Do you have a broken iPhone and do not want to spend hundreds of euro to buy a new one or do not know how to fix it on your own? There is good news: it seems that Apple will soon launch a program to encourage the replacement of a failed device with a new one. According to reports the site 9to5Mac , Apple is preparing to exchange the iPhone with broken screens, cameras damaged or broken buttons with a new iPhone.
“Apple is preparing to launch a couple of new business initiatives focused on the iPhone” the site writes: “an iPhone trade-in program for iPhones with screens, cameras, or damaged buttons, and a new program allows employees to an Apple Store to install protection on the iPhone. “
at the Apple Store is already possible to recycle an iPhone: the currently active program allows the customer to bring an older iPhone model at an Apple Store and receive a gift card that you can spend on buying a new iPhone. This program, however, does not provide for the exchange of an old iPhone with the display, cameras or broken buttons. But it will not for long.
By February, the program will be updated to allow Apple’s retail stores to give a gift card that you can spend on buying a new iPhone although with displays, cameras and buttons damaged. Apple hopes that the program will encourage users to upgrade their phones, rather than simply to repair the screen.
The source notes, however, that the damage must be regarded as “within reasonable limits”, and probably the phone must be able to still work (the details as we have them when Apple will announce the official program).
the estimated price for the barter of each iPhone is: $ 50 for an iPhone 5S, $ 200 for an iPhone 6, and $ 250 for an iPhone 6 Plus.
in order to prevent breakage of the display, the staff of the Apple Store will also be enabled to install a screen protector that will be supplied by Belkin, a company with which Apple has partnered. Prior to this new program, was told Apple Store employees not to perform installations of screen protectors for iPhone because the case of third-party accessories and not Apple’s official. In the event of incorrect installation due to problems of the protective film, Apple will offer a free replacement of the screen and attempt to reinstall the protection.
The program to replace the damaged iPhone that will be activated shortly is different iPhone Upgrade program since the program that the company launched last year. With this you can change it with a new iPhone each year, paying a monthly fee instead of the full price of the phone in the time of purchase.
In a few weeks Apple will then begin to accept the withdrawal of the iPhone with a display, camera, or broken buttons.
Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 7 in September, and it is said that the company has designed the rear camera to not stick out and be flush with the back of the phone. It ‘also has also been reported that Apple has removed the antenna bands from the back, to give the phone look better.
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