I firmly believe this issue is the result of incompetence by some Apple engineers and not some grand conspiracy to force devices to be unusable. If Apple had included the code in iOS to begin with the argument would have a little more weight, but ultimately the throttling was implemented after multiple users complained of unexpected shutdowns. This was a bandaid fix to a flawed design. For whatever unknown reason the iPhone 6 and later need more voltage than the battery can supply under normal operating conditions when the battery is only slightly degraded. If Apple was planning on "encouraging" upgrades they certainly could have found a much better way to do so.
Design flaw, eh? Is that what you call it when your aging car battery won't crank in winter (or summer)? No? How come that's not a design flaw but this is? Same problem.
Ridiculous comparison - a garage/manufacturer will tell you to change the battery. Apple didn't, they don't tell you anything technical about the phone really - so for most it just seemed like the phone "as a whole" was slowing down with no other option than to upgrade. The only user-friendly option of wiping and reloading a fresh iOS made no difference. Several months later, many have now found out that a $29 service would have cured all the issues instead of an $800 upgrade and are rightfully a little bit pissed off.
I don't think it was "planned obsolesce" as charged but it's certainly a major error not to make the customer more aware and has led to what we have today.
We got rid of 2x 6Ss because of the slowness, had I known what I know now I would certainly have held onto them and had the batteries serviced - if anything even to improve resell value, I honestly sold my 6S noting the slowness and crashing issues getting less than market value at the time.
Ridiculous comparison - a garage/manufacturer will tell you to change the battery. Apple didn't, they don't tell you anything technical about the phone really - so for most it just seemed like the phone "as a whole" was slowing down with no other option than to upgrade. The only user-friendly option of wiping and reloading a fresh iOS made no difference. Several months later, many have now found out that a $29 service would have cured all the issues instead of an $800 upgrade and are rightfully a little bit pissed off.
Apple always provided battery tests and info about what the life expectancy of the battery was (500 charge cycles/80% capacity). Is there something unusual about that charge/capacity rating vs. the rest of the industry? No. And unless your battery met those replacement requirements, it's unlikely that changing the battery would do anything other than increase capacity. Troubleshooting steps that don't involve the battery are more likely to work if the battery isn't due to be replaced. There's nothing misleading or uninformative about that.
Wouldn’t old phones that suddenly shut down be more likely to prompt a new phone purchase? This software management is more likely to enable people to limp along with the old phone that little bit longer
No sir. When shutdown happens, user have clear indication whats wrong. In warranty, after warranty go for new battery. Done.
But, what to do with slow phone? Go for new one because at time nobody knows nothing about real issue. I don’t think that’s planned obsolescence, but sh..y customer service it is.
You would think that no iPhone owner had ever used Google to, you know, search to find out why his iPhone had slowed down or was failing
Reading thru some discussion threads there's days I'm convinced almost no one uses Google to, you know, search up a few facts before posting.
Ridiculous comparison - a garage/manufacturer will tell you to change the battery. Apple didn't, they don't tell you anything technical about the phone really - so for most it just seemed like the phone "as a whole" was slowing down with no other option than to upgrade. The only user-friendly option of wiping and reloading a fresh iOS made no difference. Several months later, many have now found out that a $29 service would have cured all the issues instead of an $800 upgrade and are rightfully a little bit pissed off.
Apple always provided battery tests and info about what the life expectancy of the battery was (500 charge cycles/80% capacity). Is there something unusual about that charge/capacity rating vs. the rest of the industry? No. And unless your battery met those replacement requirements, it's unlikely that changing the battery would do anything other than increase capacity. Troubleshooting steps that don't involve the battery are more likely to work if the battery isn't due to be replaced. There's nothing misleading or uninformative about that.
Throtling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1 specificly for 6s, after unsuccessful recall. it was January 2017. So roughly 120 days old iphone 6s on that day has to be fully charged/discharged 4 times a day every single day after purchase. Really? Really? Math is powerfull.
Ridiculous comparison - a garage/manufacturer will tell you to change the battery. Apple didn't, they don't tell you anything technical about the phone really - so for most it just seemed like the phone "as a whole" was slowing down with no other option than to upgrade. The only user-friendly option of wiping and reloading a fresh iOS made no difference. Several months later, many have now found out that a $29 service would have cured all the issues instead of an $800 upgrade and are rightfully a little bit pissed off.
Apple always provided battery tests and info about what the life expectancy of the battery was (500 charge cycles/80% capacity). Is there something unusual about that charge/capacity rating vs. the rest of the industry? No. And unless your battery met those replacement requirements, it's unlikely that changing the battery would do anything other than increase capacity. Troubleshooting steps that don't involve the battery are more likely to work if the battery isn't due to be replaced. There's nothing misleading or uninformative about that.
Throtling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1 specificly for 6s, after unsuccessful recall. it was January 2017. So roughly 120 days old iphone 6s on that day has to be fully charged/discharged 4 times a day every single day after purchase. Really? Really? Math is powerfull.
I guess you got the launch year of iPhone 6s/6s Plus wrong. Even an average user who bought the iPhone 6s in Sep-30-2015 would have easily went through 500 charge cycles by the time iOS 10.2.1 was introduced in Jan-2017. A heavy user who charges his/her iPhone 6s twice a day would have gone through even 1000 charge cycles.
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I don't think it was "planned obsolesce" as charged but it's certainly a major error not to make the customer more aware and has led to what we have today.
We got rid of 2x 6Ss because of the slowness, had I known what I know now I would certainly have held onto them and had the batteries serviced - if anything even to improve resell value, I honestly sold my 6S noting the slowness and crashing issues getting less than market value at the time.
Throtling was introduced in iOS 10.2.1 specificly for 6s, after unsuccessful recall. it was January 2017. So roughly 120 days old iphone 6s on that day has to be fully charged/discharged 4 times a day every single day after purchase. Really? Really? Math is powerfull.
I guess you got the launch year of iPhone 6s/6s Plus wrong. Even an average user who bought the iPhone 6s in Sep-30-2015 would have easily went through 500 charge cycles by the time iOS 10.2.1 was introduced in Jan-2017. A heavy user who charges his/her iPhone 6s twice a day would have gone through even 1000 charge cycles.