It totally fixes the problem. It makes things worse. It does nothing. There was never a problem in the first place. Those are some of the various general reactions users are having to iOS 5.0.1, Apple's update to its mobile OS is designed to address the complaints some users were having about battery drain in the iPhone 4S. Judging by customer feedback, though, not everyone is happy with the solution.
Apple ultimately decided to resolve these six-year-old court proceedings and agreed to pay $15 to each impacted iPhone 4s holder.
The Verge: All devices from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X are impacted.
Fair play to them. On the ethical hacker side of things I would use the hack as leverage against Apple to continue to support their equipment. As they just dropped support for their iPad mini2’s etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with them, they work perfectly fine but are now blocked from receiving security updates etc. So the consumer is forced to purchase a new product that does the exact same thing.
Apple is on the receiving end of a class-action lawsuit from disgruntled iPhone 4s owners. The suit, filed by Chaim Lerman and more than 100 others, alleges Apple's iOS 9 update severely degraded the smartphone's performance both in terms of third-party apps and core functionality.
Apple OSs seem to have reached the threshold of complexity wherein any further advancement reduces efficiency at the cost of features. Because just as iOS5 drains batteries in iPhones and iPads and iPod Touch's, the Lion OS does the same for portable Macs. If it goes further along this path, it just might meet up with an old friend - Microsoft.