Thursday, 1 March 2018

I got my iPhone’s battery replaced and I’m angry Apple didn’t tell me sooner

The iPhone 6S Plus from 2015 — old tech, but more than useable (with a new battery)

Two weeks ago I went to an Apple store and had a new battery put in my iPhone 6S. The very next day I realized how unusable my old battery had been making my phone.

The repair restored functionality that had been seeping away so slowly I hadn’t really registered the loss. Apps now load when I tap them, not when they feel like it. The keyboard doesn’t freeze when I try to reply to emails in Outlook. My phone no longer clings to its charging cable like it’s a hospital drip, and the battery itself has stopped taking surprise nosedives from 40 percent charge down to zero when I have the temerity to go outside in the cold. (Yes, cold weather kills batteries.) The trust is back in my relationship with my phone, but as a result I trust Apple a...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/1/17066242/iphone-battery-replacement-slowing-old-phones-waste-repair

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/03/i-got-my-iphones-battery-replaced-and.html

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