Apple is exploring using new expertise that may ease the method of changing the battery on future iPhone fashions, in line with a report. The Cupertino firm was beforehand stated to be transforming the design of its battery casing, which might be used as a part of the corporate’s efforts to simplify the method of decoupling the battery from an iPhone. Apple has but to announce any plans to make iPhone batteries extra replaceable, which might be prompted by incoming EU rules which can be anticipated to mandate detachable batteries on electronics.
The Info reports (via 9to5Mac) that Apple is engaged on a brand new methodology to exchange the battery on an iPhone. The “electrically induced adhesive debonding” expertise will permit customers to take away the battery from the within of the iPhone by “administering a small jolt of electrical energy to the battery”, in line with the report, that cites folks acquainted with the corporate’s plans.
Apple’s present iPhone fashions are geared up with batteries which can be lined in foil, and held in place utilizing strips of adhesive, which implies customers have to utilise a pair of tweezers to pry the unit out of the handset’s chassis. This is not a user-friendly course of — you may learn extra about it on Apple’s support page.
In accordance with the report, the corporate might encase future iPhone batteries in metallic as an alternative of foil, enabling the brand new expertise to “dislodge” the battery and change it. Whereas this could be simpler than trying to drag the battery out of the handset, the corporate will reportedly proceed to advise customers to not try repairs on their very own.
The publication states that Apple is seeking to equip one mannequin from the iPhone 16 sequence of smartphones this 12 months with batteries which can be simpler to exchange, whereas the expertise might be accessible on all of subsequent 12 months’s fashions. Final 12 months, a picture of a purported iPhone 16 Pro battery with a metal shell was leaked on-line.
Given Apple’s tendency to maintain its {hardware} modifications and enhancements below wraps till its units are unveiled, we will anticipate to be taught extra in regards to the expertise — if it exists — within the coming months, when the iPhone 16 sequence is unveiled.
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