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I call bullshit. Reading the cached version, this is poorly disguised marketing lies for a third battery replacement service. The test scenario was not describ

by cjsuk 9y ago

I call bullshit. Reading the cached version, this is poorly disguised marketing lies for a third battery replacement service. The test scenario was not described, this is only one sample which could have been selected and the source is not credible. After 12 months of heavy daily usage on my 6s, I'm seeing 87% battery capacity left as an example after over 312 cycles. I am also seeing the same benchmark as the day I got it.

styfle 9y ago
When can you find battery capacity?
- twistiti 9y ago
  You can use coconutBattery.
- phete 9y ago
  I'm using https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/battery-life-doctor/id1165930552?l=en&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/battery-life-doctor/id116593...
- knolan 9y ago
  There are various apps on the App Store. The data is available in a public API. I won’t recommend any particulat App because I don’t trust any of them.
matthewmacleod 9y ago
Yeah, I'm sort of getting the same whiff of bullshit. My dev iPhone shows 611 cycles and 86% capacity, with the same GeekBench scores around 1500/2600. I know that's just one data point, but I'm super-sceptical given all of the misinformation that's been floating around about this topic.
turtlebits 9y ago
My 6s plus is almost 2 years old and the battery life app is showing 76%. Have not benchmarked it but it was only slow for a week or two after upgrading to iOS 11 and seems fine now. Did not notice slowdowns when using iOS 10 (which was when throttling was introduced)
- votepaunchy 9y ago
  Throttling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1.
kayoone 9y ago
My almost 3 year old iPhone 6 Plus shows the same scores as the the brand new one in that article, it even is a bit faster. All i did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better.
- arthurfm 9y ago
  > All I did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better. Apparently general sluggishness is not caused by the battery, but by some rogue iOS system process (which a reset fixes). https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-slow https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl... if "everything" is slow on your iPhone, it’s probably not this issue related to older batteries. A full backup and restore is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth trying. There are clearly some bugs in iOS 11 that triggered such problems in far too many devices. http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea... Ever since iOS 11 came out I had experienced a significant performance issue on my iPhone 6S. Animations and transitions were slow, app loading was noticeably and unbearably slower than iOS 10 and my battery was draining faster. Many rumours swirled that others were experiencing this but not all. […] Then several weeks ago a Reddit conversation started spreading online that presented possible evidence Apple was reducing the performance of their iOS and possibly laptops when the battery life was sufficiently degraded. That day I decided to test the theory by getting my battery replaced at the Apple Store. […] After I confirmed with her that I was not using it that heavily and the battery setting statistics also didn’t show an application using a large percentage of the battery she suggested a rogue system process that somehow persisted through upgrades and restarts. She also let me know that my battery was at 83% health and that Apple won’t even do a replacement unless it’s below 80%. So I went home and immediately did a local backup, wipe and restore. And voila! Performance issues were gone.
frik 9y ago
Why does this rather anecdotal comment stays on top and why has the article been hidden? A iPhone6 is a completely different hardware than a iPhone 6s. The 6s and SE have the same CPU and GPU spec, the 6 is a lot slower and not supported by Apple anymore for AR (augmented reality). The article is about 6 not 6s. I trust ifixit website a lot more than this dumb comment.

by cjsuk 9y ago

styfle 9y ago

When can you find battery capacity?

twistiti 9y ago
You can use coconutBattery.
phete 9y ago
I'm using https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/battery-life-doctor/id1165930552?l=en&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/battery-life-doctor/id116593...
knolan 9y ago
There are various apps on the App Store. The data is available in a public API. I won’t recommend any particulat App because I don’t trust any of them.

matthewmacleod 9y ago

Yeah, I'm sort of getting the same whiff of bullshit. My dev iPhone shows 611 cycles and 86% capacity, with the same GeekBench scores around 1500/2600. I know that's just one data point, but I'm super-sceptical given all of the misinformation that's been floating around about this topic.

turtlebits 9y ago

My 6s plus is almost 2 years old and the battery life app is showing 76%. Have not benchmarked it but it was only slow for a week or two after upgrading to iOS 11 and seems fine now. Did not notice slowdowns when using iOS 10 (which was when throttling was introduced)

votepaunchy 9y ago
Throttling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1.

kayoone 9y ago

My almost 3 year old iPhone 6 Plus shows the same scores as the the brand new one in that article, it even is a bit faster. All i did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better.

arthurfm 9y ago
> All I did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better. Apparently general sluggishness is not caused by the battery, but by some rogue iOS system process (which a reset fixes). https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-slow https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl... if "everything" is slow on your iPhone, it’s probably not this issue related to older batteries. A full backup and restore is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth trying. There are clearly some bugs in iOS 11 that triggered such problems in far too many devices. http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea... Ever since iOS 11 came out I had experienced a significant performance issue on my iPhone 6S. Animations and transitions were slow, app loading was noticeably and unbearably slower than iOS 10 and my battery was draining faster. Many rumours swirled that others were experiencing this but not all. […] Then several weeks ago a Reddit conversation started spreading online that presented possible evidence Apple was reducing the performance of their iOS and possibly laptops when the battery life was sufficiently degraded. That day I decided to test the theory by getting my battery replaced at the Apple Store. […] After I confirmed with her that I was not using it that heavily and the battery setting statistics also didn’t show an application using a large percentage of the battery she suggested a rogue system process that somehow persisted through upgrades and restarts. She also let me know that my battery was at 83% health and that Apple won’t even do a replacement unless it’s below 80%. So I went home and immediately did a local backup, wipe and restore. And voila! Performance issues were gone.

frik 9y ago

Why does this rather anecdotal comment stays on top and why has the article been hidden? A iPhone6 is a completely different hardware than a iPhone 6s. The 6s and SE have the same CPU and GPU spec, the 6 is a lot slower and not supported by Apple anymore for AR (augmented reality). The article is about 6 not 6s. I trust ifixit website a lot more than this dumb comment.