[iiiggglll]

I agree with most of what you wrote, and I do think it was the right call for them to implement this feature for iPhones with batteries having trouble, and I agree most if not all the articles about this have been poorly written and badly misinformed. However...

> for the "Apple should have been transparent" crowd, here's what it said in the release notes

I can't agree that that's sufficient. That little one liner in the release notes just isn't enough.

On macOS, they did more. The battery menu extra will actually display a warning when clicked if it detects that your battery is having trouble. It shows as an extra row at the top of the drop-down menu with a little little caution triangle icon and the string "Service Battery". When you click this, it takes you to a help article advising you to "take your computer in for service". It's not perfect, but it's better than not telling the user anything.

Apple could and should have done something similar on iOS, especially given that there's a whole section in Settings for just the battery. They could have displayed a similar alert icon with similar help text, for starters. A full-screen alert advising the user to get their battery serviced whenever this condition was detected would have been even better. Burying it as a single sentence in the release notes wasn't all that helpful or informative for customers.

[IBM]

They did in the 10.2.1 update [1]. As well as interviews with the tech press about it [2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207453

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/apple-says-ios-10-2-1-has-...

[CoolGuySteve]

My iPhone 6 is benchmarking at 25% lower than the average when fully charged and this warning is not being displayed. So clearly shenanigans are at play.

[shawnz]

Are you testing on a fresh install of iOS with no background apps?

[CoolGuySteve]

Yes and yes. My experience is shared with a lot of other random commenters. Clearly the threshold for this battery warning is lower that the threshold for throttling.