[HN Gopher] Old iPhones become faster if you change the region t...
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Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France
Author : fomine3
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-08-24 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| greatgib wrote:
| Some people are pretending that it is a user feature to throttle
| and that it is to have a more stable phone when the battery
| becomes older.
|
| But, if my memory is good, when Apple was fined in France, it was
| shown that the throttling was performed without consideration for
| the battery state. So was done even with a new battery (or the
| power cord plugged)
|
| Also, for people having Stockholm syndrome, if they would have to
| throttle to preserve stability when the battery is old, it is not
| a "nice" user feature but a consequence of having made the
| battery not removable and easily swappable!
| TurkishPoptart wrote:
| Is this because France launched the lawsuit against alleged
| planned obsolescence?
| sodality2 wrote:
| "The reason for the smoothness is that Apple has been fined by
| France for the frequency reduction incident. This means that
| the company can not temper the performance of old iPhones in
| the country."
| syspec wrote:
| Using this trick, the phone will also die suddenly at 30% power
| if the cpu draws too much power at once and the old battery
| cannot keep up.
|
| The throttling is there to prevent the instant shutdown due to
| old batteries having a lower peak output
| Daedren wrote:
| Without the trick, you don't know if you require a new battery
| or a new phone.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| Settings > Battery will show you whether a new battery is
| recommended
|
| https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207453
| gattilorenz wrote:
| > The throttling is there to prevent the instant shutdown due
| to old batteries having a lower peak output
|
| Sure, but it would be nice to be informed about it (so I can
| choose to get my battery replaced instead) and to be able to
| turn it off without changing the location to France
| duskwuff wrote:
| > it would be nice to be informed about it
|
| You are. When the phone reboots as a result of power
| problems, you get a notification that says:
|
| "This iPhone has experienced an unexpected shutdown because
| the battery was unable to deliver the necessary peak power.
| Performance management has been applied to help prevent this
| from happening again."
|
| Describing CPU throttling as "performance management" is
| perhaps a little stilted, but all the basic information is
| there.
|
| > to be able to turn it off without changing the location to
| France
|
| You can. It's in the Battery settings. It's not super obvious
| (small text link that says "Disable..." after a description
| of the throttling), but it's there.
| 6gvONxR4sf7o wrote:
| Old iphones become more stable if you change the region from
| France!
|
| In all seriousness, it frustrates me how much of the focus was
| on the bad half of the _tradeoff_ rather than the lack of
| messaging. Now you have people who believe apple deliberately
| slowed old models for no reason other than because they 're
| old.
| sixothree wrote:
| Twice in my life an irreversible update has made an iPhone
| slow to the point of being unusable.
|
| People are skeptical for a reason.
| k12sosse wrote:
| Fool me once.. fool me twice.. won't get fooled again.
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