How to Know If a New Battery Will Fix Your Lagging IPhone
Your old iPhone is starting to age; apps crawl to open, animations couldn’t be sharper, keyboard slows down like no other. Before you drop the towel and upgrade to the latest and greatest Apple device, consider simply upgrading your battery instead.
Perhaps your old iPhone is a perfectly good iPhone, even in 2021, it’s just that a dinosaur battery. As explained in this post , batteries age (even with “perfect” use) and as they age they no longer retain their original maximum charge.
An iPhone that’s four, three, or even two years old may have batteries that feel like they can’t be trusted after a morning cup of coffee. But it’s not just battery life that matters; it’s your entire iPhone.
Why Old Battery Slows Down Your iPhone
Apple hardware and software can be so demanding on an aging battery that your iPhone can shut down unexpectedly if there is too much activity. To prevent this from happening often, Apple automatically lowers (slows down) your iPhone’s processor, giving the battery a break at the expense of performance.
The company really has criticized this strategy many years ago, because they – oh – in fact anybody about it did not tell. For years, users assumed that Apple was deliberately slowing down their older iPhones, and even for a good reason, it wasn’t very good when it was confirmed to be true.
Apple hasn’t changed its actions since this scandal, but it has become more transparent about them: you now have access to battery tools on the device that can tell you if a simple battery change will speed up your iPhone.
How to check the battery status of your iPhone
Go to Settings> Battery> Battery Status. Here you can see the “maximum capacity” of your iPhone’s battery, which is a measure of how much charge the battery can hold compared to when it was new. For example, if your maximum capacity is 78%, then charging your battery to 100% is actually like working 78% when you first got your phone. Not ideal.
Now check “Peak Performance”. If everything is working properly, you will see: “The battery is currently maintaining normal peak performance.” However, you might see the following instead:
This iPhone shut down unexpectedly because the battery was unable to provide the required peak power. Performance management was applied to prevent this from happening again. Disable …
This means that at some point, your battery was too weak to fully exploit your iPhone’s potential, causing your iPhone to shut down unexpectedly. In response, iOS lowered the clock speed of the processor, helping the battery while driving you insane at the same time.
What can you do about it
You can turn off this slowdown by clicking Disable, theoretically bringing the iPhone back to full speed, but be aware that you risk quitting unexpectedly again in the future. In order not to repeat this process over and over again, it is more reliable solution not to purchase the phone, but simply to replace the battery completely.
It won’t work for the bank either: Even with the services Apple provides, a new battery will set you back $ 49- $ 69, depending on your iPhone model. Compared to the price of buying a new iPhone, replacing the battery is stealing and it will speed things up again.
Even after the upcoming iOS 15 launch, Apple will support iPhones released back in 2015. It has never been so easy to keep your old technology and not spend some serious money on a new device that you don’t really need. If all it takes to get your iPhone 6S usable six years after purchase is a $ 49 battery upgrade, that sounds easy to me.