Un 6 iPhone Plus caught fire out of nowhere in the pants pocket of a man in Atlanta, USA, he had to undress in the middle of the street to avoid burning the skin of his leg near which the smartphone is located Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
The man was placing purchases made at a local store in the car while he felt a burn near the pocket of his pants, and at the moment he noticed the smoke coming out of his pocket, he made the decision to quickly take off his pants that had taken fire in that region.
The pants pocket was completely burned together with the boxers that the man was wearing at the time of the incident, the man escaped from this incident without any major wound on his leg, but without any clear explanation regarding the problem that affected him.
Trying to find out what exactly caused the spontaneous combustion of his iPhone 6 Plus terminal, the man found out that the device in question was actually a refurbished one, Apple initially selling it in 2014, a company buying it later, refurbishing it and selling it to the mobile phone operator from which the man in Atlanta bought it.
I mean, it was pretty humiliating having to take your pants off in a parking lot. When I saw the smoke, I undid my belt, I undid my pants. I pushed it away, turned my head hoping it wouldn't explode. It burned pretty much my whole front pocket, burned my boxers, started to burn my leg, but I had moved it away in time so it wouldn't burn me.
Although the company that refurbished the terminal offered him a replacement device, the man is still waiting for an explanation for the incident, with Apple promising to investigate the problem to find out exactly what caused the spontaneous combustion of the device.
In general, defective batteries are to blame for incidents of this kind, they swell and catch fire, and this will most likely be the conclusion that Apple will reach.
