Apple admits to slowing down your iPhone, but justifies why it did such a thing

Apple must be following the news where a user brought back the performance of the iPhone 6s by replacing the battery of the phone with a brand new one. The founder of Geekbench also found out that battery and software issues were prevalent in these devices.

Apple has come clean, with an official statement given below detailing that it does indeed slow down your iPhone. However, the company also explains that it does this because it wants to provide the best battery life experience that is possible to the user.

“Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices. Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components.

Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. We’ve now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add support for other products in the future.”

Lots of testers have proposed that with every software update, Apple forces the processor in the iPhone to run at a lower clock so that it will use less of the battery inside that iPhone. Since the battery continues to degrade, there will come a point where the iPhone will no longer be usable thanks to having its performance practically crippled.

There are some workarounds to this problem. Firstly you do not always have to update your iPhone to the latest iOS update, but if you feel that there is a new feature that you would like to take advantage of, there might not be a choice in the matter.

The second option is that you swap out the old battery with a new one, but that will be quite difficult, especially for someone who is going to follow this for the first time.

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