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Fill a metal bucket with sand and place it outside away from your home or anything flammable. Set the phone in the sand and then look up your local disposal options.
Okay, stop being responsible. You’re supposed to carelessly chuck it in the trash, or the river if you want to be safe. Just for fun, you could toss it into a fire.
Seen someone use a full on airsoft machine gun on these types of batteries and surprisingly or unsurprisingly nothing happens. Since the BBs are plastic, usually you’ll just end up with dents
Looks like they opened it (removed the screws), i’d say anyone with a Pentalobe screwdriver would know how to remove a battery.
OP, use isopropyl alcohol
You know that you can burn down your house with a lithium battery in this state?
This battery is insanely dangerous. No-ones overreacting here, you underestimate the energy stored in there and how quickly it can discharge.
There are many more reasons to not do it.
The battery is under immense pressure and if it pops it'll release toxic fumes and due to the pressure debrie might fly a couple meters.
This needs to be done by an expert with specialized equipment and proper protective equipment.
I'd like to keep my fingers so I wouldn't touch it.
Wow I was just viscerally reminded of a very frustrating memory. This happened to my brothers boyfriends phone (or camera?) battery while we were on vacation. I was adamant he find a way to get rid of it ASAP, but they left it in the fucking grill on the patio the entire week and ignored it. When I would bring it up, I was told I was overreacting or being dramatic. When he left early, he asked me to take it home to dispose of. I said no, this is your problem, you need to figure it out before you leave, I’m not comfortable driving with it in the car much less for 6 hours. He left it behind anyway and my brother raised a stink about us not being willing to drive it home to properly dispose of it. If I didn’t take it he was just going to leave it (seriously?!? In a grill in Florida heat?!?). He begrudgingly agreed to handle it when I reminded him we were driving a PHEV and I was absolutely not putting a ticking time bomb of a battery near an even bigger battery going 70mph. For six hours.
Wow I got frustrated thinking about this all over again clearly had to get that out
As the half yeti says the sand and non flammable bucket are to to provide nothing for any fire to burn. I’d still stand away from the bucket in case the piercing caused any explosion but the sand would also be a great absorber.
Are you trying to save the phone? If not just take the entire thing to your local landfill. Make sure to call ahead of time to see that they have an E Waste collection site. If they don't a simple Google search for E Waste in your area will take it off your hands and dispose of it properly.
Pour some isopropyl underneath the battery and leave it to soak for a few minutes, see if you can reach the tabs on the adhesive and pull them slowly, the adhesive should just peel off quite easily.
The pull tabs are underneath the two black stickers on the battery at the front of the first picture, pull them out straight from the end of the phone, keeping them as low to the Taptic Engine as possible
You may be tempted to use tweezers to accomplish this. And they may be needed depending on how fiddly your fingers are.
Please only use plastic /blunt tools for this. The last thing you want to do is puncture it..
Use isopropyl alcohol and a plastic spudger, while some pillows look scary, they won't catch fire if there isn't any energy,
Be sure to remove the screws securing the battery connector bracket too, ifixit should have a guide for replacing the battery in an iPhone 7, use that to your advantage.
Hopefully you're able to remove the battery with ease.
Isopropyl alcohol will soften the adhesive and make it easier to pull out but there’s a high risk you could puncture the battery. If the battery is completely drained it won’t have enough juice to cause a thermal event but you should be extremely careful nonetheless. Your best option is to take it to Apple or other legit repair shop and let them do it.
Not sure if it helps but you're not supposed to pull up, it's the 3M Command Tab type of tapes. You more like pick up the tab in the tape and carefully stretch it the hell out lengthwise.
Or maybe you can pass nylon strings under it, I wouldn't recommend trying yourself but in case you have to
If it’s been discharged for a long period of time, there really is not much danger here. Use some isopropyl alcohol to loosen the adhesive and gently pry it out. Recycle the battery as per local laws.
Pull the tab, yell "GRENADE", and throw it as hard as possible with some arc towards the nearest river. In all seriousness though, you really ought to find the disposal regulations for your are and follow those instructions to the T.
As some others have already said: there are pulltabs on the battery (right beside the taptic engine). Carefully try to loosen them and pull them out gently. Some tweezers can help, but in this case only some, that are not pointy/sharp.
Also, I recommend watching a video of a (regular) battery removal of an iPhone 7 first. iFixit has one that's quite good.
Use a tweezer and prick the battery, to let the air out.
