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It’s reported that people believe Apple did things, never with any actual, you know, proof.
The biggest problems either performance with old phones is that folks don’t understand how batteries degrade over time and attribute that to some sort of malice from companies like Apple.
I’m all for complaining about the dangers of unfettered capitalism, but stupid Apple conspiracy theories make yall look silly.
Batterygate: This issue gained significant attention in 2017 when Apple admitted to throttling the performance of older iPhones with degraded batteries, beginning with iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 11.2. This, Apple said, was intended to prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging batteries, not to drain the battery itself. The more cynical took it to be a deliberate action to encourage upgrading (and to enhance the perception of upgrading) by crippling their product.
Their original letter is no longer available on Apple’s site so here’s a link to a Reddit post about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/bdv3zk/comment/el126j7/
I had one of those old phones and it was preferable to have slower performance overall as opposed to seemingly random shutdowns. In reality the shutdowns were directly related to when the cpu was drawing more current than the battery could provide often on websites that had tons of client side scripting.
So before the update I’d be browsing the web and my shit would just shut off and after it would run little slower but stay on.
Iirc they ended up improving the battery management software so it would maximize battery life and suggest when it was time to have it replaced.
This is 100% right. Shocked you aren’t being down voted into oblivion for not jumping on the anti Apple circle jerk.