Kevin Purdy - Sep 12, 2022 five:11 p.m. UTC

While the iPhone 14 hardware lineup costs successful ample portion akin to the preceding generation, the outgo of replacing the artillery has agelong past up extensively, surpassing the expenses Apple was charging earlier its 2016/2017 "Batterygate" reckoning.

Enlarge / iPhone 14 artillery replacement charges astatine an Apple Store, arsenic shown connected Apple's enactment site.Replacing the artillery successful immoderate of the iPhone 14 models will outgo $ninety nine, up from the $69 Apple prices for the thirteen, 12, 11, and X strains. The newest iPhone SE and iPhones wrong the 8 and older bid interest $49. Those fees are for out-of-guarantee and non-AppleCare+ replacements astatine an Apple Store, portion charges astatine authorized Apple reconstruct stores whitethorn additionally vary.

Apple mostly simplest replaces a artillery wrong AppleCare+ work if the tool's artillery wellness is astatine 80 percent oregon decrease. Apple states that its batteries are rated to closing 500 cycles earlier hitting eighty percent, adjacent though elements similar temperature, leaving the artillery astatine debased rate, and others tin little artillery lifespan fast.

While a forty 3 percent terms maturation to update a artillery it is pretty comparable to the lone successful the iPhone thirteen is tremendous, Apple's astir up-to-date artillery pricing is immoderate happening of a correction from a prior, a large deal-publicized deviation.

Battery replacements connected an iPhone 6 and aboriginal outgo $seventy 9 till past owed 2017, portion Apple's quiet, undocumented wont of slowing down older telephones precocious from crowdsourced benchmark concept to an apology from Apple and, unavoidably, a "Batterygate" moniker.

In summation to an bonzer acknowledgment of a mistake, Apple temporarily reduced the interest of non-warranty/AppleCare artillery replacements to $29. That lasted done 2018, nevertheless Apple nevertheless discounted its caller artillery pricing via $10 from pre-"gate" ranges successful 2019, charging $69. That pricing held until the iPhone 14.

The endeavor has besides measurement by measurement introduced artillery wellness information to iOS, giving owners a analyse their maximum capableness and indications whether their instrumentality mightiness beryllium slowed down to grip weaker artillery voltage—in lawsuit you've mounted a actual Apple battery, astatine least.

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