iPhone 6 Battery Replacement

[gplracer]

Yes

 

[Herr Kutz]

What is the 2-5 week wait for? $29 is a very reasonable price in my opinion. It includes installation, too. I work at Geek Squad, and we do the battery swaps in store. The batteries were backordered for a while, but we have most of them in stock now (varies by store). Each one requires approval from Apple, and if there are any issues found with the phone like 3rd party tampering, we have to escalate it to them and they usually deny the repair. Our best tech has been doing them 40 hours a week since we started, and it takes him about half an hour. When he first started doing them they took almost two hours each. For them having to restart production on four different battery lines that haven't been made in like two years, $29 is pretty damn reasonable, and likely is barely covering the installation labor they are paying out.

Does BestBuy do home button replacements too or is going to an Apple store required to get touchID functionality to work?

 

[Herr Kutz]

Well, the replacement has swelled making most of the screen stuck out a few millimeters from the device. It restarts very often (usually okay if it’s plugged in) and gets stuck trying to boot until there is zero charge left so it is unusable. I happened to be near SLC at the time so picked up a 256gb iPhone 8. Couldn’t wait for the SE2.

P.S., the girl at the apple store who helped me was probably the best smelling person I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and the outdoor shopping mall where the apple store is located looks absolutely amazing (as did the apple store clerk).