Although by no means a disaster, the launch of the iPhone 5s hasn’t quite gone to plan for Apple. A range of bugs with the accompanying iOS7 have kept the company working on updates throughout the month, and now it appears a small number of units are experiencing battery draining issues.
While the exact problem hasn’t been detailed, Apple has assured us all that the issue is very limited, and replacement phones are inbound.
“We recently discovered a manufacturing issue affecting a very limited number of iPhone 5S devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life,” company spokesperson Teresa Brewer told the New York Times. “We are reaching out to customers with affected phones and will provide them with a replacement phone.”
Apparently this number is limited to a around two thousand phones, which is a relatively small amount in the grand scheme of things. Hopefully these battery draining issues are cleared up sooner than later.
Source: The New York Times