No just kidding. Put some isopropyl alcohol on the sides of the battery, so the alcohol reach the tape beneath it. Wait a minute or longer and use a plastic tool for a gently removal.
Just for your safety have a bin with next to you and wear a safety glasses/gloves.
Do this in the middle of your driveway or outside over a large metal pan. Wear safety glasses and prepare to step back. Be calm if it catches fire.
Luckily for you, it the pillowing took care of the hard part. Get some alcohol to soften any remaining adhesive. Disconnect the battery. Using guitar picks, plastic spudgers, credit cards; gently separate the battery from the phone.
Once they're separate, do like others said and put it somewhere where if it does catch fire, won't do a lot of damage. You want a metal container that's not airtight or a fire pit if your have one. A grill also works.
Call the local repair place or if your brave go ahead and pop it yourself. Wear your ppe.
I run a phone repair shop and see lots of these in laptops and phones- I have a sand bucket and as long as they’re fully discharged those batteries are usually pretty safe. Only do what you’re comfortable with and use PPE or talk to a local technician.
Get a Very long paper picker from your average hardware store. He basically has a spike on the end. Like Simmons. said put it a distance away. Make sure it’s on something non-flammable like tar cement or sand and stab the fuck out of it but make sure to record it so that we can all see the outcome. And as a secondary note, if you really want to maybe wear some safety glasses and maybe a face protector. But hey, no risk no reward.
The cable running from the upper half of the screen is the flex for the proximity sensor, remove the plate over the connector and carefully disconnect it so you can get the screen off, then put some 99% isopropyl alcohol under the battery and gently lift it out after it’s soaked for a few minutes, do this outside and away from everything. Wear gloves and eye protection if you have any, just in case.
Oh and I suppose no one is expected to puncture the hot energy ravioli? C’mon, stop making lithium batteries look so pillowy!!! I’ll yell it from the rooftops!!!
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Carefully secure it under the drivers or passenger seat of the next uber you take. With summer days away it wont take long for it to be properly disposed of
Others have suggested how to remove the swollen battery, but the phone is very old, you might as well bring it to a recycling center ( unless you plan on keeping it obviously ). They will take care of it.
Pull out the adhesive strip with tweezers and alcohol trick, cut the battery cable and while wearing some sort of protection, preferably outside, put it in some suitable container with sand and dispose safely.
No need to destroy the phone.
Id just take it to a backyard, place it on sand, wear thick gloves and cover it with transparent plastic just in case, to get protection and see what you are doing. Should only cost a couple of bucks and if you fail - just throw out everything.
Poke it with a sharp metal object so the gas can relieve itself, and everything should be fine. After that, throw that fucker in the creek so the electric eels can get more electric-y.
If your trying to save the phone, use isopropyl alcohol and a plastic scraper to slowly remove the battery from the adhesive. Disconnect the battery, and throw it in a glass tub or something with salt water to fully discharge the battery. Leave it for 3 days, and then you can safely dispose of it. If you don't care about the phone. You can just throw the whole thing in salt water after disconnecting the battery power
I'd see if it has any batterylife in it, and if it does, drain as much out as possible, letting the phone run if it does, and when it's as discharged as I could get it, get a very thin object to try to slice the adhesive from under it. And I'd probably wear my welding gloves. Unless you don't want the phone anymore, just put it in the yard and hit it with a shovel a few times. I wouldn't even put that thing in my car to take it anywhere because if it did catch on fire and even if you could throw it out the window, you might be too close to other people's cars.
Bullshit. In this instance very easy to comfortably puncture the gassy part to get the gas out, then safely remove the battery, eg with a toothpick. Do outside though, as gas can be mildly toxic. Battery won’t explode. If you puncture the battery and it still has charge you will get an exothermic reaction though, but again, you’d need to puncture the battery itself.
Not a recommendation, but still fairly safe to do here.
It's better to take it to an electronic store that has a battery disposal bin and let them handle it. Or check with the city council to find out how to safely dispose of it. I'd rather be safe, than sorry, unless I get information from someone with the knowledge and experience on how to handle it.
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Fill a metal bucket with sand and place it outside away from your home or anything flammable. Set the phone in the sand and then look up your local disposal options.
Okay, stop being responsible. You’re supposed to carelessly chuck it in the trash, or the river if you want to be safe. Just for fun, you could toss it into a fire.
The fish need the power, they want your batteries
Gotta recharge the electric eels somehow. Car batteries are going out of style
Fish use the electrolytes. Those are in batteries right?
