{"id":257179,"date":"2018-04-22T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257179"},"modified":"2018-04-22T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:10:41","slug":"apple-to-replace-batteries-in-some-macbook-pro-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/257179-apple-to-replace-batteries-in-some-macbook-pro-laptops.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple to replace batteries in some MacBook Pro laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/13inch-macbookpro-battery-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it will replace the batteries of some 13-inch MacBook Pro units.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer said that in some of the non-Touch Bar laptops, a component may fail and cause the built-in battery to expand.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said this is not a safety issue, but it would replace eligible batteries free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>13-inch MackBook Pro units qualifying for this replacement are non-Touch Bar models which were manufactured between October 2016 and October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>MacBook Pro owners can check if their device is eligible for the recall by using the serial checker on the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/13inch-macbookpro-battery-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Users around the world can their take their device to any Apple Authorised Service Provider to receive a free battery replacement.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/252831-apples-next-event-may-reveal-cheaper-ipads-and-macbook-air.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple\u2019s next event may reveal cheaper iPads and MacBook Air<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that it will replace the batteries of some 13-inch MacBook Pro units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,3664,2652,26534],"class_list":["post-257179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-batteries","tag-macbook-pro","tag-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257179"}],"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=257179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257187,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257179\/revisions\/257187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}