In late December 2017 there was a great roar from the Apple community that Apple was purposely slowing down iPhones in an effort to increase sales of new iPhones. It led to well over 60 class action filed against them. Apple then offered new batteries at a discounted price to improve speed. I took advantage of that and the end result for me was yet a slower iPhone.

This past August Apple began their fight against those filing class actions on this issue and in fact has now reintroduced the battery management feature in their latest iOS update as if to mock those suing them.

Yesterday the UK's Daily Mail that loves bombastic bylines posted a report titled "Outrage as Apple reveals it could slow down iPhones bought just a YEAR ago because of 'degrading batteries.' The report was pointing to Apple's latest iOS 12.1 update segment presented below.

The Daily Mail report noted yesterday that "The row over Apple's decision to slow down the performance of iPhones has resurfaced after the firm revealed its latest iOS update brings the controversial 'throttling' feature to iPhones bought just a year ago.

The firm, which was hit by a huge customer backlash after the 'batterygate' throttling was first revealed, has previously said there was no need to bring the 'performance management feature' to its latest phones.

However, the release notes for iOS 12.1, released on Tuesday, revealed Apple has brought the controversial feature to the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus - which were released just a year ago.

The performance management feature will only kick in after an iPhone has unexpectedly shutdown. At that point, Apple may throttle performance on the device to prevent further battery degradation.

'Additionally, users can see if the performance management feature that dynamically manages maximum performance to prevent unexpected shutdowns is on and can choose to turn it off,'" Apple states.

I'm not clear about the outrage other than Apple is by default implementing this feature and forcing iPhone users to shut it off. Considering the shear number of class action lawsuits filed against them you'd think that Apple would provide this as an option to turn on rather than force the user to shut off.

Lastly, it's a bit odd that the 'Outrage' at the moment seems limited to Apple UK fans. Do you have an opinion on this? Send in your comments below.