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Apple Will Soon Let Users Turn Off its iPhone-slowing Software (cnet.com)
Following an uproar from customers last month, Apple on Wednesday said it's adding a feature to its latest iOS update that will let customers turn off software that slows down their iPhones. From a report: Apple in December revealed that it released software a year earlier that makes your phone run more slowly to prevent problems with its aging lithium ion battery, such as unexpected shutdowns. As part of the new iOS 11.3 update, iPhone users will get a recommendation if a battery needs to be serviced. Plus, they will be able to see if the power management feature that slows the phone's performance is on and can choose to turn it off, the company said Wednesday.
Every time I've taken an iphone into an apple store and requested battery service, they have come up with an excuse not to do it. They instead heavily pushing me to exchange for a refurbished phone of the same model. If Apple is going to start telling people when their batteries need to be serviced, maybe they will actually start servicing batteries.
Of course, the real question is: why didn't they do this when they put the slowdown software in in the first place? Treating your customers like milk cows makes it harder, not easier, to sell next-generation hardware.
Isn't this statement about week old now ?
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/17/turn-off-iphone-battery-performance-throttling/
I use an iPhone. Iâ(TM)ll be happy to have some indication of battery life besides guessing by its age. Most laptops have a soft of âoebattery life leftâ software. (Not to be confused with battery time left for use on this charge. I may or may not turn off the speed slowing options. Sometimes Iâ(TM)d rather my phone stay turned than wait an extra 5 seconds, especially if something important comes up and Iâ(TM)m not near a charger.
Keep dreaming... If you repeat a lie often enough, maybe it will somehow become true...
Will GM, Ford and Fiat, issue a patch that kills the engine instead of reducing the performance when the octane isn't high enough? What could go wrong?
They use their bogus power management tweak on iOS 10, but it looks like they're not going to go back and fix that version. There's lots of us that they'll have still applied their crooked deal to.
Now they will blamed for allowed phones to crash on a regular basis.
they are doing you a favor. Most phones have more than one thing wrong. If your battery is that used then the phone is well used too. it probably has an abraded lens cover making your photos foggy in harsh light, it probably has lint in the speakers, it probably has some dents and scratches too. If you are going to shell out $120 for a new battery then for a $100 more you could get a whole new-to-you phone. It's a steal from nearly every apple owners point of view. For a few people maybe not. And they can take it to the shop down the street and get the battery changed for $75 instead if the cost is prohibitive.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Making cell phone batteries non-removable is the problem. When my wife hiked the Appalachian Trail she took an old phone with a replaceable battery and a second $7 generic battery she could swap out. (A external battery pack is very inefficient, would have weighed well over 10x as much to get one recharge, as well as costing more.)
I wonder when car-makers are going to build non-user-replaceable batteries into the engine? They are missing big profits in making the battery a $2000 dealer-only replaceable item...
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I wonder if the next version will have a state-of-the-art, cutting-edge feature, of a user-replacable battery...
Let some of the slow down software be the bloody gif/emote reaction box that's been added to SMS. I do not need it!
They'll turn it off, then complain about their battery life being shitty and sue Apple for that. Never mind that the feature existed to keep the phone operating as long as possible with the battery capacity it has. Sure, who needs power management, right? Just run everything balls-out all the time and who cares if your phone only runs for 15 minutes before dying, right?
That's what people are saying.
Show me a 3 dimensional plot on number of charges vs capacity with the battery level before charge as a color gradient and the other 2 dimensions on x and y.
OR, tell me look man it's like you were painting then sandblasting a piece of aluminum over and over every time you charged and discharged it. If you were to use a massive sandblaster you'd get the paint of quicker each time but you'd probably eat up a little bit more aluminum each time as well. If you polished it you'd probably take years to remove any aluminum, granted you'd only get about 2 paint removals per year. Either way eventually the size of that piece of aluminum is going to shrink and there's gonna be less "capacity".
Then as apple you'd have justification in saying, what we are really doing is extending the use of your current battery. The tradeoff is that it's going to slow things down because we need to slow down the energy draw.
That seems a lot better than fighting about nothing and wasting time with everything else just because you are unable to see how different people understand the same god damned thing.
Keep watching, Trump could be grilled under a hot light by next week if he keeps trying to fire the FBI directors. Better get your ass cleaned for prison, bitch.
I'm not an Apple defender. I only own one Apple product, an old Macbook I borrowed.
I have a Motorola 360 Smart Watch - first generation. When the battery got old, it began shutting down at anything below about 30% battery capacity. This was often provoked by any action that would turn the screen on - a significant battery draw - along with extra radio and processor operation.. I wonder if Apple was trying to prevent this issue by reducing processor power draw. I might have appreciated a similar feature that made my Moto 360 more useful as the battery got weaker.
Of course this would also cause sluggish performance which would also motivate users to upgrade to the latest and greatest H/W.
This would certainly save on recharging...
As soon as your battery is empty, get Apple o putt in a new, partially charged battery.
Why dos Apple have to turn off the slowing?
Haven't people always been able to remove the Facebook App themselves?
The only ones going to prison are the DNC/DOJ/FBI conspirators who have now been exposed as planting Russia Collusion evidence, then using that âoeopposition researchâ as basis for a FISA 702 to spy on political opposition HQ during an election. This is Watergate x 100.
They tried to talk me out of it, too, citing some environmental reasons. Don't buy it: tell them you know corporate's publicly-available policy and insist.
The silly thing is that if they'd actually done this the day they implemented the throttling (thereby being upfront and honest about it) then there probably wouldn't have been any uproar.
Yet again, it's Apple's reluctance to share anything but the bare minimum with their customers (who then go on to make assumptions about their motives) which has bitten them on the backside.
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Go on, attack the FBI, they're amused by you silly Putinbitches lol. You're a dumb faggot on an iphone in Russia, stay tuned for live updates on Trump going to prison over the next 6 months you bitches hahahaaaaa.
I wonder if this means Apple will learn from this and stop making fundamental changes to existing devices without first notifying it's users.
*pfff*BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, I tried to keep a straight face... I really did.
...Customers have a filed a class action lawsuit claiming "They allowed me to turn off the feature that prevented my phone from lighting on fire while playing Candy Crush, now all I have is 3rd degree burns, and no way to play Candy Crush!".
Fuck you, too.
I read about this update just the other day, and I got to wondering "I wonder how aged the battery is in my 3 year old iPhone 6?" So I grabbed a copy of CoconutBattery and gave it a spin. Much to my surprise, after more than 900 charging cycles, my battery was nearly 90% of the original design capacity!
I could understand cranking up the power management to the extreme if my phone's battery was in really bad shape, or disabling certain features that won't run really well on an older device. But according to CB, my battery was surprisingly new-like all things considered. So this just leaves me feeling more certain that the slowdown was caused by more than simply my battery's health.
Apple doesn't use glue, per se, anymore (they use adhesive strips that are similar to the 3M "Command" adhesive)
In other words, after saving the world from the DOS prompt back in 1984, Apple is back to using the DOS prompt.
[Shutdowns due to power fluctuation from an aging battery] is a bug that came in out of band that we didn't plan for in sprint planning.
Then why wasn't it planned for in AT&T planning?
So they say it's because of an old battery, the phone reboots.
Why then do we not see random reboots on every older phone that's using Lithium ion batteries?
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