If you have bought an iPhone 8 or plan to do so, be careful!Because the fall of the smartphone could be fatal ... for your wallet.The new model indeed presents a glass back, which it would be impossible to change in case of breakage.The Apple after-sales service would then offer you to completely replace the device, which would cost candy.According to 01net, you will have to pay 400 euros for an iPhone 8 and 450 euros for an iPhone 8 Plus.A prohibitive price that will surely encourage users to assert their device with a protective shell.

It must be said that the repair prices of iPhone screens are also high, and have also increased recently with the release of the new model.From now on, replacing an iPhone 8 Plus screen, iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus will be charged 201.10 euros indicates Apple on its site, against 181.10 euros before.For iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, the price went from 161.10 euros to 181.10 euros.An increase that finds it all the more difficult to be accepted as it follows a previous one of 14 euros last March, as 01net recalls.

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The solution to avoid these costs could then be to subscribe to Apple Care+ insurance which entitles assistance and a material guarantee for two years.She is billed 149 euros for iPhone 8, 7 and 6s and 169 euros for more versions, to which must be added 29 euros for the repair of the screen, 99 euros for other damage (within the limit of two accidental damage).An interesting option if you damage the glass back but which will be reutorship in the case of a broken screen.

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