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How to draw more life out of your phone’s battery

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Apple recently got into trouble for slowing the speed of its older phones, but while customers weren’t happy about this, it appears there was good reasoning behind it.

According to Apple, they were throttling their phones because of battery degradation – our smartphones’ ability to keep charge degrades over time due to the physics of how a battery works.

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