> The throttling is there to prevent the instant shutdown due to old batteries having a lower peak output
Sure, but it would be nice to be informed about it (so I can choose to get my battery replaced instead) and to be able to turn it off without changing the ___location to France
You are. When the phone reboots as a result of power problems, you get a notification that says:
"This iPhone has experienced an unexpected shutdown because the battery was unable to deliver the necessary peak power. Performance management has been applied to help prevent this from happening again."
Describing CPU throttling as "performance management" is perhaps a little stilted, but all the basic information is there.
> to be able to turn it off without changing the ___location to France
You can. It's in the Battery settings. It's not super obvious (small text link that says "Disable..." after a description of the throttling), but it's there.
For comparison, on Mac when the battery starts dying, you get a persistent warning in the menu bar battery indicator. Hard to miss it every day.
On the iPhone, the one-time alert with cryptic language will just be dismissed by most users without a second thought. Doesn't matter that the capability to turn this "feature" off is buried somewhere in the settings when most people don't know about it.
Apple knows how to design good UI. If they wanted to prompt people to replace batteries, they would find a good way to do that. But they much prefer people buying new phones instead.
Saying the feature is "buried somewhere in settings" feels like a biased framing. Settings are in the settings menu. This is a setting so it's in the settings menu. I assume it's categorised in some way that makes sense. Is any feature that 2 taps deep "buried"?
If you don't know that it's the battery causing your phone to be slow, you as an average user will never find that setting. And if you skip that one time dialog (by mistake or due to dialog fatigue), you won't even suspect the battery. Most users aren't technical and have no idea why a weaker battery would cause throttling.
Ah, thanks! Not having had an iPhone after the 2G one, I couldn't check myself, and I had assumed that these details would be mentioned at the beginning of the article...
I think it was an unfair move from Apple at the beginning, but given your description it seems the current status is fair and the article is basically a click bait.
Sure, but it would be nice to be informed about it (so I can choose to get my battery replaced instead) and to be able to turn it off without changing the ___location to France