Apple has finally admitted that Bear on Disease is a real problem. Which is progress. Withal, it's not accepting the blame for this fault that'due south out there right now killing iPhones. What's more, it's charging customers to repair the problem. Which is the contrary of progress.

In Baronial of this year, a rather serious flaw with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus reared its ugly head. Labeled Affect Illness, this flaw turns your iPhone into a rather expensive brick. What starts out as a flickering gray bar at the elevation of your touchscreen somewhen renders your phone unusable.

The clever bods over at iFixit quickly identified the problem, and others accept since confirmed the ultimate crusade of Bear on Disease. It'due south claimed it all leads dorsum to the integrated circuit chips which ability and control the touchscreen, and the fashion they're soldered to the logic board.

If this is true, then Touch Disease is acquired past a blueprint flaw. Apple changed something, and it may have straight led to iPhones stopping working. Perhaps Jony Ive should have spent less fourth dimension putting together Apple's $300 coffee table volume and more than time designing the iPhone vi and iPhone 6 Plus.

Apple Will Fix Touch Illness... For a Price

Apple tree has stayed silent on this outcome for months. If a customer complained that their iPhone had stopped working they were advised to simply buy a new iPhone. So people turned to third-party iPhone repairers instead, who were able to fix Touch Affliction without too much hassle.

Now, however, Apple has launched its "Multi-Touch Repair Programme for iPhone 6 Plus". Which sees Apple offering to gear up your iPhone for but $149. Unfortunately this but applies to iPhone 6 Plus owners, with Apple tree still refusing to fifty-fifty admit the iPhone six is adversely affected.

So why is Apple charging y'all to fix a trouble information technology caused in the first place? Because Apple is refusing to take the blame, claiming that iPhones are suffering catastrophic failure "subsequently being dropped multiple times on a hard surface and then incurring further stress on the device". In other words it'south all your fault. So pay upwards or else.

Samsung took a lot of flak for the Galaxy Notation vii's exploding batteries. But at to the lowest degree it (eventually) admitted the problem and issued a global call back of all handsets. Apple won't fifty-fifty admit it might be at fault here, permit lone offer to fix the trouble for free.

Do yous own an iPhone 6 or iPhone vi Plus? Take y'all had to bargain with Touch Disease? If and then, practice you lot think dropping your iPhone immediately prior to the problem occurring? What do you recall of Apple tree'south attitude to this whole thing? Please permit us know in the comments section below!

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