While it’s already been shown that replacing the battery on an older iPhone speeds it up — and Apple has already admitted that they slowed the older devices on purpose when the batteries weakened — a new video is showing just how pronounced the benefits are. The video, posted by Bennett Sorbo, showed a slowed-down iPhone 6s completing a series of tasks in 5 minutes and 45 seconds, then showed the same device taking only 4 minutes and 33 seconds to finish them once the battery was replaced.
The old battery left the 6s with a single-core Geekbench score of 1437 points and a multi-core score of 2485, where the device scored 2520 and 4412 respectively once the battery was swapped out. While users will soon be able to turn the throttling on and off at will, the video proves there are serious benefits to taking Apple up on its cheap battery replacement offer for eligible iPhones.
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