Tag Archives: Throttling

Smartphone makers have come under scrutiny for various performance boosting and limiting methods in the past. OnePlus recently found itself in that boat when testing revealed that many popular apps were having their performance throttled.  Anandtech recently tested the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro smartphones and found that the …

Late last week, it became known that Apple's latest 2018 MacBook Pros were throttling, which hurt Core i9 performance in particular. Yesterday we learned that this was actually due to voltage settings with the VRMs, and a user-generated fix was pushed out. Now, Apple has made things easier with a …

Apple entered 2018 on a bad note, with plenty of iPhone users taking issue with the company's formerly hidden ‘throttling' feature in iOS. In order to keep batteries from failing over time, Apple would quietly cut down the clock speeds of processors in older iPhones. This led to plenty of …

Two weeks ago, Apple launched the first beta of its iOS 11.3 update, allowing for users to switch off its controversial automatic throttling feature. The update has now hit its second developer beta, with the company adding in its promised battery health monitoring feature along with ironing out some known …

Apple has faced plenty of criticism over the last few weeks after it was found that the company was slowing down older iPhone models in order to keep batteries from failing over time. This has raised plenty of questions from consumers, and it looks like US government officials have some …

iOS 11.3 has hit beta and with it, its data has been scoured to reveal the prospect of an updated iPad with Face ID technology. Despite not being present in the current beta, Apple has also confirmed that iOS 11.3 will include the option to turn off its controversial throttling. …

Last week, Italy’s antitrust body confirmed that it has opened up an investigation into Apple and Samsung in an effort to determine whether or not these companies actively slow down older devices in order to push users into upgrading. Now this week, Samsung has responded to this, denying the idea …

It looks like government bodies are starting to take notice of the ‘planned obsolescence' allegations often levied at smartphone companies. This week, Italy's antitrust body confirmed that it has opened up an investigation into Apple and Samsung in an effort to determine whether or not these companies actively slow down …

Apple has received its share of criticism after it came to light that older iPhone models were automatically being throttled in order to get some extra life out of degrading batteries. The iPhone 6 in particular was heavily impacted by this, with performance drops as high as 50 percent. Apple's …

The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has gone ahead and served US mobile carrier, AT&T with a $100 million fine for misleading its customers with unlimited data plans. It turns out that the company was heavily throttling user speeds on the unlimited data service without informing any of them. AT&T was …

Netflix has been giving Verizon the digital middle finger for a little while now. In a campaign to point out to its customer base the reason for their service being slow – Verizon has been throttling it along with other cloud services – Netflix has had a message on its …