I think so. Never ask. It was free battery replacement.

That time got this ‘saga’ that apple was found out to throttle the phone when ur battery condition is poor. As part of the ‘compensation’ to this, apple made discount to battery replacement to all models of iPhone from $79 to $29 usd regardless of warranty status.

And within one year warranty, if ur iPhone battery capacity falls below certain percentage u can request for replacement for free. I think it is 85% or 80% below. But that time my phone was below one year old and battery capacity was above 90% I still managed to get it changed .

If I remembered correctly, the staff at apple orchard did say that replacement of battery would cause the water resistant to be affected which it would not be as good as new without opening but also not 100% no water resistant but simply not as good only.

That was in 2018 which was the in the next year after iPhone X was released. I did not use the phone since battery replacement until recently only I started using it.
It was about one month of usage now. It started with capacity showing 100% and now the battery capacity is at 97% after the usage. I guessed the phone was unused for too long so somehow the battery also degraded by itself after the long storage.

However, one thing is obvious that the battery is significantly poorer in iOS 15 as well as the performance of the camera. It takes much longer for the phone to finish saving a camera (become clear and accessible). It used to be instant now at least it takes 5 seconds or longer. Seriously I should have kept the phone at much older iOS like iOS 13. iOS 15 has many new features not available for iPhone X which makes it no worthwhile to upgrade to iOS 15. I do like the feature of the metadata which now I tell the size of the individual photo and video instead of last time I need to use the ‘shortcut’ to do so.

This post has been edited by westlife: May 3 2022, 08:04 AM