This has certainly been an interesting read- we have a number of Apple products in our home and our friends are fully Apple. Let us know how you get on.
"Apple has ways of telling if someone other than its employees opened an iPhone. Any any non-authorised repairs invalidate the warranty. One way Apple checks this is using a serial number inside the phone; the repair staff check that it is correctly aligned. When a repair technician opens a broken iPhone, they check this sticker – if it isn't aligned they alert the staff, who may refuse to take the repair any further. Apple also checks the LCI (Liquid Contact Indicator) to detect if the iPhone has been submerged in water."
The article goes on to say that with refurbs misaligned stickers or missing LCI have been known.
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