<story><title>Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aejnsn</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t go buy a BMW anytime soon.&lt;p&gt;Have to recode the battery, and it&amp;#x27;s been that way for years.</text></item><item><author>roboys</author><text>My guess is Apple is bored of truly innovating and now has to resort to nickle-diming customers to hit quarterly numbers.&lt;p&gt;Tim Cook put on his &amp;quot;Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again&amp;quot; hat.</text></item><item><author>sjwright</author><text>It won’t be for no reason.&lt;p&gt;If their battery health tightly calibrated to report on Apple’s OEM battery, it could provide misleading information about third-party batteries.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that Apple is bored of dealing with complaints about devices which have been modified by third parties.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>To be clear, you can replace the battery with whatever battery you want, it will just show a message saying it can&amp;#x27;t be verified as an Apple battery. The only user impact is being unable to see battery health. I don&amp;#x27;t even think I can see my battery health on my Android so I don&amp;#x27;t see it as a big deal, but definitely not great if they are hiding this functionality for no reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vesrah</author><text>Not sure why you got downvoted, but this is true.  When you replace the battery in a new-ish BMW you need to recode&amp;#x2F;register the battery since BMW changes the way it charges the battery based on age and type.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-iphones-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aejnsn</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t go buy a BMW anytime soon.&lt;p&gt;Have to recode the battery, and it&amp;#x27;s been that way for years.</text></item><item><author>roboys</author><text>My guess is Apple is bored of truly innovating and now has to resort to nickle-diming customers to hit quarterly numbers.&lt;p&gt;Tim Cook put on his &amp;quot;Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again&amp;quot; hat.</text></item><item><author>sjwright</author><text>It won’t be for no reason.&lt;p&gt;If their battery health tightly calibrated to report on Apple’s OEM battery, it could provide misleading information about third-party batteries.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that Apple is bored of dealing with complaints about devices which have been modified by third parties.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>To be clear, you can replace the battery with whatever battery you want, it will just show a message saying it can&amp;#x27;t be verified as an Apple battery. The only user impact is being unable to see battery health. I don&amp;#x27;t even think I can see my battery health on my Android so I don&amp;#x27;t see it as a big deal, but definitely not great if they are hiding this functionality for no reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>Even Chrysler is doing things like this.  I had a hitch installed, super simple, all of the wires etc plug in to the appropriate places, but if you want to actually use the break lights, you need to visit the dealership to flip a boolean flag somewhere, otherwise the lights just don&amp;#x27;t work.</text></comment>