THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN UNDER STEVE JOBS
CoyotePacə
ok weird, Apple: they shipped my repair battery to an Apple Store in Maryland instead of Ohio THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN UNDER STEVE JOBS
THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN UNDER STEVE JOBS
cat
does the city the store is in have a similar name to yours?
CoyotePacə
STEVE JOBS WOULD’VE CHANGED THE CITY’s NAME oh wait whew ok 
CoyotePacə
Nope, nothing like that… Even the Apple people could explain it, but they did fix the problem efficiently and now I have a new battery. Huzzah!
CoyotePacə
For anyone else thinking about the $29 battery deal from Apple: half an hour change out, and most definitely did speed up my older phone markedly
sharks
Did you call for a remote diagnostics take it in? Just curious - I got some runaround from my local Apple store
CoyotePacə
I had originally had a G'Bar appointment for them to look at it in Jan; they called me and said they were out of stock so call AppleCare and set up the repair, and indeed the AppleCare person on the phone did run remote diagnostics (which involved a bit of button-pushing on my end). Then she proceeded to set up the battery order, so I guess it looked bad 
CoyotePacə
It's not very painful but it IS tedious, so block out some time and preferably call from a different phone (Google Voice on your laptop, maybe?) I suspect claiming that your primary problem as grotesquely reduced battery life (rather than performance) might smooth the path, not sure tho'
sharks
That IS my primary problem lol sigh
sharks
Also I was not awake when I typed my Q earlier, sorry for the missing pieces lol
CoyotePacə
It actually was mine, too -- battery life deterioration. I had thought about getting a new battery (for this 6) last fall, depending on what the new models looked like. THEN the performance slowdown issue erupted (and I saved $50 on the battery 
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CoyotePacə
(In all fairness to Apple, if they HADN'T slowed my phone the battery probably would've been crapping out at lunchtime, daily)
BenwinM
Glad you got that resolved. I had a third party replace the battery in my iPhone 5 earlier this year. Good thing I did, too - the old one was puffed enough to put pressure on the back cover.
CoyotePacə
BenwinM
Wow, that is not what you want to see in a lithium ion battery!