For more than a week, the technical community circulated news about Apple's downgrading of the devices' performance, and we talked about it in news on the sidelines the week before last -this linkThen Apple officially acknowledged the news and we mentioned it as well the day before yesterday -this link- Then the news spread globally and everyone focused on one point, which is either attacking or defending Apple without anyone speaking about an important point, which is "How do we benefit from this recognition?" Yes, almost everything we can benefit from.

What can we gain from Apple's admission of underperforming?


Important clarification

In this article, we will talk about everything related to the batteries point from the beginning of the problem, then Apple acted in front of this matter, followed by the most important point, which is how to benefit from this news. So please read the article as a whole and not get a preconception and go to the comments section of the attack and accusations.


the whole story

At the beginning of 2017, complaints began to appear that there was a battery malfunction and complaints such as errors in reading the real battery percentage and sudden shutdown of some devices despite the fact that the battery was not exhausted. At that time, Apple announced that it would solve this problem in an update soon. Last March, it released the iOS 10.2.1 update, and indeed the complaints disappeared and the story ended at that time, but it re-emerged two weeks ago.

A developer named TeckFire published a news that he said he had a battery problem with his phone, and indeed this was done, but before and after the change he performed a speed test of the device to see if the repair affects the performance of the device. The surprise was that the phone's performance increased by more than 70%, as the following picture shows:

Battery performance

And here the story began, where a number of people did the same thing and the result was the same ... The speed of the iPhone increases after changing the battery. This prompted the owner and founder of GeekBench to reveal his statistics and said that he was already monitoring a decrease in the results received from some iPhones. He said that the problem is mainly in the iPhone 6 / 6s, but in recent weeks it started to appear in the iPhone 7, specifically the one running iOS 11.2. And of course, a statement by a person of this strength settled the controversy. Which prompted Apple to official recognition.


Apple Comment

After the statements of the founder of the famous site, Apple was forced to issue an official confession in which it said that they had detected a defect that always occurs in the batteries of devices and that if there is an application or game that you want to use the maximum power of the processor and at the same time the battery has a defect, then the battery is unable to provide the necessary energy for the processor, which causes Turn off iPhone. So Apple decided to issue an update to fix this in the iPhone 6 / 6s, then later it included the iPhone 7 and said that in the next updates, this will include more devices. And Apple clarified that this is in the interest of the user because its goal is to have the phone work and not collapse or stop.


The attack on Apple

The technical community, as well as the average user, focused on Apple for several reasons, namely:

1

How to have a device and his company decides to reduce its performance for any reason without telling you? Is the phone my property or Apple to decide and choose its performance?

2

Why does Apple hide the user's battery malfunction? Do you aim to delay the emergence of the problem until the phone is out of warranty and thus repair is done at the user's expense (costs approximately $ 80).

3

Why isn't Apple investing its big bucks to develop more quality batteries? Is it possible that the defect appeared in the phone of last year 7 and 7 Plus ?!


How do we use this advantageously?

Personally, I see what Apple did as an advantage because it prevented devices from crashing and shutting down and forcing you to change a battery immediately. But Apple should have told you that there was a malfunction in your battery, not just keep it from you. But here's a helpful trick

If you have an iPhone 6 / 6s / 7, as well as the Plus version, and you find the phone is slower than it was in the past, then perhaps you are someone who has reduced performance by Apple because of a defect in the battery so before you decide to pay a huge amount to replace the battery and it is not the cause. Here's the solution:

1

Download the popular Geekbench 4 app for testing performance. Unfortunately the application is paid, but it has become free many times, so you may have or have a free friend. Or even buy it for only $ 0.99 and it may save you a battery price of $ 80.

This app is no longer available on the App Store. :-(

2

Close all applications in the background, then run the application and do a performance test, and the numbers will appear, so compare them with the company's website -this linkThe previous link shows you the average numbers for all Apple devices. If your numbers are close to the mentioned, this means that your device is intact and operating at full performance. Maybe this feeling is slow myself or there is a bug in iOS itself, so run a restore.

3

If your figure is far from average, we recommend a final experiment. Do a restore for your device and do not count from the back up. Once your device opens after the restore, download the application and run the test before downloading anything.

4

If the number is also far from the numbers. For example, the iPhone 7 shows a result in the multiple cores, 5743. If your phone appears, for example, 5600, this is not changed and the result is sound. But if the result is 4700, for example, this means that there is a problem and the performance of your processor is less than normal. Often the defect is the battery, and if you change it, your problem will be solved (we often say because we may be surprised in the future that Apple for another reason decides to reduce performance).


One last comment

We are not a party to Apple's problem or statement. And we explained at the top that Apple was logical that Apple was telling you that the performance of your device is low due to a problem with the battery and when you solve it, your phone will return to good performance. In this article, we sought to clarify the problem and that the performance reduction is not permanent, but rather until you replace the battery. We explained tricks that you can try to find out whether your phone needs to change a battery or not, but we invite you to research the matter, because you will pay the price of the battery, but we wanted to help you so that you do not take the step of changing it while it is right for you.

We recommend performing a performance test while the battery is full, as Apple states that the performance will decrease if the battery is defective or weak


Do you agree with us that Apple made a mistake in not explaining the existence of a battery defect? Do you suffer from low performance and expect it from the battery?

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