Apple to Offer $29 iPhone Battery Replacements, More Battery Health Info in iOS

[617660]

Apple just out spec’d the Phone’s cpu, camera, screen, speakers, etc... compared to what the battery could power. They didn’t do this with the 5S or earlier, but they did it with the 6(or is it the 6s) or later.

Couple that with Apple’s lust for thinner and thinner phones, sacrificing battery volume to meet that goal.

Don’t believe me? Look at Apple’s actions as proof.

In many ways, putting in an inferior battery is the right business decision to sabotage a device.

99% of iDevice users would be clueless when you talk to them about battery size, peak power and current. Since Apple knows everything that goes into the device, they knew they can cheap out on the battery and nobody would notice.

It worked out for many years.

 

[deany]

I'm curious if apple is willing to service a phone already with a third party battery. Got two 6 with ifixit batteries and would like to take advantage of the $29 official battery.

Same here, I'm hoping no problem as iPhone 6 is not in Warranty.
But would like confirmation.

 

[happyprozak]

Are you kidding? It's not my business because I'm not an engineer? I install iOS 11 on my $750 iPhone and suddenly it slows to a crawl and freezes and does not work as it did before the "upgrade". And I'm supposed to just be okay with this because the engineers know what's best? Obviously they don't know best and they made a huge mistake.

Let's not forget that they made this change in a completely non-transparent way.

Oh, but Apple can do no wrong, eh?

I've used Apple products for 25 years and this is without a doubt the sleaziest and worst decision they ever made.

I'm sorry, but your comment is the most brainwashed pro-Apple thing I've ever read.

I wouldn’t waste my time with these Apple apologists. Apple is their god, their religion.

Or hey, it’s just for the paycheck!

 

[falainber]

Bigger will do nothing. You are confusing current and power.

Am I? Don't iPads have the same (and even more powerful) processors and yet they don't start shutting down randomly within warranty period? The bigger battery automatically mean fewer recharge cycles in the same time period hence less degradation and therefore higher current.

 

[Idefix]

Imagine, in a different world, that you had an iPhone where you just pushed a button and your battery popped out. You slip a new battery in, easy peasy.

Oh wait, that's gonna incense a whole bunch of people...

Anyway, the Apple Appeasement doesn't help my 5S, sadly. It's not worthy of appeasement?

 

[macmanmass]

So basically they blatantly mislead consumers and suddenly they’re heros for only charging us $29 to fix they’re mistake? Will we seriously eat any **** liberal Timmy and his Steve wannabes throw at us? This is insane people! They’re making money off of this scheme and people are buying into it! Had every iPhone since the original, looks like it’s Google pixel 2 for me!

 

[cmaier]

A reasonable action would be to provide users with a warning to replace your battery. Letting the phone shut off is a much better indicator you need to replace the battery than deliberately slowing down the device. Indicators don't lead to quicker device upgrades though.

They don’t deliberately slow the device. They deliberately throttle instantaneous current demand from the battery. CPU speed is a side-effect, not the goal.

 

[Black Magic]

This is the response I wanted to see from Apple. I would like to see the battery price cut to $29 permanently and for all iPhones however.

 

[cmaier]

Am I? Don't iPads have the same (and even more powerful) processors and yet they don't start shutting down randomly within warranty period? The bigger battery automatically mean fewer recharge cycles in the same time period hence less degradation and therefore higher current.

iPads tend to see less thermal cycling, which is a big part of the problem.

 

[tkukoc]

Well this has been completely overblown and yet they still make a change. How about all the complainers of battery degradation put their time into complaining about something legit like how the OS is stale and we need a full blown new OS to go along with the future X type devices. There's something I can get behind.. but battery issues.. psh.. there wasn't anything here to begin with.

 

[macmanmass]

Well this has been completely overblown and yet they still make a change. How about all the complainers of battery degradation put their time into complaining about something legit like how the OS is stale and we need a full blown new OS to go along with the future X type devices. There's something I can get behind.. but battery issues.. psh.. there wasn't anything here to begin with.

