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Michael Glenn
Personal blog · mglenn.com/bloghardwareproductivity
Michael Glenn's personal blog at mglenn.com covers hardware and productivity. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “If Your iPhone Is Slow Try a Backup and Restore”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Glenn's December 2017 posts on Apple's iPhone battery throttling and slowdowns. Commenters cite them for the backup-and-restore or factory-reset fix for sluggish older iPhones.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Michael Glenn
Most-linked posts?
- If Your iPhone Is Slow Try a Backup and Restore5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-12-23
What Hacker News says?
I would give it a try. A reinstall of the OS is more thorough than wiping the data from it. http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
on “A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance”Submitted If Your iPhone Is Slow Try a Backup and Restore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt should not take apps 10 seconds to launch on an iPhone 6 running iOS 11. Something probably went wrong with your upgrade, which does happen. Have you tried taking a local backup, doing a factory reset of the phone, and then restoring the backup? See for example: http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
on “What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death”> All I did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better. Apparently general sluggishness is not caused by the battery, but by some rogue iOS system process (which a reset fixes). https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl... if "everything" is slow on your iPhone, it’s probably not this issue related to older batteries. A full backup…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
on “iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use”My household has both an iPhone 6 and 6s. Both have become noticeably slower, more battery consuming. I just did the full backup and restore trick. We think it worked. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl... http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea... My boss (she who must be obeyed) and I both "feel" that our phones are now more responsive and some features have resumed w…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
on “Apple faces lawsuits after admitting it slows down aging iPhones”You may be experiencing a different perf bug. "My household has both an iPhone 6 and 6s. Both have become noticeably slower, more battery consuming. I just did the full backup and restore trick. We think it worked. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl... . http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea... . My boss (she who must be obeyed) and I both "feel" that our phones are n…
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on “U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones”If you go back to how this was originally discovered, it was in public aggregate benchmarks: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an... The thing to note here is that even in the charts of older devices, by far the largest peak is at max performance. In other words, most older phones, even running the new code, were not being slowed down when they were benchmarked. There's no evidence I know of…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-feature
on “U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones”
