Tim Cook says users will be able to turn off iPhone slowdown ‘feature’

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If you’re not happy with Apple’s assessment that iPhones should be slowed down as their batteries degrade, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s got good news for you: You’ll soon be able to turn that functionality off.

In an interview with ABC News, Cook once again apologized for perhaps not being clear enough about the motivation behind the move, which only became widely known after developer John Poole published a study which showed that the performance of iPhone 6S and 7 degrade over time. Read more…

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