Apple says they've been intentionally slowing the performance of older iPhones

[JordanWearinThe45]

You're not alone if you've noticed a slowdown in the performance of your older iPhone. The thing is, it may be more related to your battery than the phone itself. After a post on Reddit and a followup by benchmarking software Geekbench's founder, Apple told TechCrunch that it released a fix for premature shutdowns last year for iPhone 6, 6s and SE by smoothing out CPU demand when a battery is older, cold, or just low on juice. Apple also said that it recently extended this slowdown feature to iPhone 7devices running iOS 11.2, and plans to "add support for other products in the future."

A couple of weeks ago, Reddit user TeckFire ran some CPU benchmarks (via Geekbench) on his iPhone 6 Plus before and after he replaced its battery. He found that CPU performance was significantly better after a battery replacement, which he attributed to Apple slowing down phones with low capacity batteries. A week later, Geekbench's own John Poole wrote a postthat pointed to Apple's involvement. In essence, Poole says that Apple introduced code to iOS that limits iPhone performance when battery charge is low, which could be interpreted as a CPU issue leading to users replacing their iPhone instead of their battery. While this may not be Apple's intent in this case, it's not hard to see users being confused and blaming the company for planned obsolescence practices, especially as Apple benefits from user confusion and iPhone upgrades.

Apple says slower performance of older iPhones is intentional

If my battery is ass dont slow my shyt down making my battery AND phone performance ass. Let my battery be trash, give me choice!

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Buy Iphones brehs....

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Every new iPhone is faster than the last brehs #jobsgang

 

[Rekkapryde]

I knew I wasn't going crazy

 

[Rekkapryde]

Class action lawsuit on the way

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

Meanwhile the Pixel 2 been for a while and my Pixel 1 has gotten BETTER after updates

 

[Redguard]

I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung and other companies are doing the same stuff.

 

[Ciggavelli]

Yup, I read that yesterday. They say it’s to compensate for weakening batteries, but they’re really on their shyt

 

[Family Lives Matter]

B b b be but apple is the best phone

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

Class action lawsuit on the way

We finna

 

[O.G.B]

I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung and other companies are doing the same stuff.

Apple has a long history of misleading & taking advantage of it's customers, so don't blame Samsung because you're getting ganked!

 

[Redguard]

Apple has a long history of misleading & taking advantage of it's customers, so don't blame Samsung because you're getting ganked!

I have never owned an iPhone.

I'm not even a fan of Apple products.

 

[The Guru]

Iphone 7 batteries are so old that they need this now ? A one year old battery on a 1000 dollar phone?

 

[O.G.B]

I have never owned an iPhone.

I'm not even a fan of Apple products.

Then STFU & quit slandering Samsung's name by making stupid comparisons without any facts.

 

[el_oh_el]

Make sure y’all get the entire context. The rollout was pushed only on recent iOS editions and this happens to prevent the phone from cold rebooting when the battery can not provide the needed voltage to cover cpu usage spike. It was said that they were able to prevent 80 percent of cold reboots just by having this implemented. All the other cases before are still likely attributed to increased software demand on older devices.
I will say that this would not happen if the batteries were user replaceable, nor is failing to tell customers that they should soon replace their battery a good move.