Apple has addressed claims from an app company that says the maker of iPhones slows down the performance of older phones.
On Monday, the blog Primate Labs, a company that makes an app for measuring the speed of an iPhone's processor, published data that appeared to show slower performance in the Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 models as they aged.
Apple on Wednesday acknowledged that the company does take some measures to reduce power demands - which can have the effect of slowing the processor - when a phone's battery is having trouble supplying the peak current that the processor demands.
The problem stems from the fact that all lithium-ion batteries, not just those found in Apple products, degrade and have problems supplying the big bursts as they age and accumulate charging cycles, Apple said in a statement. The problems with peak current draws can also occur when batteries are cold or low on charge.
Aha! So that's what happened! It's was actually a good thing overall. I became so accustomed to an instantly refreshed feed that I didn't realized how impatient I had become. Now I chill.. and hope that it will eventually happen. Apple could have warned us... or did they?
in the old iphone 3g days i used to jailbreak often, what i found after a jailbreak was that apple had a kill switch hidden in the code, who knows what else they have in there? honestly this feels sneaky...