Apple finally admitted it slows down Iphones as they get older

[laggyteabag]

I got myself a 5S a couple of years back, for my 18th birthday, and that phone is starting to piss me off.

Its slow.

My battery suddenly loses 10% charge all the time - not to say it is a big battery, anyway.

The new iOS is super unstable, and is buggy as all hell.

Sometimes I can't even get into my phone because the "Press Home to Unlock" sometimes decides that it doesn't want to work - meaning I need to open a notification to be able to get past the lock screen.

And now, sometimes my phone will just switch off at 30% charge, and wont restart until it is plugged in, in which case, it will magically start up with 30% again.

And now this?

Instantly bought an Android phone.

 

[Jeroenr]

I never understood why people buy apple phones in the first place.

The fact that you can't upgrade your storage capacity is in itself total BS.

People buy them for the look. Apple always had a style over function mentality, so nothing new there.

part of the problem is how people charge the battery as well, for example leaving your phone plugged in overnight can be damaging in the long term.

Personally i don't have a problem with fixt storage, as long there is at least 64gb of it.
Especially now streaming services are mainstream.

And finally, Apple is far from the only one who is planning obsolescence, samsung updates stop in about 2 year after release.
and most modern phones don't have a removable battery anymore.

 

[Saelune]

From what I've read it's actually a battery issue [https://www.vox.com/2017/12/22/16807056/apple-slow-iphone-batteries]. Apple isn't slowing down people's phones to make them buy new ones; they're slowing down people's phones to stop them from crashing due to an aging battery.

Basically, as the phone's battery ages - all batteries age, but lithium ion batteries age in a particularly inconvenient [https://phys.org/news/2015-11-neutrons-aging-lithium-ion-batteries.html] way - it can't keep up with the phone when the phone is running at or near to its maximum processing capacity. The iPhone's battery in particular was causing the whole phone to crash [http://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-6-6s-sudden-shutdown-weve-almost-fully-cured-issue-with-ios-10-2-1-says-apple/] unexpectedly whenever people ran several apps at once.

Apple released a software patch to fix the crashing issue, but it fixed it largely by imposing artificial limits [https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-slow-fix-battery-life-capacity] on the processing power of the phone. That is to say, slowing the phone down.

So, not a great move by Apple; they could've been more open about the causes of the problem, and they probably could've avoided building a phone whose power demands would exceed its projected capacity in the first place. From their perspective, they probably decided that slowing down older phones was better for the consumer than either letting the problem go unaddressed or telling consumers to shell out for a new battery.

Not to mention that they make the $50 replacement part not user-serviceable so we can't just buy a battery off Amazon and swap it out in five minutes (like I could with the first cell phone I ever saw, a Motorola Microtac, AKA "a literal fucking brick").

Yeah, this part's especially dumb. Apple has always had a systematic aversion to letting its customers fuck around the insides of their hardware, which leads to decisions like making it stupidly complicated [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmtNJuqEHI] to remove a battery on your own.

My old Galaxy phone, I can just pop the case off with my thumb and swap out the battery. For an iPhone you need a goddamn specialised screwdriver and you need to take out like a dozen tiny screws. It's daft.

I got an 80gig video iPod that I still own and use and it is really well-made. Hasnt broken when I dropped it, power is fine, and I mean, 80 gigs in that tiny little thing!?

It quickly stopped being made and sold.

Apple is blatantly shady, and you know better than to believe their lies.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I got an 80gig video iPod that I still own and use and it is really well-made. Hasnt broken when I dropped it, power is fine, and I mean, 80 gigs in that tiny little thing!?

It quickly stopped being made and sold.

Apple is blatantly shady, and you know better than to believe their lies.

One of these? I've had mine for 10 years now and it still works good. I've had to replace the headphone jack a couple times, but other than that no problems. Battery still lasts over 6 hours too.

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

I got an 80gig video iPod that I still own and use and it is really well-made. Hasnt broken when I dropped it, power is fine, and I mean, 80 gigs in that tiny little thing!?

It quickly stopped being made and sold.

Apple is blatantly shady, and you know better than to believe their lies.

What? No, I hate Apple. Never bought any of their products. Their whole design philosophy is not my deal. I want something I can crack open and fuck around with in an emergency. Y'know, something that works.

Apple wants to sell you a new phone every year and keep doing that until the end of time. They're obsessed with processing power and having a phone that is all slim and shiny, and they ignore the basic shit like battery lifespans, and that's what causes stuff-ups like this one. Stuff-ups that can't be easily fixed because they deliberately make it hard to replace the battery in their goddamn phone.

 

[Saelune]

I got an 80gig video iPod that I still own and use and it is really well-made. Hasnt broken when I dropped it, power is fine, and I mean, 80 gigs in that tiny little thing!?

It quickly stopped being made and sold.

Apple is blatantly shady, and you know better than to believe their lies.

One of these? I've had mine for 10 years now and it still works good. I've had to replace the headphone jack a couple times, but other than that no problems. Battery still lasts over 6 hours too.

Yup. Still love mine.