iPhone 17 failed after 6 months, new device requested

charushi16 wrote:

Urgent Escalation – iPhone 17 Catastrophic Failure | Root Cause & Replacement Requested

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The official Genius Bar report clearly confirms:

No external damage

No liquid damage (LCI not triggered)

No cosmetic damage Failed diagnostics (NPO Failed) Brand new condition outside

Proposed resolution: Logic Board Replacement under warranty

I'm pretty sure that the terms of Apple's warranties give them the right to repair your phone, or to replace it with a refurbished equivalent.

The main logic board contains a lot of the key circuitry of the phone, so if Apple has determined that the failure is located on it, and plans to replace it, that will likely fix the problem. You tell us that your iPhone 17 is in "pristine" condition – which means that it shouldn't be a problem to get your original screen and outer shell back – right?

My fundamental question to Apple is: How can a premium flagship iPhone

The iPhone 17 is not a "premium flagship iPhone". That would be an iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone 17 Pro Max.

costing a significant amount of money suddenly become completely dead overnight after only six months of careful use?

Almost all products manufactured in large quantities (cars, iPhones, television sets, etc.) can suffer from individual failures. Sometimes a product will suffer from a systemic design or manufacturing flaw (think of the batteries on a certain recalled Android phone from a few years ago, or the "butterfly-switch" keyboards on some Intel-based Mac notebooks), and then you may see a recall or service program. But even well-made products may occasionally fail.

If they didn't, why would you need a warranty at all?

Has suffered a complete internal hardware failure. The phone currently holds extremely important personal data accumulated over months of usage. The device did not fail due to any action on my part, yet I am being asked to bear the consequences of a hardware failure that appears entirely beyond my control.

If you are thinking that getting a completely new phone would save any data that you failed to back up or otherwise copy off the phone (e.g., synchronize to iCloud) – stop right there.

The data stored locally on your old phone is encrypted, using a key derived from your passcode. Even if the phone was working, without that passcode, Apple would not be able to retrieve your data. (The NSA or their counterparts in Russia or North Korea? Perhaps, if your phone held Top Secrets and a spy agency was willing to spend immense amounts of effort and resources to crack the encryption.)

Your only hope of restoring your data is to already have copies of it somewhere else. Because the dead logic board containing your data will be "going away" whether you get a logic board replacement, or an entirely new iPhone.

Our primary concerns are as follows: How can a nearly new iPhone suddenly become completely dead overnight without any user-induced damage? Why should a customer who purchased a premium Apple product and used it responsibly be expected to accept a major internal component replacement within just six months of ownership?

If you bought a new car, and it broke down after six months, do you think the dealership would give you a whole new car, and scrap your old one?

Don't be silly. Of course not. They wouldn't give you a whole new car unless, perhaps, your car suffered repeated failures (many repeated major failures) that showed that it was a lemon. A single failure would be handled by repair or replacement of the part of the car that failed.

Why should we be forced to use a device with a replaced logic board when the failure appears to be an internal manufacturing, hardware, or software defect?

Apple's technicians concluded that there was a hardware problem somewhere on the logic board. Their proposal is to get rid of the bad logic board and give you a good one in its place.

What assistance will Apple provide regarding the extremely important personal and professional data currently inaccessible on the device?

You should have backed up your phone before catastrophe happened. Afterwards is too late.

Apple makes it very easy to back up most of the contents of an iPhone using

• Synchronization to iCloud (e.g., iCloud Photos), and
• Automatic backups to iCloud (which occur when the phone is connected to power and Wi-Fi Internet service, e.g., when you leave the phone charging at home overnight)

If you had taken advantage of this, you probably would have lost no more than about a day's worth of your data when the phone failed. Maybe less.

If you didn't want to pay for iCloud space, there was also the option of manually backing up the phone to a Mac or Windows PC.

It sounds like you didn't back up your data at all – and that's on you.

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Random failures happen. Logic board failure isn't common, otherwise these forums would be full of posts like yours. Apple reserves the right to repair your phone. I don't know where you live but in this sort of case UK consumer law gives Apple the option to repair.

You won't lose data if you've been doing backups. Everything you synched and backed up to iCloud will still be there.