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June 26, 2015 06:29 pm GMT
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iOS 9 may slow iPhones by almost 40% to squeeze out more battery life
To extend battery life at the cost of speed or not extend battery life? That is the question.
We learned earlier this month that iOS 9 will give your iPhone one extra hour of battery life, and a "Low Power Mode" will give you up to three more hours. In exchange for that extended battery life, though, your iPhone will throttle performance, according to testing done by MacRumors.
The Apple-focused blog ran Geekbench 3, a benchmark test that measures a device's processor power, on an iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 5S. It discovered the single-core and multi-core scores for their processors dropped by about 40% with iOS 9's Low Power Mode turned on. Read more...
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