iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime Use

An anonymous reader writes "The Polish website Moje Jabluszko ran an experiment that proves the poor reliability of the liquid contact indicators (original, in Polish) installed by Apple in the iPhone. They performed three different tests to challenge the LCIs, which they recorded as a movie. They decided to mimic regular usage of the iPhone — meaning, you go outside where it could be cold or warm, then move inside in a building where temperature might be dramatically different, but still within covered conditions. So, they placed the iPhone in its box for one hour outside at -11 C, then moved it inside at room temperature for 24 hours. They repeated the experiment 3 times, and after the third cycle they could show that the LCI located in the audio jack plug started turning red! This is a clear proof that LCIs are not reliable and could turn red while the iPhone has been used under the defined environmental requirements defined by Apple. Here, only the condensing water could have been in contact with the sensor. In other words, even moving in and out during regular winter time will make you iPhone LCI turn red!" (In the tech specs for the iPhone, Apple rates the non-operating temperature range as -20 to 45 C.)

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Re:Exclamation Points!!!

[dangitman]

Yes, Apple is doing something that lots of companies do! But the public will find a way to think this is ok because it's Apple

But there is no protest when other companies do it, so what's the difference? Seems like there are more people trying to come up with reasons why it is not OK because it is Apple.

Apple's cult following allows it to screw over their customers again and again without anyone thinking twice

And yet other companies also screw over customers, and you rarely see articles about it.