{"id":218737,"date":"2018-01-10T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=218737"},"modified":"2018-01-10T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:40:42","slug":"istore-south-africa-to-offer-battery-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/218737\/istore-south-africa-to-offer-battery-replacements\/","title":{"rendered":"iStore South Africa to offer battery replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iStore South Africa has announced its battery replacement price and process for local iPhone users.<\/p>\n<p>The replacements will be available at any of the\u00a023 stores around South Africa with the cost of the battery replacement at R377 excluding VAT (<strong>R429,78 including\u00a0VAT<\/strong>), effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligible iPhones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owners of iPhone SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7 and 7 Plus who suspect that their battery might need to be replaced can visit the iStore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myistore.co.za\/help-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>help centre<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to make a technical appointment from 11 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhones will be assessed in store, and if eligible under the program, will be sent for battery replacement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The in-store technical appointment fee of R200 usually applicable to non-iStore customers, will be waived for this battery replacement program, for a limited time only, provided that an appointment has been booked online,&#8221; the iStore said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/218165\/apple-says-all-macs-iphones-ipads-exposed-to-chip-flaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple says all Macs, iPhones, iPads exposed to chip flaw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Apple\u2019s iPhone battery replacement programme, iStore South Africa has announced its replacement price and process for local iPhone users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":124219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,5089],"class_list":["post-218737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-istore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218755,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218737\/revisions\/218755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}