A few days after it was very clearly explained to us that Apple slows down iPhones with old batteries through iOS updates, today the company officially recognized this through a press statement. Apple has been accused of implementing changes in iOS due to which phones that are at least 1 year old begin to have poor performance, and this turns out to be 100% true, and below is Apple's explanation.
Officially, Apple says that old iPhone batteries cannot perform as well as a new battery, and when there is a peak of energy drawn by the components, iPhone phones can turn off. To prevent this, the Apple company decided to limit the performance of the iPhone completely so that the phones don't go out, although users have a bad experience from phones that are only 1 year old.
Apple Admits It Slows Down iPhones Through iOS
In some cases, the performance of the iPhone can be reduced to half of the old battery, and this depends on the charge/discharge cycles that the respective battery has during the period of use. If you charge your iPhones daily, there is a very high chance that after 1 year of use you will wake up with a very slow phone, and this is because of the battery that has worn out a lot and can no longer support the performance.
The solution to this problem, apart from buying another phone, is to replace the battery with a new one, the performance should theoretically return to a better value, but no one guarantees that. Since Apple does not allow the reinstallation of old versions of iOS, the performance comparison between the various versions of iOS can only be done by analyzing data from the Internet, so most consumers do not bother.
Even so, this is the first time that Apple officially admits that it reduces the performance of the iPhone, but this will not change our daily experience at all.
"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."
