Recently, there is the announcement that Apple has slowed down your iPhone on purpose. If you are wondering your iPhone is reducing its speed? Here is the way, check out!

How to check if Apple has slowed down your iPhone

In a recent statement, Apple has confirmed that they intentionally slowing down the old iPhones. To be specific, Apple occasionally restricts the processor of the iPhones. The older phone would require more power than the battery could supply. As a result, the smartphone would shut down suddenly. Apple has explained that this is a feature to help protect iPhone against the ageing batteries problems.

The software updates could make sure that the phone would not shut down. However, this OS update would slow down your Apple iPhone. Noticeably, these features have appeared not only on iPhone 6 and iPhone 7. The list of handsets includes iPhone 6S, iPhone SE and even future Apple flagships. Here is how to figure out is your iPhone is affected. Firstly, check your model. The affected phones are Apple iPhone 6, 6S, SE and 7.

Secondly, you check your Software by going to Settings–>General–>About and look under Version. Next, check your battery health by downloading an app like Battery Life or Battery HD+ from the App Store. If your battery gets the rating: “Poor”, your phone is slowed down. However, these apps do not show the threshold is for slowing down a device. After that, you should look at benchmarks. Here is how to measure your benchmarks. You can compare the Geekbench scores for new iPhones: iPhone 6S: 2500 and iPhone 7: 3500. Anything 500-point difference below that means your iPhone gets a problem.

What to do if your iPhone gets the slowing-down problem?

On discovering your iPhone has been affected, there is 3 ways we suugest for you. The first way is replacing your iPhone’s battery. The alternative is getting rid of the old iPhone and invest in a new one.