{"id":187977,"date":"2016-11-18T08:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=187977"},"modified":"2016-11-18T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:29:02","slug":"apple-launches-touch-disease-fix-for-iphone-6-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/187977-apple-launches-touch-disease-fix-for-iphone-6-plus.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple launches Touch Disease fix for iPhone 6 Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/iphone6plus-multitouch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>repair programme<\/strong><\/a> for the iPhone 6 Plus, which fixes the phone&#8217;s &#8220;touch disease&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/11\/17\/apple-multi-touch-repair-program-iphone-6-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MacRumours<\/strong><\/a>, the touch disease sees devices becoming unresponsive to touch.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said iPhone 6 Plus devices may exhibit &#8220;Multi-Touch issues&#8221; after &#8220;being dropped multiple times on a hard surface&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Apple will fix an affected iPhone 6 Plus for a service price of $149.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Third-party repair outlets speculated that the issue could be linked to the same structural design flaw that caused the Bendgate controversy,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/187455-designed-by-apple-in-california.html\">Designed by Apple in California<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has launched a repair programme for the iPhone 6 Plus, which fixes the phone&#8217;s &#8220;touch disease&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":138258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,605,26728],"class_list":["post-187977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-iphone-6-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187981,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187977\/revisions\/187981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}