Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older batteries are “slower”

Re:Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older ba... by mikeash on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:49PM (#15973079)

iPhone batteries are replaceable. They're not trivially swapped by the user the way they are in some phones, but Apple will replace them for $79, many third parties will do it for cheaper, and technically-minded people can pretty easily do it themselves.

This is unrelated to replaceable batteries. Apple would want to do this anyway, because not everyone will replace their battery (which costs money even on phones designed to make it trivial) at the slightest sign of trouble.

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Re:Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older ba... by KirinDave on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:50PM (#15974157)

Oh yes. I forgot. You can pay a service fee to have your device performance and battery life uncapped "responsibly." Apple even licences the technicians.

Of course, since the many folks are extremely inconvenienced without a phone for a day or two for servicing, I wonder how good the uptake on the post-warranty battery replace really is. It's a 1 hour operation to replace-and-upgrade.

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Re:Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older ba... by pwinnski on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:03PM (#15975750)

What Apple charges to replace the battery is roughly what a replaceable battery from Apple would cost.

The time Apple takes to replace the batter is roughly how long it would take me to unpackaged a replaceable battery myself.

The only drawback to Apple's choice (and incidentally just about every other manufacturer's as well) is that I have to drive to a location rather than having a replacement battery delivered.

So there's a drawback, but it's not as drastic as people seem to imagine. I suspect most people are just unaware that Apple (or third parties) will perform this task so cheaply.

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Re:Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older ba... by mikeash on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:58PM (#15975079)

I’m pretty sure they replace it while you wait.

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Re:Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older ba... by KirinDave on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:51PM (#15976530)

Last time I did it (2 weeks ago) they asked us to leave it overnight, and then it wasn't ready.

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