After December 31st, you’ll have to pay full boat for a replacement iPhone battery.
Apple’s reduced rate battery replacement program will be coming to an end December 31st, 2018. Following complaints about device performance, Apple announced the replacement program in December 2017. It was set to run for a year. It meant UK customers could get a replacement in an out-of-warranty iPhone for just £25. U.S.-based users the service cost $29.
The company faced a backlash over changes in iOS designed to better manage aging batteries. These changes throttled the CPU on an iPhone with a degraded battery so that spikes in CPU power needs wouldn’t cause that iPhone to shut down. Apple had never informed consumers that it had done this, however, and customer complaints and media criticism led Apple to announce this replacement program. Apple also added information in iOS to make it clear when this was happening.
As of last year, Apple, working to reward loyalty and regain its customers’ trust, stated it would offer replacement batteries for out of warranty devices. UK users with an iPhone 6 or later model could get the replacement for £25 instead of £79. American customers received a similar offer – replacements only cost $29 instead of $79.
The program, which was slated for a year, expires on December 31st.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and support.apple.com