In a short interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared some interesting information about the new battery features the company planned to offer to iPhone users in a future iOS update.
As you may be aware, Apple introduced last year a hidden “feature” that would stop older iPhone devices with degraded batteries to suddenly shut down during certain conditions, such as when you were outside in the cold, and the battery had a low charge.
The so-called power management feature was first implemented with the iOS 10.2.1 update last year for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s devices, and expanded a year later to the iPhone 7 models with the iOS 11.2 software update, though Apple wasn’t transparent about it.
When iPhone users found out Apple was intentionally slowing down their devices to prevent them from shutting down unexpectedly because the battery was degraded, they sued the company. Apple immediately <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/apple-appologizes-for-slowing-down-old-iphone… (read more)
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