I’ve noticed when I’m at 1%, my X slows down to a crawl. Pretty sure this happens with my 8 too. Has anyone else experienced this?
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iPhone 8/Plus iPhone X / 8 Slowdown Before Battery Depleted
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yeah, I think this just happens.. could be the battery saver, could be some safety mechanism.
Same with my X on 11.1.2, as soon as it hits 1% the phone becomes extremely slow, unresponsive and laggy. Animations feel like they run at 5fps.
Never had this issue on my 7+, seems like this only affects 8/X devices.
Never had this issue on my 7+, seems like this only affects 8/X devices.
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Makes sense as it behaves like a CPU issue and both phones share the same processor.
That would be the battery saving feature kicking in.
Also, stop completely depleting your battery. That's generally not good practice.
Also, stop completely depleting your battery. That's generally not good practice.
Highly doubtful it’s a battery saver, never seen this on an iOS device. It’s most likely a bug that will be addressed.
Also I’m pretty sure there’s built in safeguards in 2017 to prevent damaging the battery pack. This was an issue with earlier batteries, don’t beleive it’s ever been true with an iPhone battery.
Plenty of safeguards to stop you killing the battery, I only ran it down to completely dead and charged it to 100% the first time to make sure the the OS was reading the battery percentage ok.
But this issue is not repeatable on a 7+, 6S+, 6+ and 5S.
I'm 99% sure this is just a software bug, plenty of those in iOS 11.
Even if the phone was in low power mode it would never run as crap as it does with this bug.
But this issue is not repeatable on a 7+, 6S+, 6+ and 5S.
I'm 99% sure this is just a software bug, plenty of those in iOS 11.
Even if the phone was in low power mode it would never run as crap as it does with this bug.
Well I purchased the wireless charger so it no longer needs to be plugged in. I simply point the phone in the direction of that wireless charger and it should charge by itself. However, it never seems to work.
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That sucks. I have a wireless charging car dock and it works great. Also, Apple is increasing the wireless charging from 5V to 7.5V in iOS 11.2, so that might help.
Noticed it yesterday when my X went down to 1% & went super laggy. Not sure it's a 'feature' as it never happened on my previous iPhones.
If you were starved and on the brink of death, you would slow down too.
Apple ran a diagnostics on me and told me to stop eating fast food. Seems to have solved that problem.
My blonde wife suggest I plug the wireless charger into the wall socket to get it to work. I mean how stupid can she get? Hello, it’s a wireless charger - hello!