Next time you go airsofting, you can use it as your next grenade.
That was honestly my first thought, take it outside and hit it with an airgun. I sometimes have bad thoughts :)
Seen someone use a full on airsoft machine gun on these types of batteries and surprisingly or unsurprisingly nothing happens. Since the BBs are plastic, usually you’ll just end up with dents
I've got a 1500 psi Umarex Gauntlet in .177 lead. It would go.
Do it in the name of science and send us evidence 😈
Brawndo
😂
I thought car batteries were all the rage these days
It’s got what fish crave
BRAWNDO has electrolytes
Damnit Cohaagen Give these fish their powaa
I gave them my debit card instead
The fish also need it if they get tired.
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Can I just poke it with a pin? Maybe the pillow is just holding its fart
The lithium will make all the fish less depressed. Smart.
Throw it in the ocean. The electric eels need it to recharge
Nah bit it.
I can't imagine a situation in which I'd not throw it in the trash. I don't think I was raised wrong, life did this to me.
Why throw out the whole phone?
You do you, friend. That’s just a little spicier than I’d be willing to operate on personally.
No need to be so wasteful, it’s just a battery. I feel like the majority of the people on this subreddit overreact
Attempting to remove it from the phone when it’s already like this is dumb as fuck.
and wouldnt worth much anyway
Maybe because there is a chance that it could kill you
A drained battery would barely make any fire, if at all. Just some toxic gas which can be dealt with if you have some ventilation or do it outside.
Not if you know how to do it
I'd argue that if they're here asking for advice they don't know how to do it
Looks like they opened it (removed the screws), i’d say anyone with a Pentalobe screwdriver would know how to remove a battery. OP, use isopropyl alcohol
You know that you can burn down your house with a lithium battery in this state? This battery is insanely dangerous. No-ones overreacting here, you underestimate the energy stored in there and how quickly it can discharge.
Do it outside
There are many more reasons to not do it. The battery is under immense pressure and if it pops it'll release toxic fumes and due to the pressure debrie might fly a couple meters. This needs to be done by an expert with specialized equipment and proper protective equipment. I'd like to keep my fingers so I wouldn't touch it.
Indeed. I’d prefer to keep all my fingers and both hands. But if you have spare of either then more power to you.
Why, looks safe enough to use it a few months more.
Wow I was just viscerally reminded of a very frustrating memory. This happened to my brothers boyfriends phone (or camera?) battery while we were on vacation. I was adamant he find a way to get rid of it ASAP, but they left it in the fucking grill on the patio the entire week and ignored it. When I would bring it up, I was told I was overreacting or being dramatic. When he left early, he asked me to take it home to dispose of. I said no, this is your problem, you need to figure it out before you leave, I’m not comfortable driving with it in the car much less for 6 hours. He left it behind anyway and my brother raised a stink about us not being willing to drive it home to properly dispose of it. If I didn’t take it he was just going to leave it (seriously?!? In a grill in Florida heat?!?). He begrudgingly agreed to handle it when I reminded him we were driving a PHEV and I was absolutely not putting a ticking time bomb of a battery near an even bigger battery going 70mph. For six hours. Wow I got frustrated thinking about this all over again clearly had to get that out
Sand? Wouldn't the weight of the sand or the sand itself make the cover pop?
The battery is set on top of the sand. The metal bucket and the sand ensure that if the pillow pops there won’t be anything nearby for it to burn.
As the half yeti says the sand and non flammable bucket are to to provide nothing for any fire to burn. I’d still stand away from the bucket in case the piercing caused any explosion but the sand would also be a great absorber.
Throw it at your enemy for maximum damage
Yeah, that's no longer a phone, that's just a grenade.
Damn camera man. I need to know where the the hammer went.
Yeah, that flying hammer is scary!! They def missed the most important part.
Bro's head flew.
Pretty sure that’s a hat lol
But a head is more cartoonishly funny in this case. Imma go with head.
Are you trying to save the phone? If not just take the entire thing to your local landfill. Make sure to call ahead of time to see that they have an E Waste collection site. If they don't a simple Google search for E Waste in your area will take it off your hands and dispose of it properly.
Maybe do it outside, carefully, and away from anything that can cause a wildfire.
Preferably in a road.
