Yes but replaceable batteries are a good start and a more pressing issue. A phone with a 4+ year old battery is useless even if you have all the software for it.
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Not my experience… I replaced my iPhone 6 because it was slow, not because battery was bad
And since 2018 I have iPhone XR, and the battery is fine still. So is the phone speed. I’m not changing it anytime soon
The battery probably made it slow: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/apple-settles-wi...
> I replaced my iPhone 6 because it was slow, not because battery was bad
iPhone slowness can go hand in hand with batteries going bad, especially in the iPhone 6 days. Apple phones will limit peak performance when it detects the battery voltage can't handle it without too much of a voltage drop. From what I understand its now an opt-out setting, but for most of the iPhone 6's life it wasn't an option.
If you opt out of it your phone will suddenly turn off, which is definitely not an improvement over being slow. Having the opt-out is nonsense and an example of bad regulation.
This isn't the only reason an old phone would be slow though, batteries are not the only consumable component in a phone.
For sure. I've had devices slow down from storage wearing out as well.
The software slows the phone down so not create current spikes that the aged battery cant handle
Do you remember the whole phone throttling issue on a bad battery?