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I'm really infuriated about this. Since mid-2016, my iPhone 6 Plus started to act "weird". It'd shut down sporadically, would reach 40% and then suddenly deplet

I'm really infuriated about this. Since mid-2016, my iPhone 6 Plus started to act "weird". It'd shut down sporadically, would reach 40% and then suddenly deplete, and started to get slow. But the problems were not consistent. I went to the Apple Store, and the phone passed all their diagnosis checks, even the battery. A few months later, after my AppleCare+ expired, the problems intensified. And I spent most of 2017 with a very slow and unreliable phone. I honestly thought it was iOS 10. Had I known it was the battery, I'd have paid to replace it. Or I'd have forced them to upgrade it for me for free when I had AppleCare+. I upgraded to an iPhone X, thinking the 6 Plus had reached its EOL, but now I think I've been lied to!

akvadrako 9y ago
Your issue isn't this "scandal" though. This is about preventing sporadic shutdowns by throttling, so if your phone was shutting down it was an undiagnosed bad battery, which is a legit complaint.
- ComputerGuru 9y ago
  Yes it is. The “fix” was introduced to avoid these crashes by throttling instead of browning out. It’s in the article.
  - akvadrako 9y ago
    The fix, the throttling, is the controversial part, NOT the sporadic shutdowns. It's absurd, because throttling is much better than brownouts, but that's what the lawsuits are about.
    - ComputerGuru 9y ago
      I don’t get it. You are acting as if the brownouts are typical behavior of a year-old battery in a phone? The real scandal is the shoddy design and engineering that led to brownouts that necessitated either a massive recall or this throttling.
      - akvadrako 9y ago
        That might be the "real scandal" but it isn't "this scandal". It doesn't matter what I think about brownouts because that isn't the topic.
Aaronn 9y ago
Were you on a version of iOS 10 before 10.2.1?
lmedinas 9y ago
Same here i had a iPhone 6s and i had exactly the same problems you described. 1) Drop from 30% to 5% in some minutes. iOS 10.x fixed this issue. 2) Now with iOS 11 the battery does even last a day and the phone was extremely slow. Sure i had issues in the past after 2 years with my Nexus 5 and Galaxy Nexus but both were kind of mid range price ~400 Euros. But with a high end phone that cost 800 Euros I would expect better quality and also better costumer support. This xmas i just got myself a ~350 Euros Android and i'm much more happy. After 2 years if the phone has battery issues or whatever i will not be so furious has i am now. I've been recently moving away from Apple mainly due to Quality / Price ratio. I have a 2012 iMac which is basically useless except from Browsing on the Web. Other companies like Google, Amazon etc... ship good quality devices for much cheaper price. So for me i'm not thinking in buying anything else from Apple.
yeukhon 9y ago
For 6s, the shutdown probably has to do with the faulty battery. But maybe there was a batch bad for 6+ as well. https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ Not sure if they checked when the battery was manufactured. But now given $29 I guess no longer relevant...

akvadrako 9y ago

Your issue isn't this "scandal" though. This is about preventing sporadic shutdowns by throttling, so if your phone was shutting down it was an undiagnosed bad battery, which is a legit complaint.

ComputerGuru 9y ago
Yes it is. The “fix” was introduced to avoid these crashes by throttling instead of browning out. It’s in the article.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  The fix, the throttling, is the controversial part, NOT the sporadic shutdowns. It's absurd, because throttling is much better than brownouts, but that's what the lawsuits are about.
  - ComputerGuru 9y ago
    I don’t get it. You are acting as if the brownouts are typical behavior of a year-old battery in a phone? The real scandal is the shoddy design and engineering that led to brownouts that necessitated either a massive recall or this throttling.
    - akvadrako 9y ago
      That might be the "real scandal" but it isn't "this scandal". It doesn't matter what I think about brownouts because that isn't the topic.

Aaronn 9y ago

Were you on a version of iOS 10 before 10.2.1?

lmedinas 9y ago

Same here i had a iPhone 6s and i had exactly the same problems you described. 1) Drop from 30% to 5% in some minutes. iOS 10.x fixed this issue. 2) Now with iOS 11 the battery does even last a day and the phone was extremely slow. Sure i had issues in the past after 2 years with my Nexus 5 and Galaxy Nexus but both were kind of mid range price ~400 Euros. But with a high end phone that cost 800 Euros I would expect better quality and also better costumer support. This xmas i just got myself a ~350 Euros Android and i'm much more happy. After 2 years if the phone has battery issues or whatever i will not be so furious has i am now. I've been recently moving away from Apple mainly due to Quality / Price ratio. I have a 2012 iMac which is basically useless except from Browsing on the Web. Other companies like Google, Amazon etc... ship good quality devices for much cheaper price. So for me i'm not thinking in buying anything else from Apple.

yeukhon 9y ago

For 6s, the shutdown probably has to do with the faulty battery. But maybe there was a batch bad for 6+ as well. https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/ Not sure if they checked when the battery was manufactured. But now given $29 I guess no longer relevant...