Apple is Investigating iPhone 7 Plus That Spontaneously 'Blew Up' [Video]

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Posted February 24, 2017 at 3:16pm by iClarified

Apple is reportedly investigating an iPhone 7 Plus that spontaneously 'blew up'. Footage of the phone smoking and the case melting away was posted to Twitter by Brianna Olivas.

The day before the phone wouldn't turn on. It was taken Apple for troubleshooting where employees ran diagnostic tests and determined that everything was fine.

"The next morning I was asleep with my phone charging next to my head, my boyfriend grabbed the phone and put it on the dresser," she said via a direct message on Twitter. "He went the the [sic] restroom ... and from the corner of his eye he saw my phone steaming and [heard] a squealing noise. By the time he got over to the phone it had already caught fire, he quickly grabbed the phone and threw it in the restroom ... as soon as he threw it in the restroom is [sic] blew up and more smoke started coming out of the phone."

The phone has since been turned over to Apple. They are conducting tests on the device and expect to know more within a week. "We are in touch with the customer and looking into it," said an Apple spokesperson.

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Apple is Investigating iPhone 7 Plus That Spontaneously 'Blew Up' [Video]

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Lmao - March 1, 2017 at 4:15am

Look at all these people making excuses. "Charging cable." "Microwave" lol but you were quick to blame Samsung after the first "explosion".

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Ricky - February 28, 2017 at 3:43am

It's Samsung , wAy to spoil apple name

SimonSays - February 26, 2017 at 5:48am

Seems like a defective battery. Nothing more. Unlike the Samsung note explosions, this is t wide spread. Batteries will sometimes have an internal short, that's just the nature of lithium based cells.

ANDREW YU - February 25, 2017 at 7:12pm

I bet apple will not honor that phone replacement. They will blame it on the owner, and they fake Chinese chargers lol. They will never accept their mistakes!

ratGT. - February 25, 2017 at 1:35pm

How does this kind of stuff happen to people and I've never, EVER experience even the slightest mobile problem that has to do with terrorizing batteries?!? It can't be anything else other than some kind of irresponsible usage by the user!

Roger1079 - February 25, 2017 at 11:35am

I doubt it is some elaborate scheme by Samsung to make Apple look bad. Plus, what would the point be for Samsung to do that? It would still be considered a freak isolated incident when there aren't more reports of the iPhone 7 catching on fire. This phone was either the victim of cheap and poorly made aftermarket accessories, building electrical wiring with a fault, or a defective battery that made it past Apple's quality assurance department to installation, packaging, and shipment in a new device. With the video starting at the point it does, we have no way to determine how or to what this device was connected to when it failed. Unfortunately these are also critical details to finding the root cause, especially if the phone really was taken to Apple the day before and successfully passed their diagnostic tests. Hopefully this story doesn't die here and the person this happened to updates the video with Apple's conclusion and resolution.

D4xM4Nx - February 25, 2017 at 7:54am

I call this either Samsung ad bullshit or bad cables/chargers. I've seen it myself how knock off chargers destroy batteries or plainly make them blow up to the sky... Damn! This whole 'tweet' might be a hoax in hopes to damage Apple.

Lala land - February 25, 2017 at 6:56am

That green cable was the reason

Bcopeland97 - February 24, 2017 at 10:38pm

Another reason to hate the newer iPhone models!

Wil it blend? - February 24, 2017 at 6:45pm

Don't breathe this!

Grecha - February 24, 2017 at 6:21pm

Fakes! Sam is trying to moc iP

Yayaya - February 24, 2017 at 5:11pm

Scammers for sure. I work with iPhones. Only thing could've been the charger they used and where they used it. Could have used the wrong charging adapter over seas

Dan - February 24, 2017 at 4:15pm

After market phone case not letting the phone breath that's what they will come up with

darandy - February 24, 2017 at 3:45pm

That's what happens when you put it in the microwave

asdf - February 24, 2017 at 3:34pm

The battery manufacture to blame

Irfy - February 24, 2017 at 3:23pm

Spontaneously??? Doesn't look spontaneous at all... and this video is half way through... so I would like to know where the phone had been kept... people do anything for views these days... yet it still could be true...

Nifnif - February 24, 2017 at 3:23pm

You hold it wrong!