People on the cyberspace appear to be setting their iPhone ’s location to France , despite not living there , in an attempt to travel rapidly up their devices . The " cab " , which has receive a lot of attentionon Redditand other societal media net , claim that it prevents the deceleration of devices seen on many elderly iPhones .
Why ? Well , harmonise to areport from GizChina , it all halt back to a fine imposed on Apple by France ’s competition guard dog in 2020 . The firm wasfined 25 million euros($27 million ) last class for deliberately slow up older equipment , without making it absolved to consumers that installing updates would make them to fawn . Appleconfirmed in 2017that they do slow down older equipment , stating that this is so as to increase the performance of the lithium - ion batteries as they age .
" Electronic ingredient require a minimum emf to properly operate , " the companywrote on their website , explaining that older batteries are less able of have the heraldic bearing needed for the new systems it operates .
" When the operations can no longer be support with the full capableness of the power management system , the scheme will perform a closure to preserve these electronic component part . While this closure is knowing from the equipment perspective , it may be unexpected by the user . "
And so when users downloaded upgrades to their elder example of iPhone ( the caller say that this has changed from iPhone 8 onwards ) they were downloading software that would slow up down their phones , so as to forbid these closedown and other battery problems , which led some to accuse the house of occupy inplanned obsolescence .
exploiter on the net , comply the account from GizChina , believe that since the lawsuit in France , Apple have quit this throttling of performance in the land , and so setting your own previous iPhone ’s realm to France will then invalid the slowdown .
To do this , you need to :
As stated above , though this might forge , it could cause you some battery government issue and unexpected closure , which you could find more annoying than your slower phone . In newer phones that run iOS 11.3 and above , Apple have battery health options that will tell you if your battery is senesce and call for to be interchange .
" Additionally , users can see if the performance management feature film that dynamically manages maximal performance to prevent unexpected shutdowns is on and can pick out to turn it off . "
commute your country on a newer iPhone however is pointless , but may make you feel a little fancy .
