Apple promises to give users info about impact updates on iPhone performance

Apple has promised the British market regulator to provide users with information about what it does with the performance of the phone and the battery when an iOS upgrade or update is made. That was not the case before.

In the information that Apple provides with an update or upgrade of iOS, it must now be clear what the consequences are for the performance of the phone, reports the British Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA. As a result, people will know if their iPhone’s performance has decreased due to the update or upgrade, and so they don’t have to send their iPhone for repair assuming it’s a hardware problem.

The CMA has negotiated this with Apple in response to an issue that played out a year and a half ago. Then Apple confirmed that it had deliberately slowed down iPhones when the battery was aging to prevent them from failing due to excessive battery peak load.

As a result, Apple put the Battery Health feature in iOS 11.3 and was fined in Italy for addressing the battery problem. It also offered to repair iPhone batteries at a discount, which 11 million people used. It is unknown whether the CMA is also in talks with other smartphone makers about similar agreements.