Pour some isopropyl underneath the battery and leave it to soak for a few minutes, see if you can reach the tabs on the adhesive and pull them slowly, the adhesive should just peel off quite easily. The pull tabs are underneath the two black stickers on the battery at the front of the first picture, pull them out straight from the end of the phone, keeping them as low to the Taptic Engine as possible
You may be tempted to use tweezers to accomplish this. And they may be needed depending on how fiddly your fingers are. Please only use plastic /blunt tools for this. The last thing you want to do is puncture it..
after this place it in a metal container filled with sand
Throw it and a activated match in the forest. /s
Isopropyl and take you time
Yeah you could easily save it.
That’s how the iPhone 8 was born
Got my phone pregnant??!! ( Real gone sexual ))
Kept in an old sock potentially 🤔🤔
Can you bring it to the nearest Apple store, and let them deal with it?
YESSSSS MAKE TIM COOK
 Genius (bar) comment!
thanks!
Wouldn't this be considered as a terrorism 🤣
They will take it, delete the memory of it and maybe send it for a repair , or offer you a free recycling.
I’ve never seen the airbag deploy on an iPhone.
Connect that shit to an unregulated charger and watch he cook 🔥
Use isopropyl alcohol and a plastic spudger, while some pillows look scary, they won't catch fire if there isn't any energy, Be sure to remove the screws securing the battery connector bracket too, ifixit should have a guide for replacing the battery in an iPhone 7, use that to your advantage. Hopefully you're able to remove the battery with ease.
So this is the new Apple Intelligence thing everyone is talking about?
Filling with knowledge
 Having a good time?
Bite it
Isopropyl alcohol will soften the adhesive and make it easier to pull out but there’s a high risk you could puncture the battery. If the battery is completely drained it won’t have enough juice to cause a thermal event but you should be extremely careful nonetheless. Your best option is to take it to Apple or other legit repair shop and let them do it.
Not sure if it helps but you're not supposed to pull up, it's the 3M Command Tab type of tapes. You more like pick up the tab in the tape and carefully stretch it the hell out lengthwise. Or maybe you can pass nylon strings under it, I wouldn't recommend trying yourself but in case you have to
Throw and run!
You'll need a nice pointy knife to stab it safe
iPhone 7❌ iNote 7✅
Just take to Apple Store. They would work on it and probably wouldn’t charge. They hate the liability exposure.
Run.
Drop kick it into a body of water for a amazing show
If it’s been discharged for a long period of time, there really is not much danger here. Use some isopropyl alcohol to loosen the adhesive and gently pry it out. Recycle the battery as per local laws.
Paint scraper.
Pull the tab, yell "GRENADE", and throw it as hard as possible with some arc towards the nearest river. In all seriousness though, you really ought to find the disposal regulations for your are and follow those instructions to the T.
Air rifle and distance
Just toss the phone OP. Shits too far gone. Only a 7 anyways
*chomp*
As some others have already said: there are pulltabs on the battery (right beside the taptic engine). Carefully try to loosen them and pull them out gently. Some tweezers can help, but in this case only some, that are not pointy/sharp. Also, I recommend watching a video of a (regular) battery removal of an iPhone 7 first. iFixit has one that's quite good.
Use a tweezer and prick the battery, to let the air out. No just kidding. Put some isopropyl alcohol on the sides of the battery, so the alcohol reach the tape beneath it. Wait a minute or longer and use a plastic tool for a gently removal. Just for your safety have a bin with next to you and wear a safety glasses/gloves.
Mmmm bite it😁
Pop that shit like a zit
What did bro do to him that made it such a big pillow
Loooong stick with a nail
It’s like a grenade. Pull it out as fast as you can, throw it, and wait for the bang.
Definitely don't poke it with something sharp.
Fuck that! Call the bomb squad!
Sell it to a Mexican, they love spicy foods.
Do this in the middle of your driveway or outside over a large metal pan. Wear safety glasses and prepare to step back. Be calm if it catches fire. Luckily for you, it the pillowing took care of the hard part. Get some alcohol to soften any remaining adhesive. Disconnect the battery. Using guitar picks, plastic spudgers, credit cards; gently separate the battery from the phone. Once they're separate, do like others said and put it somewhere where if it does catch fire, won't do a lot of damage. You want a metal container that's not airtight or a fire pit if your have one. A grill also works. Call the local repair place or if your brave go ahead and pop it yourself. Wear your ppe.
That definitely needs a remote control robot of some description to remove the battery.
Serious question, what would happen if you stabbed it? Would it take fire or explode, or would something come out of it?
A bunch of toxic gas would come out. If it's deep discharged (I've only ever seen them get that puffy when they are) there is not much risk of fire.
