Small But Increasing Number Of iPhone 8 Plus Devices Burst Open Has Surfaced, Possible Due To Battery Failure

According to MacRumors , one of their reader Anthony Wu‏, said he recently bought an iPhone 8 Plus, but later he was forced to return it be...

According to MacRumors, one of their reader Anthony Wu‏, said he recently bought an iPhone 8 Plus, but later he was forced to return it because the display popped out. The damage was presumably caused by a defective battery inside the iPhone that swelled and placed pressure on the assembly.

The Blog also received a similar photo today of an iPhone 8 Plus with the display burst open from iRepair, an Apple Devices shop in Greece. In this case, we're told the customer unboxed the device last night, plugged it in overnight, which the customer was supposedly using only an official Apple power adapter and Lightning to USB cable, and in the morning it looked as it does in the picture below.

With millions of iPhones coming off the production line overseas, and thereby millions of lithium-ion batteries being manufactured, it's common in the industry for there to be a very low percentage of defective units. For that reason, five cases of suspected iPhone 8 Plus battery failure out of millions of devices probably isn't much cause for full-blown concern at this point.

There are at least five cases of possible iPhone 8 Plus battery failure, following social media reports in Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong last week. Following the first two reports, an Apple spokeswoman says that the company is "aware" and "looking into" the matter. At present, Apple didn't respond anything yet.

Via MacRumors, Image Via MacRumors