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.

Comments

So will apple start servicing batteries then?

[NumbDr9]

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.

Re:So will apple start servicing batteries then?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand why you wouldn't just tell them to stop talking and service the fucking battery. Were you scared or intimidated somehow? Do they have pictures of you with your mistress?

Re:Good of them, I suppose.

[sycodon]

Just wait. People will turn it off, and then be right back to bitching when the phone suddenly dumps because the battery is dead.

They'll complain anyway

[Rick Schumann]

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?

Silly silly

[Mr_Silver]

As part of the new iOS 11.3 update, iPhone users will get a recommendation if a battery needs to be serviced

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.