iPhone in pocket swells and smoke erupts, students evacuate classroom = South Korea

A video of smoke coming from the battery of an iPhone belonging to a student in a high school classroom was recently posted online and is attracting attention.
According to Yonhap News on the 4th, around 10 am on the 30th of last month, a second-year student at a high school in Cheonan, Chungnam.
In the live classroom, the iPhone 13 that Mr. A (17) was holding suddenly expanded and began to emit smoke. Mr. A said, ``My cell phone that was in my pocket suddenly became extremely hot and expanded, so I took it out.''
When I tried it, I found smoke coming out from the gap in the iPhone," and ``There was more smoke than I expected, and the smell wasn't good either,'' he said, explaining the situation at the time.
Mr. A's friend took a picture of smoke coming out of the crack on his iPhone and posted it on social media the next day. This video became a Hot Topic both domestically and internationally. Currently, the number of video views is
It has been played over 10 million times. After the video was released, there were a number of voices of concern that the smoke emitted when lithium batteries burn is harmful to the human body.
All windows were opened and everyone evacuated." The smoke actually subsided after about two minutes, and no fire occurred. The school opened classroom windows for ventilation and evacuated students.
It was determined that there were no casualties. Netizens commented, ``Inhaling a large amount of smoke emitted when a battery burns out can cause death,'' and ``Did they put dry ice on it?
"But I didn't realize that the battery had caught fire," he said in disbelief. According to Mr. A, Apple Korea told him that they would exchange it for a new product of the same model.