The important takeaway is that, if you let a third-party put a new battery in your iPhone, Apple Geniuses won't even look at your iPhone if you bring it to them for repair later (even if it's for ...

As a result of the European Union’s push for greater repairability of consumer devices like smartphones, Apple sees itself forced to make the batteries in the iPhone user-replaceable by 2027.

Apple has been accused of finding unnecessary faults with iPhones and thereby profiting from a battery replacement initiative. When the US firm announced it had been slowing down iPhones in order ...