Agree with the stale OS. Apple has turned into a bunch of android copycats. OS X is so out of date.

 

[macmanmass]

Agree with the stale OS. Apple has turned into a bunch of android copycats. OS X is so out of date.

Make that iOS. But OS X isn’t that great either.

 

[falainber]

iPads tend to see less thermal cycling, which is a big part of the problem.

Do you mean to say that the bigger battery would mitigate the problem?

 

[617660]

Well this has been completely overblown and yet they still make a change. How about all the complainers of battery degradation put their time into complaining about something legit like how the OS is stale and we need a full blown new OS to go along with the future X type devices. There's something I can get behind.. but battery issues.. psh.. there wasn't anything here to begin with.

Apple already issued an apology. What do you mean there wasn't anything to begin with?

 

[cmaier]

Do you mean to say that the bigger battery would mitigate the problem?

No. Higher current capacity, not higher power storage (ie bigger) battery would solve it.

 

[secone]

Amazing news and uncalled for. I imagine all the trolls will have to find something else to whine about. Apple has stepped up and addressed something that was not a big deal.
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Android "Oh crap. Hope they don't find out how we make incompatible OS, Apps and everything else crappy"

Not a big deal to you. But most thinking people realize that Apple broke faith with their customers by making a arbitrary decision and not informing their customer base about this far reaching approach.

I have used Apple products exclusively for years now, but recent actions by Apple show me that they do not really care about me as a customer:

• Customer focused company would have educated their valued customer base about battery issues. Less than 1l year ago Apple was still making statements like you will never need a battery replacement. Now they say that batteries must be replaced, and then hobble or brake a phone via software just because they are all powerful Apple and they can do this.
• Apple allow UBER app unprecedented access by turning on key logger access to all Iphone's via the Uber APP. This is NOT COOL that a company like Apple decided that a APP provider has access to anything I type on my IPhone.
• IOS 11 has been the most bug ridden OS I have used in some time.
• MACOS 11.13 had huge gaping security holes like a default admin account with no password.

Maybe these types of things are a nothing to you, but most loyal customers like me may think that Apple has totally lost their way as to quality or customer concern from the software side of the house.

Apple's approach has disgusted me, and for the first time I am strongly considering not buying a Iphone for my next phone. What once was a great company has lost their way from the software point of view IMO.

 

[TokMok3]

wait... I'm going to prepare more popcorn.

 

[lenard]

The next IOS update will not support iPhone 6....

 

[falainber]

No. Higher current capacity, not higher power storage (ie bigger) battery would solve it.

OK, I see you just don't want to admit that Apple screwed up. Obviously the new battery has enough current capacity and current capacity drops with each recharge cycle. Bigger battery means fewer recharge cycles and thus preserves current capacity longer.

 

[Count Blah]

Well this has been completely overblown and yet they still make a change. How about all the complainers of battery degradation put their time into complaining about something legit like how the OS is stale and we need a full blown new OS to go along with the future X type devices. There's something I can get behind.. but battery issues.. psh.. there wasn't anything here to begin with.

“It didn’t impact me, so it wasn’t an issue at all.”

Gotta love it!

 

[tylerthomas28]

They don’t deliberately slow the device. They deliberately throttle instantaneous current demand from the battery. CPU speed is a side-effect, not the goal.

If it wasn't the goal then they would have been transparent about their intentions from the beginning. Wise consumers just caught them red handed.

 

[yanki01]

I've posted before iOS 10.2.1 killed my iPhone 6. I noticed something was wrong. it was never the same after that.

 

[deferredAnon]

I hope Apple also allows the option for USER CONTROL of these battery saving 'features'.

 

[Royksöpp]

I would rather have to recharge my phone more frequently than have it slowed down.

 

[Mc0]

Here here can we have another public outcry regarding the battery capacity? Perhaps it could persuade Apple to introduce 3k+ mah battery in the next gen iPhones.