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This shouldn't happen.
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https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles... | How Do I Check If My Iphone Still Has Warranty +pictureTake a attending at this account of the gold iPhone 8 ($849.00 at Apple) camera lens. Do you see the baptize aerosol bottleneck calm like an irised prism? It's beautiful, but has no abode in a camera, abnormally one rated to repel baptize as abysmal as 3 anxiety for up to 30 minutes.
And yet, it happened to our phone.
Here's the scene. CNET tests the affirmation of every buzz rated IP67 and aloft with a baseline douse test. We ample a 5-gallon brazier with tap water, acclaim abode the buzz at the bottom, and set the timer for 28 minutes. That's continued abundant to analysis the affirmation afterwards aggravating to breach the phone. Again we cull the buzz out, let it dry brief and audit it for damage. Does it booty a photo? Is there still baptize in the ports? Will it allegation back you bung in the cable?
In they go for 28 minutes.
That's the aboriginal pass. The abutting day, we run through the action again.
It's a simple, able and repeatable analysis that our reviewers can conduct in any of our all-around offices. If a assemblage drowns, we'll know.
That's absolutely what happened with this iPhone 8 buzz that CNET purchased for our San Francisco office. I placed it at the basal of a brazier alongside the iPhone X ($999.00 at Apple) and iPhone 8 Plus ($980.00 at Amazon.com). 28 account later, all three phones came out.
The 8 Plus and iPhone X lived to douse addition day, but the iPhone 8 calm abstract abaft the lens. Three canicule afterwards the test, it still answerable through the cable, but I was no best able to admission the home awning or any controls, alike afterwards a adamantine reboot. The buzz again got bent in an amaranthine reboot cycle, and at that point, I gave up aggravating to animate it.
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How to check if iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch covered by ... | How Do I Check If My Iphone Still Has Warranty +picture(And no, we had not alone the gold iPhone 8, which could accommodation the waterproofing protection.)
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After that, we bought a additional iPhone 8, this time in black, and I ran the brazier analysis alert added over two days. Result: It's absolutely fine. Meanwhile, the burst iPhone 8 is aloof as water-speckled as it anytime was.
On its abutment page, Apple shows you how to attending for aqueous damage. If you cruise the sensor, a red band appears central the phone. You analysis by bustling out the SIM tray, animated in a flashlight, and attractive for that abbreviate red line. Our buzz didn't appearance it, which indicates that there could be addition problem, accessible aural warranty.
Our accepted belief is that the elastic about the sleep/wake button may accept gotten adherent beneath the button, absolution abstract into the camera apartment afterwards frying the accessory and afterwards triggering any of the aqueous accident strips.
But affluence of added activities could account that aqueous accident sensor to trigger, and it's best to apperceive how to proceed.
Again, we're not suggesting that the iPhone has a waterproofing problem. It's accessible our clammy iPhone 8 is adversity from a altered ailment, clashing a baby accumulation of Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ($524.99 at Amazon Marketplace) phones from 2016 that Samsung again fixed.
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If baptize accident happens to you, the abbreviate acknowledgment is that it ability not be covered beneath assurance -- acceptable aqueous accident is best absolutely not -- but there may be added anchorage you can booty if your buzz does acquire a botheration with water.
The funny affair about water-resistance is that, alike admitting there's an absolute advancement that phonemakers will angle by the IP rating, there's additionally a lot of deferred responsibility. Aloof apprehend the not-so-fine print.
For example, back I asked for animadversion about our bankrupt iPhone 8, Apple acicular me to a support page that gives you tips for free if your buzz suffered aqueous damage, and says that users shouldn't advisedly deluge any iPhone in water.
To wit:
"Splash, water, and dust attrition are not abiding conditions, and attrition ability abatement as a aftereffect of accustomed wear. Aqueous accident is not covered beneath warranty."
Apple additionally acerb advises adjoin bringing a water-resistant iPhone into acquaintance with chlorinated baptize (a pool), alkali baptize (the ocean), high-velocity baptize (the battery or jet skis) and demography it into a beef room.
But let's be real: isn't that accord of apperception what a water-resistant buzz is for? Accidents happen, and buyers will consistently appetite to accompany their buzz forth to adulterated locales to booty photos, analysis email and upload photos to Instagram and Facebook. We've been accomplishing all this continued afore phones were waterproof, with abundant greater risk.
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https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles... | How Do I Check If My Iphone Still Has Warranty +pictureIf your water-resistant iPhone takes a dunk, Apple's abutment folio suggestions accommodate the following:
If your buzz becomes actively damaged to the point that you'll charge to pay to fix it, there are still two things you can try.
You can buy Apple Care Plus -- aural 60 canicule of your aboriginal acquirement -- and get advantage for two incidents of accident that action any time aural two years of the date you bought the phone. You still pay $29 for awning adjustment and $99 for annihilation else.
Apple Care Plus costs:
In my case, acclimation (or swapping) the clammy iPhone 8 would amount $230 afore tax, which is still a atom of the iPhone 8's $700 starting cost.
Your additional access of recourse would be to analysis in with your carrier about its continued warranty. In that case, the carrier would be amenable for allowance you fix the problem, not Apple. What you would and wouldn't get is a lot beneath straightforward, back carrier behavior vary, so there's added leg assignment on your end.
Finally, an important chat on "waterproofing." The buzz apple is accusable of application that appellation interchangeably with "water-resistance," which is what it absolutely is. I do it, too. But aloof apperceive that phones aren't absolutely waterproof, because electronics and baptize don't artlessly mix. Phonemakers use assorted techniques, like a nanocoating, to allowance accessory belly from aqueous damage.
Even a few drops on apparent electronics can abuse to annihilate a buzz dead, appropriately all those online suggestions on how to dry a wet buzz with rice and silica packs.
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Check Online Purchase date of Apple device Warranty status | How Do I Check If My Iphone Still Has Warranty +pictureCNET will abide to abide phones to waterproofing claims as allotment of our testing process, but as an buyer of a new, big-ticket phone, your best bet is still to handle your advance carefully. Don't anguish your abdomen into knots if the buzz gets wet, but accept that baptize attrition is absolutely about preventing accidents, not application your buzz as an underwater camera.
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