If their battery health tightly calibrated to report on Apple’s OEM battery, it could provide misleading information about third-party batteries.
My guess is that Apple is bored of dealing with complaints about devices which have been modified by third parties.
A friend did buy a Nexus 6P battery replacement kit from Amazon, but the process was so byzantine, and no shop was willing to do it, that they just ended up getting a new device.
I did like back in the day when I could pop the back off my Samsung Galaxy and replace the battery, but those days are gone and Apple is the only company that has any sort of concerted program to keep their older devices operating.
Maybe for high end phones.
It's still a very common feature on low-mid end phones. My motorola g4 which I got just a couple years ago has it.
More anecdotes, but it's too bad you don't know me. I've replaced 3 or 4 phone batteries in the last decade. Needless to say, they've all been Android, as I've been able to do them all myself. Most of the batteries have been $30 or so and have given me years more life on my phones than I otherwise would have gotten.
Tim Cook put on his "Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again" hat.
Have to recode the battery, and it's been that way for years.
In the BMW community, we justify technical reasoning behind the battery coding of our automobiles' features, but apparently phones, with their comparable levels of complexity, are supposed to use AAA batteries because the company that makes replacement parts has a loud voice. Maybe I am mistaken, but this could be considered a double-standard. I am not apologizing for Apple, I have my own frustrations with the company lately, but I strive for consistency when I opine.
If Apple doesn't want to show the estimated health state for aftermarket batteries, that's fine, but they should have simply refrained from displaying that field. Displaying scary but meaningless warning messages just comes across as rent-seeking behavior. It will (or at least it should) encourage their customers to contact their representatives to support Right To Repair legislation.
Bought the code reader from AliExpress for $150. Then sold it locally once I was done for close to $200.
My biggest gripe was getting the battery in and out of the trunk.
Anywho, a half decent scan tool pays for itself.
I’m also not the only driver and I like the idea of anyone borrowing it being able to pull codes at any time.