Apple is considerably rising costs for out-of-warranty battery replacements, this time for the iPhone 16 Professional fashions.
The brand new price of an out-of-warranty battery substitute for the 2 bigger fashions of the most recent iPhone is $119, up from the $99 price for the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max. The price stays $99 for the common iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
Apple final elevated the price of out-of-warranty battery substitute with the iPhone 14 fashions in 2022. Costs went up from $69 to $99.
As all new iPhones include a minimum of one yr of AppleCare guarantee, the change is just not anticipated to be felt by new patrons anytime quickly. AppleCare+ warranties might be bought to cowl the price of most repairs for 3 years or longer.
Underneath AppleCare, customers can request a free battery substitute service if the battery can not retain a minimum of 80 p.c of its unique capability. iPhone batteries are designed to retain 80 p.c of their unique capability at 500 full cost cycles below supreme situations, whereas the batteries of the iPhone 15 and later fashions are designed to retain 80 p.c of their unique capability at 1000 full cost cycles below supreme situations, in keeping with Apple.
Along with being bigger, the batteries within the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max fashions are stated to have a brand new steel shell to assist enhance warmth dissipation. This would possibly require further labor to interchange these batteries, which can clarify the substitute price improve, first famous by MacRumors.
The value for a substitute battery for older out-of-warranty iPhones varies by mannequin. All fashions of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 14 can have batteries changed for $99, whereas most now-vintage models will see costs of $89 — excluding the iPhone SE and the iPhone 8, which retain their $69 battery substitute payment.