Three years ago, Apple had announced a free repair program for a ‘defect’ in an iPhone. The company has now ended the program as there’s no mention of it on the website. The iPhone in question is the iPhone 8 and the issue was with the logic board of the smartphone. According to a report by Macrumors, Apple won’t be repairing the iPhone 8 for ‘free’ now if it had that particular defect.
Back in August 2018, Apple had “determined that a very small percentage of iPhone 8 devices contain logic boards with a manufacturing defect.” The defect had caused users to suffer a frozen screen, unexpected restarts or some devices failed to power on. Apple had said that it would repair the defective devices free of cost. It was applicable to units that were sold between September 2017 and March 2018 in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, New Zealand, and the US.
The iPhone 8 is now a four-year-old iPhone and chances are that very few people would have this issue or even if they had they might have got it already fixed from Apple for free.
Apple routinely has such replacement or repair programs running. As of now, it has programs for iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro that have certain sound issues. The iPhone 11 also has a display replacement program whereas the AirPods Pro too has a replacement program.
