Are you the owner of an old iPhone? Have you noticed it running a little slower lately?
Something that goes hand in hand in a world where we’re all dependent on technology is the sad reality that sometimes that technology doesn’t work as perfectly as we’d like it too.
Slowness and unpredictability in the battery life of old smartphones are always among the concerns of anyone who has owned their smartphone for any longer than a year.
Now, it seems as though someone has found evidence that Apple is intentionally causing older batteries to run slower through its iOS updates.
After conducting a battery life study, detailed here, Geekbench developer John Poole came to the conclusion “that Apple introduced a change to limit performance when battery condition decreases past a certain point.”
Poole further theorises that this mechanism was introduced in order to stop batteries from cutting off immediately at around 40%. By scaling back CPU performance, it’s argued, Apple prevent their batteries from becoming dysfunctional.
Poole argues that the problem with Apple’s apparent policy: “This fix will also cause users to think, “my phone is slow so I should replace it” not, “my phone is slow so I should replace its battery”. This will likely feed into the “planned obsolescence.””
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