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“Completed in real time, the casual evaluation pits an iPhone with original hardware on the left against the same handset with a fresh battery on the right. Sorbo does not specify whether the battery replacement procedure was performed by Apple or a third party, but the results do reveal a marked improvement in performance, both in real world use and synthetic testing.”
The iPhone 6s is shown running through a number of various CPU-intensive tasks like opening apps, browsing the web, playing games and videos, and finally chewing through a Geekbench benchmark test. The device clocked single-core Geekbench score of 1437 points and a multi-core score of 2485 with its original battery, while with a new battery, it clocked scores of 2520 and 4412 respectively.
Check out the video below demonstrating Apple’s iOS battery management feature in action.
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Apple should be replacing the phones, not the batteries. What a scam.
Huh? How so – so should android replace all phones it stops supporting after 2 years?
Apple still sells new iPhone 6s models. They are not all 2 years old. Also, the problem is that the affected phones start having problems within a year, not 2 years.
Not true. The phones affected are with old degraded batteries, at which point performance is throttled back. New battery restores original performance. And doesn’t happen in first year.
No, that’s the whole point! Apple says “Your battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles” The problem is that BEFORE 500 cycles, the defective phones can’t handle the NORMAL degradation of the batty. The NORMAL degradation that all other phones DO handle. Nobody is talking about batteries that have gone past 500 cycles.
Where do you see this? Your post is the first I have read about any of this before batteries are dead….if what you said was true then replacing the battery would do nothing cause the phone is defective and not the battery.
Just google around and you’ll find lots of people complaining of being throttled soon after replacing their batteries. Since Apple refuses to reveal at how many cycles its software starts slowing the 6, 6s and 7 series iPhones, or whether they look for a voltage drop or what, we can only go by what users report. Some report their in warranty iPhones only throttle when their batteries are less than 50% charged. Some say they are throttled at all charge levels. Some say their phones are very old and are not throttled at all. What is clear is that there is a design flaw WITH THE IPHONES in dealing with natural wear of the included batteries. The phones would just randomly shut down after a certain amount of wear – the same amount of wear that NEVER causes other phones to spontainiously shut down. They fixed the issue in the iPhone 8 and X but, of course, don’t wish to fix the issue in the affected phones because it would be costly.
Here’s the thing that most people are missing – Apple advertised the iPhone 6, for example, as being 20% faster in general performance than the iPhone 5s and 50% faster in graphics than the iPhone 5s. Because they secretly slowed the phones down, these speed claims become lies. Also known as false advertising.
And in case you’re thinking that Apple actually wants to be transparent and helpful, read this quote from a developer of a battery monitoring app:
“Until now there was no public API for developers to retrieve battery data such as cycles, battery health, or charger information such as actual charging current and whether or not the device is actually charging. The data was actually available, but was not officially made available by Apple.
Many apps (including my own Battery Health which was removed from the App Store by Apple a while ago) took advantage of this information. There are still several apps on the App Store that utilize it.
Unfortunately, with iOS 10 Apple has decided to completely hide this information from the end-users (even though this info has been available on iOS devices since pretty much day 1) and with iOS 10 it is no longer available to anyone. 🙁 ”
You see and accept only what you want to see.This the first example of how Apple is either manufacturing, engineering poorly functional phones or intentionally defrauding consumers.
My iPhone 6’s battery has been replaced at the end of the 2 year Apple Care, it’s now been just over a year and I have been dealing with the throttling for months so yeah the problem occurs within a year!
My iPhone 6+ is 3 years old, battery health is approx. 86%. Noticed slow down after iOs11 upgrade few months ago. Offered battery replacement for $35. Why would I replace the phone? Nonsense.
You shouldn’t need to replace your phone. Apple should be replacing your phone. Your battery is aging normally. Most phones don’t have a problem with a normally aging battery, but the defective iPhone models do. This isn’t rocket science guys.
Look, if Sony sold you a TV and it was working great for a couple of years, but suddenly would shut itself off if you watched any channels lower than channel 20, you’d be mad. Then if Sony secretly updated your TV so you were no longer able to watch channel 20 and under, would you say “Sony had to do it – it was for our own good” or would you say hey Sony, how come the Samsung TVs get all the channels just fine after a few years, but my Sony doesn’t. And then Sony says, oh my bad. Look just pay us $35 and you can have your channels back. Would you praise Sony for being so good to you? Or would you say, hey Sony why are WE paying YOU for YOUR design flaw since you advertised it’s compatible with all the channels.
Oranges and …Apples). I’m not crazy Apple fan who would blindly cover any wrong doing of the famous tech giant. At the same time I’m not going to neat-pick either. What I’m saying is, that in my particular case, my iphone is not malfunctioning, but getting a bit slow while handling an upgraded iOs and certain apps. But again – it is almost 4 years old and was used daily quite extensively. There was NO dramatical loss in the performance, even though Apple admitted their morose practice of intentional slowing down…Idk – may be I’m just kucky with my phone?
