It wasn’t that long ago—December 2017—that Apple admitted it was indeed slowing down iPhones over time on purpose. Ostensibly, this was to make sure you didn’t want to throw your phone against a wall after an OS upgrade because the batteries inside were becoming a real drag on performance and sometimes causing unexpected shutdowns. Apple throttled the battery output to the CPU down on older iPhones so the battery would last a little longer and shutdowns would cease.
The slowdown in performance was discovered when replacing a battery put older iPhones back to full performance. Which would have been a good thing—if the general public had been told about it upfront.
In response to that kerfuffle, Apple offered $29 replacement batteries for select older iPhone models throughout 2018. However, Apple did not stop throttling older iPhones. The difference is, it’ll actually tell you about it now. And by tell, I mean, you can go looking for the info in your iPhone’s battery settings.
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