I don't think we need to compare with Samsung. We should evaluate this as it is, and from that POV, Apple should definitely do something about this.
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More Incidents Surface of iPhone 8 Plus Devices Burst Open Due to Possible Battery Failure
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So far.....and yet.....Uhhhh its 5 devices and not one has caught fire.
Yeah iOS 11.0.2a will be out soon.
Nope, just moved it to the iOS 11 QA team.......
Vitriol towards Apple on this forum is in abundance. Which forum are you visiting?
You’re a great example. Oh wait, you’re just “not a fanboy” I bet, you call em like you see em. Keep spreading truth to all these blind nerds on MR. Good job.
I'm surprised to see this happening, doesnt Apple test their products extensively with employees carrying them around for months (although in mocked-up / different shell)? Unless they weren't able to this time. Also surprised its happening with the 8 as its more or less a 7 but glass-backed. Common component here and with Samsung's debacle is the battery. They're probably pushing like max nowadays and/or Apple and Samsung's tolerances are too much as the race to go big and slim at the same time.
When they are reported correctly they are - that's how statistics works. It's like reporting there are MORE SHARK ATTACKS and basing an article (this is a made up example) on absolute number rather than adjusting for 1) human population growth, 2) (estimated) number of people going to beaches, 3) shark populations, 4) ocean temperatures, 5) time of day, 6) time of year, etc.
It’s only a “gate” for the immature. For others, it’s an issue that’ll be addressed.
I think this is just a result of the sheer manufacturing scale that the battery supplier is delivering to Apple. Millions of batteries, swelling is a known issue with this chemical composition, so we're going to see failures now and again.
This held true for every model of iphone since the "sandwhich" assembly started. You get a dud once in a while. It sucks for new owners, but I don't believe (at this point) this is a design failure/flaw. It's merely the law of big numbers coming into play.
My mom had the same exact thing happen to her watch series 2. Battery was inflated to the point the screen popped off. Apple was no help and blamed it on the charger. Show me ANY charger that charges the watch!!!
My AW series 2 had a battery failure as well. It didn't swell, but got extremely hot and then the watch died completely. Apple replaced it. Batteries fail.
as long as you don’t abandon these forums, there’ll be plenty of vitriol going around.
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Yep, that hardly makes it a mass issue.
This will go down like the fake bend gate for the iPhone 7.
Yea this sucks. Hate to see it. I don't have a 8, waiting for the X. Hope it don't have the same problem.
This gets said every year when some random issue occurs that is later fixed anyway. People these days have freaking gold fish memory
Exactly. Just get it replaced and move on. Simple
The battery in 8 is different from the one in 7, though (lower capacity in 8), so something might have gone wrong during the manufacturing.
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And so many people here desperate to NOT equate this to the Note7 issues.
Business as usual?
If there ends up being more than the handful there are now, it will certainly blow up. No pun intended.
Oh no! Swollen Battery Pushed Out Screen-gate!!!
A small but increasing number of iPhone 8 Plus owners have shared pictures of their devices burst open due to possible battery failure.
iPhone 8 Plus with display popped out via MacRumors reader Anthony Wu
MacRumors reader Anthony Wu?, from Toronto, Canada, said he bought and unboxed a new iPhone 8 Plus on Sunday, but he was forced to return it by Monday after the display popped out. The damage was presumably caused by a defective battery inside the iPhone that swelled and placed pressure on the assembly.
We also received a similar photo today of an iPhone 8 Plus with the display burst open from iRepair, an iPhone, iPad, and Mac repair shop in Greece. In this case, we're told the customer unboxed the device last night, plugged it in overnight, and in the morning it looked as it does in the picture below.
In the latter case, the customer was supposedly using only an official Apple power adapter and Lightning to USB cable.
There are now at least five cases of possible iPhone 8 Plus battery failure, following reports in Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong last week.
Following the first two reports, an Apple spokeswoman told MacRumors that the company is "aware" and "looking into" the matter. But the company didn't immediately respond to our request for an update on the status of the investigation. Apple routinely looks into any possible safety concerns with its devices.
With millions of iPhones coming off the production line overseas, and thereby millions of lithium-ion batteries being manufactured, it's common in the industry for there to be a very low percentage of defective units.
For that reason, five cases of suspected iPhone 8 Plus battery failure out of millions of devices probably isn't much cause for full-blown concern at this point, but we'll continue to monitor the situation to see if a larger trend develops.
By comparison, there were reportedly hundreds of Galaxy Note 7 devices with critical battery-related failures before Samsung recalled and discontinued the device. Some of the devices caught fire, as well, which posed greater safety risks that even prompted the FAA to ban the device from in-cabin use during flights.
Following a lengthy investigation, Samsung eventually admitted that the Galaxy Note 7's battery had a design flaw.
We'll update this article if Apple responds.
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