I am convinced that Microsoft has done this to their old operating systems by sending “updates” that cause the system to run poorly so that you will be induced to upgrade.
solution - spend $80 and get a new battery.
Newsflash: battery life is not a constant! After 500 cycles they lose capacity.
Buddy of mine still uses an iPhone 1. Never upgraded. Still works fine.
Common guys... It’s a feature!
Filthy animals!
So ends the iPhone era.
I suspect they did the same to older iPads. I have two iPads, one of the older iPad 4 with the larger charging port and a new thin iPad. At some point there was an update and the old iPad slowed to a crawl on the internet. The apps worked fine but surfing the net became all but impossible.
Altruistic: Apple definition, greed, method of screwing buyers, built in obsolescence.
I'm good.
What if a car company purposely made your car more inefficient every time brought it in for service?
Apple does not own my phone. I purchased it. They are crippling my personal property. This is a blatantly dishonest business practice and I hope Apple gets slapped with a huge class action lawsuit.
If it was a legitimate practice to protect older phone’s battery, then it should be an option in the System Settings to enable or disable it.
Apple is just following the MS marketing plan used for decades.
It doesn’t take something like this to cause folks to mistrust Apple.
It’s almost a religion in some non-Apple users.
Apple ain’t perfect. Guess what. None of the other companies are either.
With technology increasing as it is, there’s two options. Watch older phones become obsolete, or limit the improvements on new phones.
The earlier iPhones were great in their day. We have to upgrade from time to time. Who knew?
I remember what I was using in the mid 1980s. Hey, I thought those were great phones too.
My iPhone X makes them look like waxed cups and ten feet of string. No, make that five feet.
Replaceable batteries would be nice....
Here we go again...
”My understanding is that, if a particularly processor-intensive task, such as a complex photo filter, caused a significant spike in power demand, an older battery unable to meet that demand could prompt a shutdown. So, by improving the advanced battery management in iOS 10.2.1, Apple has reduced the likelihood of that happening.So it was announced and explained and it was NOT a general system wide device slowdown as the creator of Geek Bench is mistakenly announcing because his Geek Bench Testing actually TRIGGERS the exact condition that will create a peak draw, necessitating the thing he’s looking to find!— PING!
Batteries do age with time and charge cycles, though. To help with awareness, Apple is adding a service notice to Settings > Battery in iOS 10.2.1. It's similar to the one already in place on the Mac. Anyone with a particularly weak battery who still experiences the issue should contact AppleCare.
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Die, corporate scum.