This is How Long Your iPhone is ACTUALLY Supposed To Last

Providing you don't drop it every other week. Ahem.

21 March, 2018
This is How Long Your iPhone is ACTUALLY Supposed To Last

​Most mobile phone contracts last around two years, which seems to be just the right amount of time before your iPhone starts playing up. 

Either the battery will go to shit and you'll end up surgically attached to your phone charger as if it's your first-born child, or there'll be some other kind of repetitive malfunction that will piss you off enough to make you agree to an upgrade.

But if you think about it, two years isn't an awfully long time for the shelf-life of a device that costs several hundreds of pounds. So does this mean we're all just misusing our iPhones, dropping them one too many times when drunk? Or does their design just naturally mean they're not meant to last much longer than most of your relationships.

Well Apple have finally cleared it up for us, it seems. On a newly added section of their website, 'Environment', they've written:

"Years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for OS X and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices."

Yeah, so that iPhone of yours is actually only ​meant ​to last about a year longer than your contract. Which sounds like a ​preeetty ​expensive deal to us. 

Why are we happy to splash out the best part of our salary across 24 months on something that probably has the same 'best before' date as the tin of beans in my kitchen cupboard? It's fairly ludicrous, when you think about it.

But there's also the environmental issue. That's a LOT of iPhones going to waste if we're going to have to bin one every three years. 

Apparently, Apple is doing all it can to make its products long-lasting and more durable, though. So here's hoping a longer life is something the iPhone 7 will be boasting about. Our bank balances would certainly be pleased to hear that, anyway.

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Credit: Cosmopolitan
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