It'll cost more to fix your iPhone, Mac, and iPad in 2023 - Macworld

With much radical holding onto their iPhones and iPads longer, smaller repairs are indispensable to support devices moving longer. And successful 2023, Apple volition commencement charging much for 1 of the astir communal fixes: aging batteries.

An eagle-eyed Redditor has spotted a enactment connected Apple’s iPhone Battery Service enactment papers informing users that the “current out-of-warranty artillery work interest volition use until the extremity of February 2023. Effective March 1, 2023, the out-of-warranty artillery work interest volition beryllium accrued by $20 for each iPhone models anterior to iPhone 14.”

iPad artillery replacements volition besides summation by $20 for each models but the newest iPad Pro and entry-level iPad. And if your Mac needs a caller battery, Apple volition complaint $30 much for each MacBook Air models and an other $50 for each MacBook and MacBook Pro models.

Apple besides sells artillery replacements for immoderate iPhone models done its Self Service Repair Store for $69 but hasn’t said whether that outgo volition beryllium expanding arsenic well. Battery replacements are covered by Apple’s one-year warranty and AppleCare+, though Apple cautions that the warranty “doesn’t screen batteries that deterioration down from mean use.”

Apple already hiked the terms of artillery replacements for the iPhone 14 from $69 to $99 and M2 iPad Pro from $99 to $149 (11-inch) and $179 (12.9-inch). Apple besides charges $119 to regenerate the artillery successful the 10th-gen iPad and $99 for the 9th-gen and earlier models.

It’s not wide if Apple volition statesman charging much for different services specified arsenic surface repair successful 202, so, if you’ve been putting disconnected getting your Apple instrumentality fixed, you should astir apt enactment it connected your to-do database sooner than later.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor