Apple confirms it slows older iPhones on purpose | Engadget Today04:33

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Published on January 18, 2018

It’s apparently a feature, not a bug. #sarcasm

You’re not alone if you’ve noticed a slowdown in the performance of your older iPhone. The thing is, it may be more related to your battery than the phone itself. After a post on Reddit and a followup by benchmarking software Geekbench’s founder, Apple told TechCrunch that it released a fix for premature shutdowns last year for iPhone 6, 6s and SE by smoothing out CPU demand when a battery is older, cold, or just low on juice. Apple also said that it recently extended this slowdown feature to iPhone 7 devices running iOS 11.2, and plans to “add support for other products in the future.”

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