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OT : Apple throttles CPU on iPhone 6s when battery gets old
A bit off topic ,but since there are users here using their 6s iPhone for music production I thought it would b interesting.
In summary ,if the battery gets old ,it seems Apple reduces CPU speed after iOS 10.2 . When replacing the battery ,performance gets back to normal.
It may be interesting to check this on iPads too.
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Thanks @Korakios seems like I'm eligible for a battery replacement!
Wouldn't plugging in your device solve the need to throttle?
The 6s Plus has a larger battery so I’m assuming this reduction by Apple wouldn’t apply?
Nope, the device always takes voltage from the battery ,not the charger.
There are free apps / tools that users run to check if they are affected . The 5s is not.
Unfortunately can't test it on my Air 2 ,since iOS 11 is needed .
Edit , it seems 6plus is affected too .
@korakios I understand that, but if it related to the battery being old and not full capacity, and thus putting the device into low power mode, then plugging in would help, since the battery isn't draining while you are plugged in. The whole premise of this is that Apple is trying to get a full days use from a low capacity battery by lowering power consumption, correct? Or are these old batteries not supplying the correct voltage? Either way, plugging in should help, since you can run a device normally with just a minimal charge left on the battery if you are plugged in. It doesn't need to go into power save mode if you are plugged in.
This doesn’t surprise me. My phone would randomly shut down whenever I was doing something CPU-intensive. Not every time, but the problem steadily worsened.
FWIW I replaced the battery and, not only does it stay alive when I’m playing games, it generally runs much smoother. I would prefer if they were transparent about it, though — when my phone got sluggish, I was tempted to buy a new $800+ phone when all I needed was a $100 battery replacement. That’s what they want! But hey, give us a pop-up that says “We’re slowing this down because your battery can’t keep up.” My loyalty to Apple is far greater now that I know my three-year-old iPhone 6 is perfectly usable. When I was using a Galaxy Nexus, I had to manually flash 4.1 to make it run smoothly. Google didn’t care the slightest bit about optimizing the OS for last year’s flagship.
And yes, I know I could have gone to a third party and saved a bunch of money on the battery replacement.
Usually there are more motives. I seems to me quite possible that they want to reduce the workload for their AppleCare contact centers - and improve customer satisfaction.
I would go so far to say that for the average user it is more important that is iPhone hasn't to be charged two times a day than that his iPhone is a bit slower.
-> We are not average.
Thanks for this. My 6S has felt really sluggish and I had been holding off on replacing the defective battery because I had been busy with work. After reading this I made an appointment and got a free replacement. Phone runs great now. Had been thinking of upgrading but didn’t want to lose the audio jack. Huge win.
My Air 2 cut out last night during a music session and took me back to the lock screen. CPU was only at 50% so I wonder if this was related to their ‘performance throttling’.
It wasn't.
This happens when you haven't touched the screen in a while and the foreground app has not enabled iOS's "don't go to sleep" feature.
How do you know that?
Not the case in this instance - I was fiddling with the AUFX:Dub controls at the time creating infinite space, and then...:::::: spinning clocks. When the spinning stopped, I was chucked back to the lock screen, though the apps were all still open when I unlocked.
Performance throttling will never result in stopping processes. It will not make software doing errors or (probable cause) having iOS an error or (another probable cause) having a system wide issue on your iOS device.
Sorry, if you dont like to hear this answer.
Maybe, hasn't happened before though and I only had a few apps running.
Yeah, a bit worrying as something similar happend to @Zen210507 and broke his wife's Air 2. Hope I'm not going down that route...