South Korea Considering Investigation of iPhone 6s Battery Shutdown Issue

[samsveds]

I have the shutdown issue on my 6s and it ain't covered according to Apples replacement program serial checker I really hope they extend their program asap.

EDIT @c0ppo: Agreed!

 

[Zirel]

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ng-iphone-sales-in-south-korea-this-year.html

Apple is winning their home turf and Samsung can't let this happen.

If South Koreans don't own Samsungs, who will?

 

[Cineplex]

Oh good!! South Korea is on the case! I was getting worried.

 

[manu chao]

I have a 6s, and my serial number isn't covered according to Apple. Shame that my iPhone doesn't agree with them, and shuts down randomly when on 40% or less.

The problem here is that S.Korea is investigating? I believe the real problem other countries are not investigating.
I want my battery replaced, since it is faulty for no good reason. But Apple says no. Investigate away.

I have an iPhone 6 (however one acquired only 11 months ago) which yesterday shut down at >50% while I was using it outside (temperature was around freezing here). Just warming it up with my hands allowed me to restart it and it had 50% charge remaining when it booted up again.

I would still claim that this behaviour started or got noticeably worse after the installation of iOS 10 and thus still hope that a software fix could improve things.

 

[Stella]

There is nothing that pleases a Korean public official more than the opportunity to be seen to have vanquished a large foreign company.

So South Korea should just accept Apple's explanation of "not a problem"? Why should South Korea's actions worry you? Its not an issue, get on with your life!

 

[alleggerita]

Why does this reek of a salty South Korea/Samsung trying to find fault with Apple?

 

[Tubamajuba]

Why does this reek of a salty South Korea/Samsung trying to find fault with Apple?

You're going to get blasted for suggesting that, yet it was totally okay to imply judicial bias back in 2012 when Apple v. Samsung was going on.

I don't know if either allegation is true, but I do know that Samsung can do no wrong in the eyes of several prominent users around here.

 

[fourthtunz]

Proof? I want real hard proof from a nine conspiracy theory website that Samsung 'owns' and 'operates' the Korean government.

It's funny Americans say things like that when the US political system is based almost entirely on corporations funding and lobbying.. yeah just because that's how it works in America doesn't mean it's how it works elsewhere.

The US is totally owned by the 1% ..We've let the government tell us what to do.

 

[Jakexb]

I was going to snark about them singling out Apple and ignoring the Samsung exploding batteries, but apparently they had an investigation about that already. In that case, I'm totally fine with them being on top of consumer issues if they're going to do it fairly.

 

[Stella]

It does? Or protection consumers from defective batteries?

Why does this reek of a salty South Korea/Samsung trying to find fault with Apple?

 

[henryaaron]

Thought you said this site, my bad. But again, with people going in, did you expect Apple to both have supply and to drop everything to fix it?

Then they should guide you to make an appointment. Not tell you to come in. There's an interview on the internet of an Apple Store employee talking about how Apple butchered this whole thing

 

[macTW]

To be honest, if you make an appointment at the genius bar to have a specific problem fixed, Apple shouldn't give you the appointment if they know that they don't have the items in the store that are needed to fix the problem. Like if your MacBook hard drive were broken, they shouldn't give you an appointment if they don't have a replacement hard drive in store.

The way they've always worked is you need the appointment to go in and place the part order. That's how it was with my faulty iPod mini, and how it is with my MacBook Pro. I understand wanting it differently, but it isn't like Apple changed policies to inconvenience people. They've always done it this way. And if you get lucky a part is in, wonderful.

 

[B4U]

I am really starting to believe it has to do with the phones supposedly self protection against extreme temperatures. There must be a glitch that makes the phone falsely sense extreme temperatures and shuts itself off. I had my battery replaced last week and while the battery life has dramatically improved, my phone is still shutting down. It happened at 52%

My 91% battery shut down happened in room temperature...

 

[Admiral]

Proof? I want real hard proof from a nine conspiracy theory website that Samsung 'owns' and 'operates' the Korean government.

Google yerself "Republic of Samsung" there, champ.

 

[apolloa]

Google yerself "Republic of Samsung" there, champ.

Hahaha so in other words their is no proof, typical and just what I thought. It's also against forum rules to tell someone to go and Google it themselves. FYI. I shows an argument with lack of facts to back it up.