Apple hikes the price of iPhone battery replacements by $20 - CNBC

Out-of-warranty iPhone owners volition soon person to walk much to regenerate their batteries astatine an Apple store, Apple said this week.

Starting connected March 1, each older iPhones that came retired earlier 2022 volition spot their artillery replacement fees summation by $20, Apple said connected its website. Currently, the proprietor of an iPhone 13 oregon older telephone volition wage $69 for a caller battery. In March, Apple volition complaint $89.

Battery terms increases besides use to immoderate iPads and MacBook laptops and successful immoderate planetary markets arsenic well.

Currentlly, each iPhone 14 models are nether warranty, and if thing goes incorrect Apple volition hole the telephone for free. But erstwhile they commencement to look from warranty connected the one-year day of purchase, Apple volition complaint $99 to regenerate the batteries successful them.

The determination shows that Apple is inactive adjusting prices successful effect to higher costs for labor and parts. Although ostentation has precocious slowed successful the U.S., Apple said past year that ostentation had affected its business, and it raised iPhone prices successful respective planetary markets.

The alteration could besides punctual much radical to upgrade their phones to a caller exemplary alternatively of replacing the battery. It could besides thrust users to non-Apple repair stores for little prices.

Changes successful Apple's artillery replacement interest person affected iPhone income successful the past.

In precocious 2017, users discovered that Apple had added immoderate bundle codification that slowed down iPhones with older batteries erstwhile they were moving debased connected power, truthful it would instrumentality longer for them to unopen down entirely.

The revelation became a ungraded for Apple, forcing the institution to respond to Congress and wage planetary fines. Its solution to customers astatine the clip was to connection artillery replacements for $29, versus the older terms of $79. The artillery replacements were massively fashionable and tons of iPhone owners opted for the inexpensive tune-up, straining Apple's retail stores earlier the programme ended and prices roseate again.

In 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed to the $29 artillery replacements arsenic 1 crushed for lower-than-expected iPhone income astatine the clip successful a missive to investors.