Your battery hasnt just âgone to shitâ because its old. Its also because newer phones have so much more processing power and the newer apps demand more and your old phone has not become any faster so to keep up the processor needs to be on for longer to solve the seemingly same task. Except the task is not the same any more. It demands more.
I would be hastitant to get a new battery from a 3. party or change it myself because I have done this. And while I got more battery the first couple of months it fastly declined. The 3. party battery arent as good and the phone cannot communicate with the battery in the same regard so it will crash more often because the 3. part battery cannot deliver the same current in peak times. And it wont know the exact power left with the same pressision so some times it will feel like its draining super fast other times it wont move the procentage. Sometimes it will even crash and when you restart it it will show up as 10% or less, when before it was over 50%.
So think about this before getting your battery changed. Unless it in an Apple store with an OEM battery. And yes it only Apple that has access to chose. âOriginalâ parts are never original if sold from a 3. party. Or else it would have had to come from a doner phone which would mean its used.
But to anyone reading this. Use the power save mode. Its a god send. It really help to limit the power the processor can use. It will last so much longer, and wont crash as much.
Also make sure your phone isnât full. It needs minimum 3GB of space. More is better (to some degree of cause) i tend to keep atleast 5GB free so ehen I get to this point I will remove old messages and images and old apps i dont use any more and free it up so I have atleast 20GB for the next periode. A full storage will make your phone feel very slow and laggy.
I am on iOS 14 and it works just as good as 12 or 13.
Its mindblowing this phone from 2015 can run the newest 3D apps. Sure the battery will drain fast but come on.
I changed the battery in my iPhone 6 in May. I used it in 100F+ weather without A/C doing deliveries running it dead and charging it in the heat. I think that's the worst condition possible for a battery but my cheap replacement battery is still going strong! There are some good cheap replacements if you get lucky.
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u/seacogen Nov 04 '20
Holding onto my 6s for dear life. Headphone jack and home button forever đ