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>It turns out that "high demand" scenarios that cause the phone to crash can be triggered by mundane actions like taking photos. If you disallow throttling by l
by wycy 8y ago
>It turns out that "high demand" scenarios that cause the phone to crash can be triggered by mundane actions like taking photos. If you disallow throttling by law, old devices will just crash all the time.
This was what Apple apologists said when this issue first came to light, but hasn't Apple already shot its own excuse in the foot? iOS 11.3/12.0 came out, removing the throttles, and I haven't seen anything about a rash of phones all constantly shutting off now.
- garmaine 8y agoBecause allegedly those updates ALSO fixed the underlying software performance issues so the hardware wasn't taxed so hard.
- wycy 8y agoThat argument could possibly be made for iOS 12, but not for iOS 11.3.
- jamesgeck0 8y agoYou had to manually disable it. There was a little bit of wiggle room so maybe your iPhone faired better. But from personal experience on 11.3, if the battery capacity was below a certain amount the phone would just suddenly shut down on a fairly regular basis.
- dwaite 8y agoHow do you mean? The throttling* is still entirely there, you just now have an option to say specifically in the detected battery fault cases "please just have my phone turn off or crash rather than having it continue to function (but slower)". AFAICT, this switch won't affect throttling in other cases, such as near/sub-freezing temperatures. * this is a pretty complex issue; "throttling" isn't even a great term once you actually start to understand how the power management works