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Why not just replace the battery rather than get new phones? My iPhone 6's lightning port broke around the time iOS 11 appeared, so I used the insurance we had
by garyrob 9y ago
Why not just replace the battery rather than get new phones? My iPhone 6's lightning port broke around the time iOS 11 appeared, so I used the insurance we had on it to get a replacement. The replacement was another iPhone 6, with a new battery.
That new battery is working fantastically well for me under iOS 11. I have gotten through 2 days straight of use without a recharge. No exaggeration. It happened to be relatively light use, but it wasn't in low-power mode, and it did everything I wanted it to do for 2 days.
- alecthomas 9y agoBecause nothing was wrong with the batteries as far as we could tell, and Apple "support" didn't mention anything. That's the whole point of these law suits. Apple didn't tell consumers that a) their batteries were degraded or b) that performance would be dialled back to compensate. If people were told they would have just swapped batteries, as we would have. I'd much rather pay $150 for a new battery than $1000 for a new phone. Prior to iOS 11 they still lasted all day, no random shutdowns, no issues at all. After iOS 11 the phone was slow as hell and the battery drained extremely quickly... the opposite of what you would expect given the recent revelations, but that's what we observed.
- garyrob 9y agoOK, makes sense. No indication that anything was wrong with the batteries before iOS 11, so why assume new batteries will help. It's strange though, because my experience, with a "new" replacement iPhone 6, is that iOS 11 works great for battery life. It's hard to understand, unless the replacement iPhone 6's they're making now have some difference compared to the old ones that has to do with battery life.