“We take the safety of our customers very seriously and want to make sure any battery replacement is done properly. There are now over 1,800 Apple authorized service providers across the US, so our customers have even more convenient access to quality repairs. Last year, we introduced a new feature to notify customers if we were unable to verify that a new, genuine battery was installed by a certified technician following Apple repair processes. This information is there to help protect our customers from damaged, poor quality, or used batteries that can lead to safety or performance issues. This notification does not impact the customer’s ability to use the phone after an unauthorized repair.”
iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR no longer displays battery health data following third-party battery repairs. Apple is already well-known for its resistance to third-party repairs. This is not a shocking news to the smartphone repairing industry as this is an ongoing trend, and Apple is making repair increasingly difficult.
Replacing an iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max batteries will result a "service" alert message saying the phone is "unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple battery." As the result, the phone will also not display any battery health data. This issue persists even if you replace a genuine, authorized Apple battery. The only way to make it right is take your iPhone to an Apple store or Apple-authorized service center, where they can pair the battery with specific software and reset the warning alert message.
Back to the recent updates. However, this warning message is not affecting the older version of iPhone. You still can do the battery replacement for iPhone 6, iPhone 7 or iPhone 8 by your own or third party repairs store.
iFixit calls Apple's latest step to lock you into its ecosystem a "user-hostile choice," but the move is not isolated. Apple has made several previous moves to block third-party or home repairs on iPhones, iFixit notes.
Back in 2016, they completely bricked iPhones that had been previously repaired, displaying an opaque ”Error 53” if you replaced your Touch ID home button, since they’re paired to the logic board. In fact, DIY home button replacement will still result in Touch ID functionality completely ceasing to exist. More recently, Apple started disabling TrueTone on replacement screens, even if you’re using a genuine Apple screen.
