How to: Replace an iPhone Battery

Apple’s iPhone battery replacement program is expensive and time consuming, but you can do it yourself if you’ve got some patience and soldering skills.

Our friends over at Gear Live put together an excellent tutorial on how to replace the battery for about $25. This is a big savings compared to Apple’s iPhone battery replacement program for out-of warranty phones, which costs $79, plus $6.95 for shipping.

Apple’s iPhone will replace your battery under warranty, but only if it’s running at 50% capacity or less. If you’ve hacked your iPhone or want to replace the battery early you can order up a replacement battery and go at it yourself.

Check out the video from GearLive, which shows how to replace your iPhone’s batter in great detail. If you’re handy with a soldering iron and you’re used to getting inside of computers, this should be an easy fix.

If you’re scared you’ll ruin your iPhone by replacing the battery yourself- you should be. You can tweak the case or short a circuit really easily. There’s good reason why Apple discourages this practice.

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Comments

Bluebeep

This is a great video! Can anyone point me to a 3G video for replacing batteries?

Thomas Demee

I having a diffculty looking for the replacement internal battery for "iPhone T168 internal battery" can you help me, waiting for your reply. thank you

Edwin Meijer

After 18mos, my iPhone (1st generation 4GB) battery charge, didn't last for a day anymore and I decided to replace it. I considered having it replaced by www.ipodjuice.com... however, after adding up the total cost for getting the phone back in the shortest-possible period, it was close to a $70 ($20 battery replacement, $29 for shipping it to them, plus at least another $20 for the return shipment)... the difference in price compared to Apple's battery replacement program was not substantial enough ($85.95). Apple guarantees you have your phone back in 3 business days, and when I dropped off my phone at an Apple Store, they gave me a new replacement phone and I was done in 30 minutes. Not sure if that happens in all stores, but at least it's worth considering if you need your phone back fast and you live close to an Apple store.

Aamri Mahmood

Hi,

Well I got apple battery from a local store, and opened my iPhone, but unfortunately i messed up alot of things, i plucked the battery, without nowing that i will damage the circuit, as you can see the bellow images, i have spent more then 10 hours continuous to solve the problem. Let me explain it to you guys....

details and circuit diagram on
http://aamirrajpoot.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/ip...