Aging all batteries and the lithium ion -battery in your iPhone is no exception. The battery deteriorates overtime, which means that it can no longer keep as much load as possible if it was new. After a few years of using the phone, you may find that your phone needs more frequent juice-ups all day.
If this happens to you, you don’t have to buy a new iPhone. Instead, You can simply replace the battery at relatively inexpensive costs. Depending on your iPhone, you may not only notice an increase in the charger, but also a performance boost, since iOS slows down the processing performance of your iPhone if the battery is too deteriorated.
Although it is possible to replace your battery, this could certainly be easier. Apple secures the battery in most iPhones with strong adhesives. To remove it, you need to attract some tabs that are easy to break, which makes the distance process more precarious than it should be. The battery itself is also fragile and you have to remove and repeat some very sensitive cables. Despite all of this, it is possible to replace your battery yourself, but it is easier to choose a repair workshop. (Apple would prefer to use its own.)
All in all, the process with three of the iPhone 16 devices is particularly easier -including the iPhone 16 devices Newly published iPhone 16e.
Some iPhone 16S use a different adhesive
The iPhone 16, 16 Plus and 16e All ships have a new type of battery glue This makes repairs easier. At first glance, not much seems to have changed: If you open the back case of your iPhone, you will still find a tab on your battery. However, this tab should not yet be drawn. Instead, you have to apply an electrical current via the adhesive that holds the battery to the device for 60 seconds. The electricity is sufficient to make the battery loose. At this point, use the tab to carefully pull the battery away from the iPhone. You don’t have to worry about damaging the battery because the battery is so loose. Gravity could remove it.
How iFixit explainsThe technology oxidizes the adhesive with the electrical current. This breaks the bonds that actually make the adhesive adhesive so that it is no longer liable to the surface to which it was connected. It’s pretty technical and I’m not an expert, but it is Really Cool technology – and something that enables the battery in your iPhone 16, 16 plus or 16e safer and easier.
Apple probably did not publish these changes from his concern for customers. Instead, it is probably a reaction to an EU law This requires smartphones to have “interchangeable batteries” by 2027. Europe has had quite an impact on Apple’s decisions in recent years and has committed the company to do so Open many of his closed platformsincluding Independent app stores and browser on iOS.
However, if you have an iPhone 16 Pro or 16 Pro Max, your batteries will not be easier to repair. These devices are still equipped with Apple’s traditional battery glue, so that their batteries are as difficult to replace. It is not clear why Apple has decided to skip this new adhesive on the pro phrase, but it is possible that it simply beats the fresh technology on some of its devices, not all -especially if there is still time before this EU law. Perhaps the entire iPhone 17 line, per iPhones and all easy-to-move batteries. At the moment it only seems to benefit the cheaper models.
The iPhone 16E also has additional repairability
In addition to this new adhesive, Apple added some additional repair benefits to the 16E. The biggest is that Apple now has a guide to repair the USB-C charging connection on this special iPhone. For the first time, the company issued a manual for such a repair.
As IFIXIT reports, this repair is not simply. A series of iPhone components are removed by connection, including the rear glass, the front camera, the top speaker, the battery. Lift the logic disc Then Access the USB-C connection to repair it. This was apparently the process before, but now Apple has a step-by-step instructions that confirm the difficulty of the repair.
After all, you don’t have to be so careful when you open the rear cover on the 16e: one of the metal clips that hold the back on the spot now protects an important flex cable. With other iPhones you can cut this cable lightly while opening the pick tools when opening the picking tool. However, the clip here ensures that you do not damage the cable.
