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> assuming all their older devices were in the same state or had the same use cases. Replaced your phone battery recently? Who cares, you go slow anyway Sorry
by deergomoo 6y ago
> assuming all their older devices were in the same state or had the same use cases. Replaced your phone battery recently? Who cares, you go slow anyway
Sorry to be nitpicky, but this is actually not the case.
The whole reason this was initially discovered was because someone on reddit ran Geekbench before and after a battery replacement and got a huge performance increase. Not telling users is inexcusable, but phones where the battery was fully functional continued to run at full speed regardless of age.
> You still can't trust them
On this point I 100% agree!
- _carbyau_ 6y agoWith yourself and a coincidental comment making such reasonable corrections I investigated further. Posted below for posterity, not necessarily you. The reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/7inu45/psa_iphone_slow_try_replacing_your_battery/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/7inu45/psa_iphone_s... Finally, from the horses mouth:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387 "iOS 11.3 and later improve this performance management feature" and "iPhone 8 and later use a more advanced hardware and software ..[snip].. As a result, the impacts of performance management may be less noticeable on iPhone 8 and later." My conclusion: It is true that Apple was only targeting phones with dodgy(to a degree of approximation) batteries. OTOH, Apple does a better job now. Both in execution and communication. Whether Apple would have reached this achievement without batterygate is unknowable. My apologies for spreading misinformation, thank you for your patience. Edit:snipped some bits for conciseness.