ivanh

Good job Roger. It’s the first article I saw talking about the Battery-Throttling-Gate that involves iPhone 6 Plus.  

While all friends of mine holding iPhone 6 Plus encounter severe throttling in UI (user interface) speed, only some of them found CPU frequency slowdown as shown in CPU DasherX app, and some of them encountered dropdown in benchmark as shown in Geekbench 4 app.  Most of the the iPhone 6 Plus have battery capacity as strong as over 90%, or even fully charged and still being connected to charging sources, but still slowed down! Restarting those iPhones 6 Plus didn’t help regaining UI speed. Only UI speed is throttled and it induces dis-satisfaction that urges my friends to “upgrade” to iPhone 8 Plus it iPhone X.

While new versions of iOS and Xcode “optimise” for the latest iPhone models every year, it may also imply that new versions of iOS and Xcode may deoptimized for older iPhones and other iOS devices selectively.  Some processes can be run on Multi-Core instead of Single-Core, if Apple wants to “re-optimise” / “revitalise” older iPhone models.

Besides, Apple should be responsible for providing security updates for iOS 10, iOS9 & iOS 8, though new features are for iOS 11 and later, if Apple really does not have any intention for “planned obsolescence “.

saltyzip said:

I can't understand how people can defend apple in this situation, if they had been transparent about the problem then there wouldn't have been an investigation into this and outrage post factual results. 

There Are None So Blind

As Those Who Will Not See

Transparency / honesty is suitable only for those innocent people.  Denial is for those who say "catch me if you can"!

1. Capacity depleted up to 20% of design should not fail to deliver peak power required by the iPhone;

2. Running down to 30% energy left after a full charge will still provide peak power required by any iPhone;

3. Not mentioned by any battery-gate article editors that all lithium-ion batteries have their own circuit processors managing the batteries. It should not be the iOS business to throttle it.

4. iOS should not “assume” all batteries of the same age depleting at the same rate by the iPhone model, iOS version or the time-stamp of the battery on the iPhone and throttle the iPhones accordingly!

StrangeDays said:

ivanh said:

Sorry Mike, I know that your intention in writing this article is to help Apple to contain damages. But,
1. Apple slows down my iPhone 6 Plus (it) from 1400MHz to 936MHz randomly, while no app was running (besides CPU DasherX with which used to show the CPU speed). It was in room temperature, i.e. not in “extremely cold” temperature, but it was getting hot by itself that trigger me to test it.
2. The iPhone 6 Plus is only 10 months old and the battery condition is 94% as revealed by coconutBattery app when connected to a Mac.
3. Throttling happens too when the iPhone 6 Plus is attached to a 2.1A Apple original charging source.
4. All my family members and many friends with iPhone 6 Plus experience speed throttling more severe than iPhone 6s.
So, all of the battery myth told by Apple and you, fail to give an explanation why my iPhone 6 Plus has been throttled!

Being slow isn’t the same as throttling peak power draw. 

Dunno DasherX but it sounds like an app. 

Accusing Mike of working for Apple PR reveals you to be cluelessly paranoid. 

Mike replied and stated that he has no connection to Apple.  I trust him at this stage.  Being paranoid? Maybe, because I lost the chance of taking good pictures at my daughter's graduation ceremony, coincide that my iPhone 6 Plus was throttled down to unusable!  It resumes normal after a few days, after Tim publicly apologised.

applesnoranges said:

Very informative. Thanks 😉

It's misleading and de tour the attention that other iPhones and other reasons of throttling down the performance.