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    Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones To Save Their Battery Life

    by Bill Chappell Dec 21, 2017 2 minutes
    Apple says that it slows the processors in some of its older phones to match their aging, less powerful batteries. Here, the iPhone 6s Plus is seen at an Apple Store in late 2015.

    Confirming iPhone owners' suspicions that Apple purposefully slows the operation of older phones, Apple says that it does just that — and that slowing down processors makes it easier for old batteries to perform after they've begun to lose capacity.

    Apple is responding to owners of older phones who have increasingly said they notice slower performance after they upgrade their device's software. The difference was highlighted — and it was quantified in a blog post at Geekbench, the processor benchmarking company.

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