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Report: Latest iOS 11 update is bricking iPhone 8s with third-party displays
Topic Started: Apr 11 2018, 12:49 PM (141 Views)
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If your iPhone is acting up, or if you happen to have a cracked screen, you can never go wrong taking the device into a nearby Apple retail store. The only downside, though, is that having Apple repair a device can sometimes be significantly more expensive than going through a third-party. As a result, and in light of the fact that iPhone displays are far from bulletproof, there are any number of third-party outlets who can replace a cracked or wonky iPhone display at a reasonable rate.

More often that not, you won’t be able to find much of a difference between the work Apple does and the work you’ll receive from a reputable repair shop. That said, a new report from Vice relays that the recent iOS 11.3 update Apple rolled out late last month appears to be bricking iPhone 8 units with screens provided by third-party repair shops.

Specifically, impacted iPhones can be turned on, but the display itself is absolutely non-responsive to touch, essentially rendering the device completely useless. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/report-latest-ios-11-bricking-iphone-8s-third-234241297.html
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One of many reasons why Apple and I are strangers.
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Yep, Apple keeps doing stuff like this. They should in theory own the smartphone market since they were first with real smartphones but their proprietary issues keep sending customers elsewhere.
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