iPhone 6 Battery Replacement Program Rumor Quickly Debunked

While rumors circulated that Apple was planning to launch a wide-ranging iPhone 6 battery replacement program, spreading through the web like wildfire early Tuesday morning, it now appears that the original report is actually false — and therefore, said battery replacement program will not be offered, at least for the time being, according to AppleInsider.

The report that such a program was in the works originally surfaced courtesy of the popular and historically accurate Japanese blog, Macotokara. Interesting but unsurprisingly, however, the report stopped short of providing any additional details about why — or for what reasons, in particular — the supposed iPhone 6 battery replacement program was even being launched in the first place.

So maybe it comes without much surprise, then, that Apple caught wind of the suspect report and immediately sought to extinguish the fiery flames of misunderstanding.

“We constantly evaluate service statistics,” an anonymous Apple source told AppleInsider. “There are no plans or grounds for a wide iPhone 6 battery exchange program at this time.”

Looks like won’t be an iPhone 6 battery replacement program, at least for right now, of course. AppleInsider, under the guise of its own, independent research, indicated that they had reached out to over 40 different Apple retail stores across the U.S., and not a single one of them produced evidence suggesting even the slightest uptick in iPhone 6 service appointments over the last 6-month period.

Of course, Apple’s current iPhone 6s battery replacement program, which was initially launched back in November of 2015, is still very much alive and in full swing; although, a similar program for the iPhone 5, which was launched back in 2014, recently ended just last August after a nearly two-year process that saw hundreds of thousands of iPhone 5 owners go in to have their device’s batteries swapped.

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