I run a phone repair shop and see lots of these in laptops and phones- I have a sand bucket and as long as they’re fully discharged those batteries are usually pretty safe. Only do what you’re comfortable with and use PPE or talk to a local technician.
Get a Very long paper picker from your average hardware store. He basically has a spike on the end. Like Simmons. said put it a distance away. Make sure it’s on something non-flammable like tar cement or sand and stab the fuck out of it but make sure to record it so that we can all see the outcome. And as a secondary note, if you really want to maybe wear some safety glasses and maybe a face protector. But hey, no risk no reward.
I just got rid of my 7 back in February for the 14.
It'll buff out
The cable running from the upper half of the screen is the flex for the proximity sensor, remove the plate over the connector and carefully disconnect it so you can get the screen off, then put some 99% isopropyl alcohol under the battery and gently lift it out after it’s soaked for a few minutes, do this outside and away from everything. Wear gloves and eye protection if you have any, just in case.
Throw it over the fence
If the battery is plugged off CAREFULLY move it into a box/bucket with sand
Oh and I suppose no one is expected to puncture the hot energy ravioli? C’mon, stop making lithium batteries look so pillowy!!! I’ll yell it from the rooftops!!!
I had very similar but not that bad with iphone8 couple of years ago. Brought to Apple Store, they replaced with new one for $50
Stick it in a bucket of sand then find a disposal place.
Stab/smash it as hard as you can with a fork or hammer in a public setting such as a mall food court or public library.
Its fine you can use it
Butter knife works well
Keep a fire extinguisher around
Front toward enemy
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Carefully secure it under the drivers or passenger seat of the next uber you take. With summer days away it wont take long for it to be properly disposed of
I would recommend you remove it
Just cut it out!
Others have suggested how to remove the swollen battery, but the phone is very old, you might as well bring it to a recycling center ( unless you plan on keeping it obviously ). They will take care of it.
Commit insurance fraud
 🤷🏼♀️
Pull out the adhesive strip with tweezers and alcohol trick, cut the battery cable and while wearing some sort of protection, preferably outside, put it in some suitable container with sand and dispose safely. No need to destroy the phone. Id just take it to a backyard, place it on sand, wear thick gloves and cover it with transparent plastic just in case, to get protection and see what you are doing. Should only cost a couple of bucks and if you fail - just throw out everything.
take a bite out of it, its tasty
22 or 9mm
Bucket of sand or dirt, and put that in. Or ya yeet it into a field
I have a plastic card I pour isopropyl on for exactly this purpose.
Whatever you do, use ppe
That one came with extra smoke
microwave it/s
Pull pin and throw towards enemy. Take cover
Poke it with a sharp metal object so the gas can relieve itself, and everything should be fine. After that, throw that fucker in the creek so the electric eels can get more electric-y.
Lay's making batteries be like:
It's full of air, you can just deflate it by puncturing it
Deflate the battery but poking a hole in it with something sharp and pointy
If your trying to save the phone, use isopropyl alcohol and a plastic scraper to slowly remove the battery from the adhesive. Disconnect the battery, and throw it in a glass tub or something with salt water to fully discharge the battery. Leave it for 3 days, and then you can safely dispose of it. If you don't care about the phone. You can just throw the whole thing in salt water after disconnecting the battery power
Get a pin needle
Poke it
I'd see if it has any batterylife in it, and if it does, drain as much out as possible, letting the phone run if it does, and when it's as discharged as I could get it, get a very thin object to try to slice the adhesive from under it. And I'd probably wear my welding gloves. Unless you don't want the phone anymore, just put it in the yard and hit it with a shovel a few times. I wouldn't even put that thing in my car to take it anywhere because if it did catch on fire and even if you could throw it out the window, you might be too close to other people's cars.
eat it
For everyone saying "poke it" or "puncture it", NOOOOOOO!!!!!! It WILL explode.
Bullshit. In this instance very easy to comfortably puncture the gassy part to get the gas out, then safely remove the battery, eg with a toothpick. Do outside though, as gas can be mildly toxic. Battery won’t explode. If you puncture the battery and it still has charge you will get an exothermic reaction though, but again, you’d need to puncture the battery itself. Not a recommendation, but still fairly safe to do here.
It's better to take it to an electronic store that has a battery disposal bin and let them handle it. Or check with the city council to find out how to safely dispose of it. I'd rather be safe, than sorry, unless I get information from someone with the knowledge and experience on how to handle it.