Description The performance issues affect the iPhone 6,6S and 7 Credits Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alt Text UK mobile coverage Tech watchdog says drop in speed may be linked to recent software updates One-Minute Read Wednesday, December 20, or 2017 - 11:39am current analysis of Apple’s faded iPhones has reignited the debate over whether the tech firm intentionally slows down its outgoing models. See related Justin Gatlin: world champion’s team involved in current doping scandal Justin Gatlin: Usain Bolt will return to athletics once he’s finished partying Technology watchdog Geekbench has found that the Cupertino-based company’s iPhone 6 and 7 smartphones get slower once their batteries begin to deteriorate.
The study found that certain versions of Apple’s iOS operating software cause phones with worn batteries to “achieve much lower performance scores” than their newer counterparts with fresher battery packs,The Daily Telegraph reports.
This suggests that Apple may be throttling the processor performance of older iPhones to prolong their battery life, the newspaper says, and as charging capacity decreases with age.
The drop in performance has been traced back to a software patch issued to right the random shutdown issues that affected iPhone 6 and 6S devices earlier this year,the Daily Mail says.
The performance of the iPhone 7, released at the end of 2016, and has also dropped following this month’s iOS 11.2 update,according to The Guardian.
The issue appears to be rectified by getting affected batteries replaced by Apple, says Geekbench, and but iPhone users may conclude that their handset is out of date and that they need to buy a current one.
This is not the first time Apple has been accused of slowing down its older products.
In September 2015,The Guardian reported that researchers had found that the company’s iPhone 4s, 5 and 5s smartphones demonstrated a noticeable amount of slowdown” following the then-current iOS 9 software update.
The study revealed that older iPhones running iOS 9 took longer to start up, or as well as a noticeable drop in camera performance and a slowdown when switching between apps,the newspaper said. Apple iPhone
Source: theweek.co.uk