Should I scream high heaven because of the fact that initialization of a few (upgraded!) apps takes 1-2 sec. longer than 3.5 years ago? Really?… Demand new phone? Laughable. The way I see it, I’ll replace the only noticeably degraded part in my iphone – the battery. What is more – I’ll do that for a fraction of the price. Other than that -I’ll probably skip at least two more models and keep using my iPhone 6+ with NEW battery.
I agree an iPhone 6+ with a new battery is fine. Nothing much worth upgrading to. But that’s besides the point – Apple sold a product advertising a certain speed and then secretly lowered it so that it no longer reflected what they promised. You want to allow that kind of behavior of companies you buy from? You want to excuse false advertising? Why? Because it’s Apple?
C’mon, don’t try to put words in my mouth – I certainly wont condone any false advertising, regardless of the source. I’m just trying to be reasonable here. I don’t think that they ever promised everlasting, fixed level of performance from any of their product. There is no such a thing and no company would do such a suicidal promise. Objectively, your new phone WILL maintain advertised level of performance for a certain period of time. But with progression in software complexity and rising demand on the calculation power (and it happens really fast!), how could you expect the same level of “advertised performance” and speed from the aging hardware? It makes no sense.
I don’t think that it was some evil conspiracy from Apple to prolong the life of the older iphones. The bad thing is that they didn’t make it publicly transparent or a matter of customer’s choice. All together made this story look really nasty.
No one is talking about the typical occurrence in the industry in which phones get slower after an OS upgrade. I thought you had read the article. This is about Apple slowing down phones ON PURPOSE. Nothing to do with “progression in software complexity and rising demand on the calculation power” it’s about trying to secretly cover up a design defect. I don’t know what else to tell you other than read the articles about it.
And the way false advertising works is if you publicly declare your phones a specific percentage faster than the previous generation, then the phones are expected to be as advertised. If they’re not, then it’s false advertising. Just watch the keynotes of any of the affected phones – they specifically say how much faster their new phones are than their previous phones.
If you bought a Porsche and they advertised 0 to 60 in 2.7 seconds then you expect that. If Porsche secretly came into your garage and changed it to 3.6 seconds, then you might say, hey! I paid a lot of money to get a car that can do the 2.7 seconds you advertised! Now my car accelerates as fast as a Civic. This is false advertising. I don’t care if it’s Apple or Rogers or whatever company – if they lie to me and get to keep the profits of their lies, I’m going to call them out on it. It’s up to us to keep them honest. Don’t let them walk all over you or they’ll keep doing it.
Well, I read the article. Did you read my previous post? I don’t think I have to repeat myself – it looks like waste of time. Your Porsche/Civic comparison vs Apple iphone speeds is ridiculous and makes no sense in terms of hardware/software integration and aging. Please don’t.
Anyway, I’m not convinced that the whole show for their key notes claims re: higher speeds in the newer models are solely based on their dirty tricks with “purposeful slowing” down of the CPU in “older” models. In my particular case, I have never seen ANY kind of software throttling with upgrading to the newer iOs. CPU Actual Clock was ALWAYS equal to CPU Max Clock(1.4 Ghz for iphone 6+) – as measured with Lirum Device Info. However (I have to repeat myself here), the VERY FIRST TIME I noticed slower performance was after iOS 11 upgrade. Why it didn’t happen with EVERY iOS update, if, as you claim, the only way 4 them to reach higher speeds, was the “slow-down-CPU-trick” in the previous model? It didn’t happen and this is one of the reasons why I don’t buy new iphone every year (like some “trendy dudes” do). CPU clock was the same – 1.4Ghz. The only hardware flow – battery actual was 2500 mAh vs designed Max of 2915 mAh. So may be, there is something else, besides old battery, that might slow down 3.5 years old iphone? Hmmm…May be ““progression in software complexity and rising demand on the calculation power””?
Dude, it’s not a conspiracy theory; Apple admitted to doing it after being caught.
LOL…Admitted what exactly? Dude, your “false advertising” hysteria has nothing to do with what they actually admitted. Study it again, for God sake…
Don’t know why you add “hysteria” to false advertising. False advertising is false advertising. It was not a mistake since they admitted to slowing down the phones. Their advertising and small print says nothing about reserving the right to secretly slow down phones, but it does say something about the speed of their phones relative to others. Where am I losing you?
They have a 1 year warranty – clearly written.
If people looked at all the other things they have that degrade over time, they would realize that this phone situation is not the only one.
Technically, I don’t think they are liable to do anything if the phone is out of warranty.
The problem occurs within the warranty period.
Words of a true Apple fanbois or stock holder
If you get a replacement battery with Apple, make sure that it is actually replaced. After waiting a few weeks for mine to arrive (you can order them in advance0, I went to Sherway Gardens to replace it, and came back to see that the battery was still draining too fast. I checked with CoconutBattery, and the battery had had 391 cycles. Clearly, the same old battery. I might have been unlucky, but i suspect that there’s so much pressure in their supply that they’re cutting corners. At least Apple is now sending me a replacement phone (they never confirmed or denied that the battery had never been replaced…).
Good to know. My battery just arrived to our local Apple store. Will visit them tomorrow.