2025-02-16 22:57:21

My mother in law has an iPhone 8 that we got three years ago, second-hand/refurbished.

Its battery is clearly just giving up. But I don’t know what to do.

If it was me I’d sink the cost and buy a new second-hand refurbished one. I can get an iPhone 12 for £200.

But she’s like: why do these only last three or four years? My previous (dumb) phone lasted about 10 years.

And dang it she’s right.

But battery replacements rarely work well (IMO) and this one looks tricky.

Hmm.