You should rephrase that to: essentialy if you use a smartphone you have no privacy. Because Google isn’t the only one sucking up all your information.

Take the packaging with you on the trip. Stop by another Verizon store and trade it if they have what you want. If not, try another store. Don’t settle for what you don’t want or you’ll never be happy

Then due diligence is not being done and you get what you get. I can’t feel sorry for people that don’t do that then complain. Because they are lots of ways to search and come up with the correct information. (Forest Gump voice) That’s all i have to say on that.

>replacement iphone battery

doing this exact search brings up info about doing it yourself. this is not what OP was looking for. so at that point anyone would search a different term. if you (not exactly you but "you") are the type to search one term, not find what you were looking for and say oh well, then you should just step away from the internet and crawl back under your rock. but also going to the ifixit page that comes up from this search has info right at the beginning of the instructions talking about his exact complaint. so again, a few minutes with google and the info can be had. let's also not forget he came to this forum to complain. something most people do not know to do. but he did it. and had he spent some time with reddit's search function, he probably could have gotten the info right from this sub.

A simple “iPhone aftermarket battery” brings up tons of relevant results. So does “iphone 3rd party battery replacement”. Don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what to put in the search engine.

5 minutes on Google would have made him aware of all of this. This is a known thing and has been talked about extensively. It amazes me that in this day and age where information is abundant and instant people can’t take 5 minutes to do a minor amount of research. Had he done so he could have asked questions ahead of time or just gone to Apple. This is such an avoidable issue.