Apple has started offering Battery swaps for $29 (a month earlier than promised), after apologizing to prospects for slowing older iPhones down as a result of the batteries aged. However, the company did not clarify the best way it licensed batteries as eligible for the discounted different, as a result of the Apple Genius Bar makes use of a diagnostic test to look at whether or not or not a battery can retain 80 p.c of its distinctive functionality at 1,000 full price cycles. This led to some confusion over the weekend, with some prospects claiming that Apple denied them a battery swap since their items handed the diagnostic test.

Apple has now confirmed to MacRumors that it will replace batteries on an iPhone 6 or later, regardless of whether or not or not or not a diagnostic test reveals that the battery retains decrease than 80 p.c of its distinctive functionality. The clarification acquired right here after the company reportedly handed alongside an inside memo referring to the model new different protection, together with that prospects who paid $79 for a battery swap earlier to the present are eligible for a refund in value distinction. Though Apple doesn’t have in mind battery scenario inside the different present, it’s vital to note that it might not replace your battery if it finds totally different harm to the phone, or if there are third-party elements in your machine.

Apple slowing down older items has been a long-held rumor, and this newest information has led to a quantity of class movement lawsuits.