8 iPhone Plus is in the middle of a first scandal after the first images of units that had appeared last week cracked cases due to batteries. How many iPhone 8 Plus batteries have exploded? If we go by the press that lives on the wake of the scandals thrown by Samsung, many of them from various corners of the globe, if we return to reality, no battery of any iPhone 8 Plus has exploded.
The iPhone 8 Plus has two cases of swollen batteries reported so far, these cracking the phone cases, but there is no question of any explosion like in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 last year. In the first case, we are talking about an iPhone 8 Plus whose battery swelled while the phone was being charged using an original cable and charger, so the problem is most likely with the battery itself, but it did not explode.
The iPhone 8 Plus has a second case under discussion, in this case it is about a unit that would have been delivered with a swollen battery and a cracked case, without the user intervening. Both cases with swollen iPhone 8 Plus batteries are being investigated by the Apple company, those from Cupertino are going to see what exactly was at the root of the problems, but it is unlikely that any announcement will be made by them in this regard.
iPhone 8 - how many batteries have exploded so far?
The iPhone 8 Plus is not the first new Apple phone to go through a situation of this kind, last year the iPhone 7 Plus had similar reports also from Asia. Then it was about iPhone 7 Plus clones that had exploded batteries, but now it would seem that iPhone 8 Plus units with defective batteries are real, and problems of this kind are not impossible, but not far from normal.
The iPhone 8 Plus uses batteries made in China, some say they come from the ATL company, which would have delivered the problematic ones for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but that's not real either. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had problem batteries from Samsund SDI, not another company, and the iPhone 8 Plus doesn't have batteries from Samsung, so that's probably why they didn't even explode after swelling, just cracked the case .
The iPhone 8 Plus has been sold in several million copies so far, and the only two cases with swollen batteries come from Asia, where you can't really trust anything. It is perfectly true that among the millions of iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus there are definitely units that have batteries that will swell and crack the cases, but the cases could be 1 in 1.000.000, or maybe even rarer than that.
