Some harmful practices deeply harm our poor smartphones. Bad charging habits notably decrease the life expectancy of your phone. And in some cases, they can even endanger your life. If the explosions of the Galaxy Note 7 had caused a lot of ink to flow a few years ago, Apple smartphones are not spared from battery-related risks.
Illustration in Ohio where Brian and Jennifer Leisgang have just told their misadventure on Facebook, video in support. “We were very lucky to prevent a fire from breaking out in our house”, they begin in the preamble before developing. When it was time to go to bed, the children had left the old family iPhone 4 in charge in the kitchen. They took it badly since it suddenly exploded in the night before catching fire.
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Why you shouldn’t leave your iPhone charging unattended
“Luckily we had just cleaned the counter yesterday as there were a lot of school books and papers there”, they congratulate each other. Suffice to say that if no storage had been made, the fire would have quickly spread with all the tragic consequences that implies. In the early morning, the counter was littered with iPhone fragments and black soot.
More fear than harm, but the 10-year-old iPhone 4 could very well have burned down the whole house. The couple posted the video for prevention purposes. “I hope sharing this will help prevent a fire in someone else’s house,” he indicates. As you will have understood, you must avoid at all costs recharging your smartphone overnight, especially if it is old.
Lithium-ion batteries have a very limited operating temperature range and can swell over time (due to gas released by chemicals inside). When the voltage drops below a certain threshold, they can no longer recharge properly and generate excessive heat.
