate slowness, to the point of being unusable, demonstrated to the in-store techs. Launching Twitter, for instance, would take minutes and crash half the time. I then found there was no supported method of reverting the upgrade, though one tech told me that if I browsed YouTube I could find a tutorial. I didn't want to DIY a downgrade and still have the short battery life, so I ended up selling my phone for a very low price and buying a new one. If I'd known replacing the battery would have revived it, I'd have happily done that. [0] https://i.imgur.com/OYZr7zd.png https://i.imgur.com/OYZr7zd.png