iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus went on-sale worldwide last month.
The new iPhone handsets boast an improved display with True Tone technology, support for fast-charging, and a lightning-fast A11 Bionic processor.
The iPhone 8 Plus also includes Portrait Mode, a new photography feature that uses depth mapping to artificially add studio-style lighting effects to your snaps.
Unfortunately, two owners have purportedly had suffered an issue with the new iPhone models.
An iPhone 8 Plus owner in Taiwan claims her five-day-old 64GB smartphone ruptured open while on-charge, The Next Web has reported.
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According to the owner, who is not named, she was using the official Apple charging cable.
After about three minutes on charge, the iPhone 8 Plus purportedly started to swell, before it burst open.
This is not an isolated incident.
Another iPhone 8 Plus owner in Japan has also claimed his new smartphone split open.
However, unlike the Taiwanese owner, his iPhone 8 Plus wasn’t even charging at the time – he claims the new iPhone simply split open after the unboxed the new phone.
The most likely culprit for these issues would be battery swelling, however, Apple has yet to provide any definite answers about the reported incidents.
Apple has confirmed to Express.co.uk that it is looking into these incidents.
So far, these appear to be the only two cases, which means these incidents are probably statistical outliers, rather than an indication of a wider, pernicious problem.
It’s worth noting that – like every other component used in a modern smartphone – lithium-ion batteries have a failure rate.
That rate is pretty low, usually around one in 10 million.
But with more than a billion active iOS devices in use around the globe, that means, statistically speaking, there could be at least 100 spontaneous battery overheating or swelling problems worldwide.
Apple takes user safety very seriously.
We’ll hopefully hear more in the coming days.