iOS 11.3 Beta

**bls1999** · 27th January 2018, 11:49 AM

I'm enrolled in the public iOS beta program, and Apple just released the first public beta of iOS 11.3.

You've probably heard that over the past month or so, there's been quite a bit of controversy over Apple throttling phone performance to "maximize battery life." This update removes the throttling (a toggle will be added in the future), and my phone's CPU performance pretty much doubled, according to Geekbench. The GPU performance also substantially increased.

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**Eternal** · 27th January 2018, 7:23 PM

How is your battery life in regards to this?

**aaaaaa123456789** · 28th January 2018, 12:26 AM

As a general rule, if a software update improves hardware performance, the software you had before belongs in the trash.

**bls1999** · 28th January 2018, 2:23 PM

(27th January 2018, 7:23 PM)Eternal Wrote: How is your battery life in regards to this?

A little worse, but the phone performance is so much better that I don't mind.

(28th January 2018, 12:26 AM)aaaaaa123456789 Wrote: As a general rule, if a software update improves hardware performance, the software you had before belongs in the trash.

Absolutely correct. Apple got caught trying to do planned obsolescence on their devices.

**aaaaaa123456789** · 28th January 2018, 6:43 PM

...yet people keep buying them...

**Zelante** · 29th January 2018, 8:29 AM

(28th January 2018, 6:43 PM)aaaaaa123456789 Wrote: ...yet people keep buying them...

Ikr. I have a friend who's an Apple fanatic blaming battery companies for this, lmao