Hi! I have an iphone 8 plus and i just got it surrendered to apple foe service due to bloating of the battery. Does anyone have any accounts similar to this? Or was it just a defective phone?
Thanks for the feedback guys!
Powerport II issues
I can garentee you it wasn’t the battery 
. Defiantly just a defective phone battery .
With the little information you posted sounds like a defective phone. I’m sure you are using your Powerport II for other devices as well. Hope those don’t have any issues. Please report back with Apple’s response I’m curious to see what they suspect is the issue.
Doesn’t look like an isolated event to me.
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Im sorry man but thats all the info i have. Im waiting for diagnostics from apple. All they said that it had a bloated battery. Im trying to troubleshoot what might have caused it. Hoping to find answers here.
I bought the charger along with a type c to lightning cable from apple. When i charge, the phone heats up a bit. Its tolerable tho.
Thank you for the feedback btw. Ill provide the diagnostic when it comes in
I honestly don’t think it was the PowerPoint II fault. Most likely a defective battery. Let’s hope the guys at Apple take care of it 
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Rest assured your Anker charger was not the cause of the problem and have some of the safest Chargers available plus many built-in safety features.
From what I just read it seems it doesn’t matter whether or
not these phones are charging at the time swollen batteries have occurred both in transit and while charging. It is an industry-wide problem and the reason I wish they still made flagship phones with replaceable batteries and removable backs.
In short the battery short circuited because battery makers are always trying to get more capacity into ever-smaller batteries making short circuits more likely and swelled because the battery is sealed to prevent leaks of toxic gases.
I would demand a new phone not just a fix of your old phone and threaten legal action or a local news expose to motivate them provided your phone does not have any physical damage. I can’t say for sure whether this will happen again or not. I doubt Apple has changed batteries.
I think the best thing that I can recommend is to get a carrier plan that enables you to upgrade your phone every year or two this problem is going to persist until Battery technology improves or they bring back the replaceable battery.
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Unfortunately I don’t see replaceable batteries making a come back on flagship phones. I do miss switching out batteries on my old note 4. If I was at almost 0%, it took less than a minute to replace it with a fully charged battery 
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Thanks, man. I really appreciate your response. I think they’ll be providing me with a new unit. I just hope it doesnt happen again on the new one. 
Yeah why make a phone with a replaceable battery if the battery swells or loses capacity and the company can sell another device😑
My pleasure. Best of luck to you👍
There are a couple reasons for sealed backs.
Stop people fiddling with their handset, and then complaining it’s broke.
They weren’t very good at keeping out dust and dampness.
People often lost the back, or broke it getting it off
People also lost there batteries… I don’t know how
By sealing the back, able to put bigger batteries/more tech inside, and could move the battery from the middle
Make the phone slimmer
That’s just a couple reasons why they seal the back.
And they’re all dumb
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Indeed.
All this rubbish is created for the throwaway society.
Not possible to open, not possible to repair.
The faster they change one rubbish to another one, the better!
Business!
Slimmer, faster, better -> garbage! 
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That is your closed mind opinion. As per usual, always negative to anything I say.
It’s people who drive it Franz.
They complain when it’s one thing, then it’s changed and then complain it’s not.like the old!
One of the most claimed reasons for insurance or a broken fone was … Water damage.
The No1 reason was usually… Men dropping it down the toilet.
Now they’ve sealed the devices and made them water resistant, and now people complain they can’t access inside. Can’t have both.
Phones were thin enough 5 years ago and have become so thin but they have sacrificed structural integrity.
People loosing their batteries or poking around in their device is just silly.
Saying that phones with removable backs aren’t water and dust proof is a cop out imo and just mean their engineers aren’t working hard enough.
Batteries don’t have to be rectangular to be replaceable.
I am 100% confident that somebody could come up with an elegant phone design with glass back capable of wireless charging sealed with a gasket and held in place by a few screws.
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Stop saying silly things and I’ll stop being negative😉
No you wont
I honestly don’t even know who you are.