Apple hikes price to replace iPhone batteries by $20 - CBS News

Apple volition complaint customers an other $20 to regenerate the artillery connected iPhones if the instrumentality is older than an iPhone 14, the exertion elephantine said Wednesday.

Starting successful March, anyone with an iPhone 13, 12, 11 oregon X volition person to wage $89 for a caller battery, portion replacements for iPhone 8, 7, 6, 5 and SE devices volition outgo $69. Apple is besides hiking the artillery replacement terms for the iPad by $20, the MacBook Air by $30 and the MacBook Pro by $50. 

These prices are for customers who don't person AppleCare+, the security programme the institution offers for a terms depending connected the instrumentality and exemplary year. 

The batteries connected iPhone 14 models, which were released successful 2022, are presently inactive nether Apple's default one-year warranty. The institution said it volition complaint $99 to regenerate the artillery connected those devices aft the warranty expires. 

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Here's what customers volition soon person to wage for artillery replacements for their Apple devices.

• iPad Air, Mini and Pro ($119)
• MacBook Air ($159)
• MacBook Pro ($249)

The prices screen a sojourn to an Apple store to person the artillery replaced connected site, oregon utilizing Apple's mail-in service. Customers tin besides bargain and regenerate a artillery themselves utilizing Apple's self-service repair program.

Apple's batteries became the halfway of contention 5 years agone erstwhile the company admitted it had purposely slowed down older iPhone models utilizing a bundle update to offset problems with its aging lithium-ion battery. After the signifier drew scrutiny from lawmakers, Apple apologized and past struck a $113 cardinal settlement with much than a twelve states.

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