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You're never more than a few feet away from a phone charger.
Your whole life revolves around your smartphone, if you're like most people.
You have your calendar set up to remind you of your schedule throughout the day, you
respond to work emails and answer calls. You chat all day
long on Facebook and Instagram with friends and family. You use the camera, the alarm clock and on and
on, which is why you dread a dead iPhone battery. But what do you do when you can't charge your iPhone?
You plug in your charger and your battery drains and dies.
 Don't run to the Apple Store or the iPhone repair kiosk at your local mall, yet.
That can set you back hundreds of dollars.
They'll most likely suggest you just buy a new phone --
"there's nothing we can do." Keep reading for five solutions to charging your iPhone when it seems to be dead.
This simple tip is going to save you hundreds of
dollars and hours of frustration.
Do not panic if your iPhone isn't charging, or don't panic yet.
There's a very good chance that you just need to clean your iPhone.
Tip: You may want to grab your magnifying glass for this.
Check the charging port at the bottom of your iPhone. Use a soft brush,
a pin or a paperclip to clear out any dust that has accumulated in your charging
point. It's in there, no matter who you are, and it's preventing charging, so get it out.
Then, plug your charger back in. Make sure it's firmly inserted into your iPhone and that the plug is firmly inserted into your wall socket or another power source.
Do not spend hundreds of dollars on a new iPhone just
because you think it's dead. You might just need to change your iPhone battery.
You don't want to do this yourself, unless you have a lot
of experience fixing iPhones. Plus, Apple will most likely not do future repairs if they see that you've messed with it.
Go to an authorized Apple repair store. Try multiple charging cables, plugs and power sources to see if any of those work.
You might have a faulty charging cable. Has your dog been chewing on it?
Try plugging your iPhone directly into your laptop's USB port.
Try different wall sockets and make double sure that your charging cable is firmly inserted into your iPhone.
You may just need to reset your iPhone. You know how technology
is - for some mysterious reason, you can fix loads of problems with tech devices
by restarting them.
Here's how Apple Support suggests you reset your iPhones (8 and newer).
Press and release the volume up button, then do the same with the volume down button. Hold down the side button until you see the Apple logo on your screen. Here's how to do it on older iPhones.
Hold down the side button and the volume down button at the same time, until you
see the Apple logo. Warning: This step will result in you losing your iPhone settings
and information. Make sure to back up your iPhone before proceeding.
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and reliable cloud backups.
So, what's next if you've tried all these steps and your iPhone still isn't charging?
You may need to pay for Apple to service your iPhone - call
customer support or go to an Apple Store. Or, you can go to
your cellphone provider's store. Head to the mall or a
nearby shopping center and go to your AT that’s
the Samsung phone infamous for exploding.
But do you know how many of them actually caught fire?
In the U.S., it was about 100. So if people were easily and
regularly popping open their
iPhones to tinker with them, there’d be a problem
20 times worse. And that’s probably a low estimate.
Cascade’s technicians are highly trained and still have the electronic gadgets they’re working on catch fire.
There’d be news reports almost every day about someone setting their house on fire while working on an iPhone or iPad.
There’d be pictures of burn victims. Images
of suddenly-homeless kids crying in the cold. And people would blame Apple.
So Apple does everything it can to force you to take your broken iPhone or iPad to a professional.
That’s far and away the best solution.
Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a letter to investors
alerting them that the company would miss its revenue targets
in part because Apple didn’t sell as many iPhones as it expected.
The lengthy letter cites, specifically, that people
are buying fewer iPhones because they are repairing their old
ones. At the announcement event for the iPhone XS, Apple said
that keeping your old iPhone "is the best thing for the planet," but the fact remains that selling new iPhones is best for Apple’s bottom line.
29, which would end throttling and make older phones run faster.
Apple has never clearly articulated why it doesn’t want people to fix their own iPhones
or to have independent experts repair them.
It has previously said that iPhones are "too complex" for users to repair them,
even though replacing a battery is pretty easy and is done by
average users all the time. But the fact that repair
hurts Apple’s bottom line came out in Cook’s official communication with shareholders, who he is
legally obligated to tell the truth to.
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