• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    iPhones have a setting where as the battery ages they can throttle the cpu, you can disable this setting.

    It did it briefly against users will on batteries that were at a certain age / wear threshold, then Apple started offering decreased battery replacement costs and added a toggle for this feature that the user could control. It’s been there since iOS 11 back in 2018.

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      18 minutes ago

      Ye, they did that after they were caught and fined for secretly underclocking phones lawl

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      Good to know they added that and really highlights when I last really interacted with one