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Welcome to Glorious episode 156 of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor Marks and joining me is Neil Hughes editor-in-chief.

What?

Rewind that one second. Joining me is Mike Wirthley.

Yeah, you and the Neil fan club, not this week, sorry.

I know, no, I, I, Neil will be back. Neil is is taking some much needed

rest and recuperation and family time and he'll be back, I promise.

Yep.

So, sorry to mislead you guys, but yeah, we miss Neil too.

Starting things off, we should talk about, well we got quite a lot to talk about actually.

So, first up is one more go at battery debacle. So Tim

Cook said in an interview on Wednesday that is yesterday's recorded this that

they're going to reveal a new iOS function that will allow owners of

iPhones with depleted batteries to disable the built-in CPU throttling. Now,

remember that the CPU throttling was a measure introduced in order to lengthen the lifespan of older batteries and

handsets. It was going to allow you to keep running the battery down until about

you know 4% or 0% of the battery life as you'd expect a battery to behave even though the

battery is depleted and it was going to prevent undervoltage of the the

main board so you don't actually damage your phone in the process of trying to

to run it with too little power. Due to all the complaints,

Apple is going to allow users to turn that function off, which means two things. One, your phone will power down spontaneously at

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