Author: Harry Guinness / Source: howtogeek.com
You can speed up your iPhone by replacing the battery, but you’ll have to take it to Apple, since the battery is not designed to be user-replaceable. This has left people wondering whether they’d prefer removable batteries. I’m here to say: you wouldn’t.
Very few phones come with a removable battery anymore, where you can just remove the back cover and pop the battery out. Instead, to varying degrees, the battery is glued and screwed into the internals of the phone. Even just removing the back cover requires special tools and courage. And this is a good thing.
Removable vs. Replaceable Batteries
There’s a difference between removable and replaceable batteries. A removable battery is, well, easily removable. Slide open the back panel and you can swap it out for another. This was a big selling point on early Android phones because you could carry a second battery to keep your phone running all day (although to be honest, I never saw anyone do that).
A replaceable battery is different; it’s a battery that, at some point can be removed and replaced with another, but that for the entirety of its life is kept inside the phone. This is what most modern phones have.
While it’s generally advisable to get your devices professionally repaired, things like replacing a phone battery can be surprisingly easy.
Phones are Better Without User-Replaceable Batteries
I’ve got an iPhone 7 Plus. It’s a huge phone. Seriously, I’ve had TVs with smaller screens. But it still fits perfectly in my pocket. This is partly because it doesn’t have a removable battery. Apple (and Samsung, and LG, and Google, etc.) have been able to engineer things so that every component fits together neatly. In early phones, this wasn’t an issue because space wasn’t at such a premium. Now it is.
It’s even more clear with the iPhone X. Rather than having a single battery, it actually has two so that Apple can cram in even more components. You don’t get a futuristic phone without making some shrewd design choices.
As well as allowing for smaller devices with tighter internal tolerances, phones without removable batteries have other advantages.
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