The scandal surrounding the fact that Apple intentionally slows old iPhone models as the degradation of their batteries, is rapidly gaining momentum. The company has repeatedly made public statements, apologized to their users and even reduced the cost of replacing the batteries in their smartphones with 79 to $ 29. But avalanches could not be stopped. One after another fell on the Apple lawsuits (even from Russian users). So Tim cook personally hastened to calm the boiling rage of the masses.
In his interview to ABC News Apple CEO Tim cook again brought up the subject of the recent scandal. He assured users of the company’s products that the next iOS update 11 will be a new feature that allows you to disable the slowing down devices that are activated as the degradation of the batteries. The beta version of the next iOS update should appear in February, and the final release can be expected in March.
“We are going to provide our users with a complete information about the battery status of their device. All of this will be completely transparent. None of the manufacturers had never done anything like this,” said Tim cook.
After installing the new firmware version, the device will notify the user that his phone automatically switches to lower power hardware to prevent sudden system shut down due to poor battery condition. According to cook, if you this situation will not hold, you will be able to disable this feature. However Apple CEO immediately made a reservation that does not recommend, because in this case, your smartphone can suddenly shut off at the most inopportune moment.
In the next iOS update you can turn off the slowdown in older iPhone models
Sergey Grey