iPhone Explodes in the Hands of an 11-Year-Old Girl

An iPhone 6 reportedly caught fireplace whereas being held in hand by an 11-year-old from California, however fortuitously, no one was injured.

Kayla Ramos says she seen sparks popping out of the telephone, so she threw it throughout the room. The burning system didn’t create any main damages, and Kayla’s mom, Maria Adata, says it solely made a number of holes in a blanket.

“I was sitting down, and I had my phone in my hand and then I saw sparks flying everywhere and I just threw it on a blanket,” the lady mentioned in accordance with 23ABC. “I was right here on the bed and the phone managed to burn through this blanket and make these holes.”

Apple already investigating the incident

The lady’s mom says she has already reached out to Apple, and the firm launched an investigation. Apple requested the telephone for additional evaluation and offered the lady with a brand new telephone.

“This could have been my child,” Adata instructed the cited supply. “My child could have been caught on fire and she could have been hurt more and I am glad she’s OK.”

While the actual trigger of the fireplace is but to be decided, most smartphones find yourself bursting into flames as a consequence of overheating batteries, which in their flip are attributable to damages or non-genuine chargers or charging cables.

The mom, nevertheless, says this isn’t the case with the iPhone 6, so presumably, solely real Apple equipment have been used with the unit that exploded.

It stays to be seen if we ever discover out extra about this system, however in pure Apple trend, the firm hasn’t mentioned a single phrase about the incident publicly. Most seemingly, the Cupertino-based tech big will stay tight-lipped utterly on this burning iPhone 6, similar to it did in the case of all the different iPhones that caught fireplace in the previous couple of years.