Apple is raising the price of iPhone battery replacements - KAKE

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business

Apple is raising the terms of artillery replacements for each out-of-warranty iPhone models anterior to the current iPhone 14 lineup, the institution confirmed connected its website.

Starting March 1, Apple volition complaint $89 for artillery replacements for iPhone X done iPhone 13 models, a $20 increase from the existent terms of a caller battery. Battery replacements for different models, specified arsenic the iPhone SE and iPhone 8, volition leap from $49 to $69.

Apple is besides raising the outgo of replacing batteries for different products. Batteries for newer iPad models volition outgo $20 more, portion it volition outgo $30 much for a caller MacBook Air artillery and $50 much for MacBook Pro models.

Apple devices typically travel with 1 twelvemonth of warranty. The changes lone use to customers who are not portion of its AppleCare+ repair work program, which provides up to 2 oregon 3 years of sum and varies successful outgo depending connected product.

Apple archetypal lowered the price of iPhone artillery replacements from $79 to $29 successful 2018, aft it was discovered that the institution deliberately slowed down the show of older iPhones to forestall abrupt artillery shutdowns. In effect to the controversy, dubbed batterygate, Apple besides issued a uncommon apology and agreed to a $113 cardinal settlement with dozens of states.

In raising prices now, Apple whitethorn beryllium responding to an uptick successful the outgo of products amid rising ostentation and proviso concatenation issues. By taking this step, Apple could besides marque it little charismatic for customers to hold upgrading their devices oregon thrust them to wage for the repair work program.

The quality comes arsenic Apple's marketplace headdress fell beneath $2 trillion in trading connected Tuesday for the archetypal clip since aboriginal 2021 and 1 twelvemonth to the time aft the institution became the archetypal nationalist tech institution valued astatine $3 trillion.

Like different tech companies, Apple has grappled with proviso concatenation hiccups and concerns that recession fears could measurement connected advertiser and user spending, including for pricier products similar the iPhone.

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