David Hanak Apple usually offers a fairly wide range of warranty and post-warranty repairs in its stores. However, what technicians in Apple stores are not allowed to do is to handle a swollen battery in any way. A newly released video on the site shows why.
Many iPhone service tasks are fairly routine, but once a technician gets their hands on an iPhone with a blown battery, the protocol for these situations is clear. Such a phone must be taken to a special box, which is located in one of the backrooms of every official Apple store. This is due to the dangerous nature of any device with a battery in this condition.
Replacement phone I got exploded in my face the other day. Luckily my work got it on video. from r/Wellthatsucks
What can happen when handling a phone with a swollen battery is clearly shown in a newly published video. The technician tries to remove the swollen battery from the phone's chassis, but during the disassembly, the outer casing is damaged and the battery subsequently explodes.
As soon as oxygen gets into the battery case (especially one damaged in this way), a violent chemical reaction begins, which usually ends in a fire, sometimes also in a small explosion. Although it only takes a few seconds for the battery to "burn out", during this time it is a very dangerous thing. Either due to burning as such or due to toxic fumes. For this reason, Apple service centers, for example, are required to have a container with sand present at workplaces where batteries are replaced. Just for the situations mentioned above.
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Petr Škuta So if you have a swollen/inflated battery on your iPhone, you'd better leave it in the hands of professionals at a certified service. As the video above shows, they're also not infallible. However, they usually have the means to adequately respond to potential inconvenience. A similar explosion of the battery in domestic conditions may threaten the further spread of the fire.
Source: Reddit
With a normal phone, everyone can replace the battery themselves without having to take it all apart, or take to service. But at Apple they said no, we don't get anything from the DIY exchange…
I want to be mad at the ranks of "reporters" or "journalists" who do not understand the topic at all and write such rubbish. The article would have been written better by my dead grandmother, because she would know how the world works. Such a fake taken from an idiotic website can really lift me up. I would ban the author from writing and make him work for his passport. Since we are in a democracy, unfortunately I can't.
DD, so you can write how it is correct.
Thank you
Jan Nesrsta, yes that's right - you can't, unfortunately not, but for God's sake...
and where is the video? I only see some photo with a sitting old man
Under the second paragraph.
Elektormobil repairers are happy when they have to take every car with batteries to a special box.
According to the description of the video, the man's replacement phone exploded the day after he got it. He's just talking about being lucky that the camera at work caught it. This is not a service technician at all and they are not trying to change the battery at all.
But why would an apple picker need to know English or write the truth?
BTW the video caption is wrong. If you looked at the video, you would see that it is a technician and he is replacing the battery, but quite unprofessionally, so if it is an iPhone, you can't tell from the video.
According to the discussion, these are the techniques of the local Internet provider. The battery was allegedly changed once and the new one inflated while charging. The colleague from whom he got the phone wanted to take a look at it.
Closed mobile phones are made both for water resistance and also for people, because they are specially created, that is, if I take an old phone and remove the battery from it and take another charger and put it in the phone without a battery, there is a big chance that I will damage the phone , so it was possible to force a claim on the mobile half a year before the end of the warranty period and no one could do anything about it, so I understand why mobiles are hermetically sealed today, so that no one can rummage around in the mobile and then push it for a claim, and I'd rather give 1200 for replacing the battery at an authorized service center where they guarantee me durability after fixing the water, rather than having to take it apart at home and then somehow put it back together..