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Repair shop owner here...that throttling is typically caused by an older battery. Putting a new battery in the phone revives its performance. One of the tests
by ericabiz 8y ago
Repair shop owner here...that throttling is typically caused by an older battery. Putting a new battery in the phone revives its performance.
One of the tests I run when a customer brings an older iPhone in is to open the camera. We had a customer with an iPhone 6 where the camera would take 20-30 seconds to open. After we replaced her battery, it opened in a second or two.
- copperx 8y agoI thought that throttling in iOS 12 could be disabled through the software, under Settings.
- ericabiz 8y agoYou can, but the whole point of throttling was that iPhone 6s with older batteries were shutting down randomly, particularly in cold temperatures. The batteries were not able to deliver the voltage the phone required, and as a safety measure the phone just shut down. Apple introduced throttling to combat the random shutdowns. Of course, Apple being Apple, they did a remarkably poor job of explaining all of this. It took them until people filed lawsuits to introduce their "battery health indicator", and even now people don't really understand that slow performance can often be fixed by a new battery.
- anoncoward111 8y agoOnly issue is that the price of a battery replacement is the same as my Zone 4, and I am enjoying the objectively better hardware. Plus, I am biased against apple's ecosystem, but this is more subjective and has to do with my lack of dependence on iOS exclusives. Thanks for the insight!!!
- readhn 8y agobattery replacement on an iphone from what i have seen is a 30-50$ part and 30min of your time with a screwdriver.