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Why would it be paranoia? Waking up the CPU faster and maximizing its performance will definitely drain the battery faster. I assume the iOS12 update includes

by mtgx 8y ago

Why would it be paranoia? Waking up the CPU faster and maximizing its performance will definitely drain the battery faster. I assume the iOS12 update includes a combination of more aggressive waking and maximizing of performance along with a reverting of what they did previously to old phones when they lowered their performance to maintain the battery life of the degraded battery. If you remember there was quite a bit of scandal about this earlier this year. My guess is your old iPhone's battery will also last half as much as it did originally within months. Yes, it's a factor of the new changes, but let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones, and then hiding much of that by slowing your iPhone down. Maybe Apple should put higher quality batteries in their phones - just saying.

micv 8y ago
> let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones As far as I can tell this simply isn't true. My iPhone SE is at 89% of maximum capacity after 2.5 years of very regular use. It's standing up pretty well.
- tracker1 8y ago
  I think in general a lot of batteries in mobile devices for a couple years dropped off dramatically if charging to full regularly (ex: on the charger all night every night). My Nexus 4 and Nexus 6P were really bad here... my Pixel 2XL has been pretty good on battery life still after about a year now. I think it was mostly immature technology adopted relatively early. There have been advances in battery tech, and it takes time to work kinks out.
coldtea 8y ago
>Yes, it's a factor of the new changes, but let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones, and then hiding much of that by slowing your iPhone down. Compared to what available and suitable miraculous technology?

by mtgx 8y ago

micv 8y ago

> let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones As far as I can tell this simply isn't true. My iPhone SE is at 89% of maximum capacity after 2.5 years of very regular use. It's standing up pretty well.

tracker1 8y ago
I think in general a lot of batteries in mobile devices for a couple years dropped off dramatically if charging to full regularly (ex: on the charger all night every night). My Nexus 4 and Nexus 6P were really bad here... my Pixel 2XL has been pretty good on battery life still after about a year now. I think it was mostly immature technology adopted relatively early. There have been advances in battery tech, and it takes time to work kinks out.

coldtea 8y ago

>Yes, it's a factor of the new changes, but let's not forget it's primarily a factor of Apple using batteries that lose a significant percentage of their capacity after 2 years in the iPhones, and then hiding much of that by slowing your iPhone down. Compared to what available and suitable miraculous technology?