This is literally a GOOD THING. They made it so their phones would reduce their boost clocks slightly if the battery is degraded to the point where the battery can no longer support those clocks in order to prevent unexpected power offs/faults from the processor trying to pull more energy than the battery can output. The underclock is not noticeable in day to day usage and prevents instability due to a worn out battery AND it automatically reverts to the factory clock speed if the battery is replaced and therefore the underclock is no longer needed!
Would you rather your several year old phone be slightly imperceptibly slower at times or crash randomly because that 50Mhz of boost clock was so critical to you?
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.
This is an android only issue FWIW
The comment below me saying iPhones do this is referencing 10 year old information.
iPhone underclocks older phonea against the will of the users too last I heard
This is literally a GOOD THING. They made it so their phones would reduce their boost clocks slightly if the battery is degraded to the point where the battery can no longer support those clocks in order to prevent unexpected power offs/faults from the processor trying to pull more energy than the battery can output. The underclock is not noticeable in day to day usage and prevents instability due to a worn out battery AND it automatically reverts to the factory clock speed if the battery is replaced and therefore the underclock is no longer needed!
Would you rather your several year old phone be slightly imperceptibly slower at times or crash randomly because that 50Mhz of boost clock was so critical to you?
Last you heard was literally a decade ago then. This is a long settled matter
ONCE
They did it ONCE
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.
Ye, they did that after they were caught and fined for secretly underclocking phones lawl
Meanwhile Google added mandatory battery management back into the Pixel 10 because fuck you I guess?
So don’t buy a Pixel
Good to know they added that and really highlights when I last really interacted with one
Yes.
On the other hand, I have to basically hack an iPad 5 to use essentially any app on it that’s relevant and/ or not a subscription service.
Meanwhile I can put PostmarketOS on devices over a decade old on the android side.
So while they support longer, once no longer supported, essentially e-waste even though they have pretty good hardware, just cuz.