La Mesa iPhone Repair

Aug 2024

SCAM ALERT! This business is super shady! My mom took my son here to have his iPhone fixed while they go watch the new inside out movie next door. When he got phone back, The screen was fixed, but my son noticed his phone seemed " fatter." But not knowing why or familiarity with it, he just brushed it off. Well next morning his phone literally died at 80 percent or more. This has never happed before, phone would be good for 6-8 hours before needing to be charged. Now it has to be plugged into wall pretty much all the time for the phone to even work. I once upon a time worked at ATT cell phone for 9 years, and I'm very familiar with this. Batteries just don't "magically swell" after screen replacement. They gradually die before getting this bad. Knowing this I went back to this business about what happened. Immediately business owner (in picture) got extremely defensive. Even though HE WASNT THERE, in his words he works on the week days and his brother on the weekends. Now this was a Saturday so it was his brother that did the repair. He defended his brother stating he wouldn't do that and the battery is just bad. There's cameras in the business, so I asked him to do a camera review to make sure. Because this isn't normal and it seems real shady a Battery magically swells up and dies after your brother worked on it. He refused and demanded a police report to view camera footage. So again, no help wouldn't know take the time to research it ( when he literally was just standing doing nothing) so again AVOID THIS PLACE. They will steal whatever good parts on your phone and swap with shit parts and you'll have no way to prove it, and they know this...