Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
&gt; By activating a dormant software lock on their newest iPhones, Apple is effectively announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries can go in iPhones, and only they can install them.<p>I really dislike the phrasing attached to this story.<p>It&#x27;s not a lock: a third party installed battery still <i>works</i>, the phone isn&#x27;t refusing to start up until you go to an Apple Store and have an authentic Apple(tm) battery installed. Rather, it&#x27;s a warning in the &quot;battery health&quot; section basically saying &quot;we don&#x27;t know if your battery is any good, you might need to get it replaced&quot;.<p>That said, I&#x27;d prefer a clearer phrasing of their error message. It looks like it&#x27;s just triggering the generic &quot;your battery may need service&quot; warning, which is more of a scare tactic than I&#x27;d like. &quot;You don&#x27;t have a certified Apple battery&quot; would be completely sufficient.<p>Given the existence of refurbishment scams, where substandard parts are put into old phones to make them look good briefly, I can understand where Apple is coming from on this point. Someone who buys a second-hand iPhone and finds the battery dies after a month isn&#x27;t going to be very happy with iPhones.