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Imagine a situation where you are sitting in your car, speeding along the highway, listening to your favorite music and enjoying the ride. However, you suddenly notice how your iPhone, which is lying on the dashboard, starts to burst into flames and smoke slowly fills the interior of the car. Wouldn't you like to experience something similar both inside and outside the car? No wonder. Nevertheless, such battles do happen. A woman from China who encountered a similar problem a few days ago could tell her story.

The incident, which took place on a busy road in Shanghai, was recorded by a camera inside the car. In the video of it, it is clearly visible that the iPhone suddenly bursts into flames caused by a defective battery, which immediately inflates and detaches the display from the body of the phone. The phone then smokes slightly for a while, which is just a harbinger of more flames that will engulf it completely in a few seconds. Although the fire is not at all intense, of course it scared the driver very much. She therefore stopped the car and immediately left it to avoid any possible injury. 

Her husband was also traveling in the car with the driver, who said that no one was doing anything with him at the time of the phone explosion. The phone was also not charged, music was not played through it, and the navigation was not turned on. The battery explosion came really out of the blue. As the most likely cause, the man identified the replacement of the battery in an unauthorized service, which the woman decided to do this year. According to the man, the service refuses responsibility for the damage.

It is difficult to say with 100% certainty at this point what exactly caused the explosion. Apparently, there is no more thorough investigation of the entire incident that would reveal a possible cause. As the most likely variaBut it seems that a poor-quality battery manufactured by a third party, combined with the high temperatures currently plaguing China. The temperature in the country on that day was around 37 degrees, while the hot dashboard could have been many degrees higher. So it is possible that the high temperature combined with the poor quality of the battery caused the destruction of the iPhone. 

So if you want to avoid similar problems, you should follow two things. The first is to definitely replace the battery in a certified service center or miniFirst, purchase batteries from verified suppliers. The second thing is not to expose them unnecessarily. iPhone high temperatures that are plaguing practically all of Europe these days. However, we have already written an article on this topic, so be sure to check it out here. 

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