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12-21-2017, 11:21 AM
Why you shouldn't worry about Apple slowing down your iPhone
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I owned an iPhone 6 for two years. During the second winter I spent with it, whenever I'd go for a run in the cold, the iPhone would shut down at some point mid-run, even if I'd charged it fully right before I left my house. There was no way to turn it back on without connecting it to power. It was beyond frustrating.
Now I know why it was happening. My iPhone, which I was using to track my run via GPS, stream music from Amazon or Spotify over cellular, and relay social-media "cheers" to me as audio notifications via the Nike+ Running app — not to mention all the other everyday background stuff an iPhone does — was, at some point, pushing the processor hard enough to demand a lot of current from the battery. And my battery, which was over a year old at this point, simply couldn't handle it, certainly not in the cold. It had a panic attack and shut down. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/iphone-performance-limiting-feature/)
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Now I know why it was happening. My iPhone, which I was using to track my run via GPS, stream music from Amazon or Spotify over cellular, and relay social-media "cheers" to me as audio notifications via the Nike+ Running app — not to mention all the other everyday background stuff an iPhone does — was, at some point, pushing the processor hard enough to demand a lot of current from the battery. And my battery, which was over a year old at this point, simply couldn't handle it, certainly not in the cold. It had a panic attack and shut down. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/iphone-performance-limiting-feature/)
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