Good news from Apple about older iPhone battery life and iOS slow down (1 Viewer)

[Thomas Newton]

Apparently Apple has extended the battery-performance management to the iPhone 8, 8+ and X in iOS 12.1. From the release notes…


I am too lazy to do a search but I thought Apple indicated, when this originally came to light, that those models wouldn't require such management? (could be wrong about that)

According to this link, in a letter to Congress, Apple said that they were now using "a more advanced hardware and software design" such that the "impacts of performance management may be less noticeable." Note the words "may" and "less".

https://bgr.com/2018/10/31/iphone-x-speed-throttling-may-occur-as-the-battery-gets-old/

There is now a preference setting for disabling throttling. The implicit tradeoff is that disabling throttling when you have an aging battery may increase the risk that you will experience unexpected shutdowns.

EDIT: If you go two links deep, there's an article claiming that CPU throttling is a thing of the past. But that very same article quotes the Apple letter (which leaves the door open for some throttling), suggesting that the reporters did not fully understand the news they were reporting on.