Another Apple iPhone 7 explosion caused by overheating of battery Overheating of lithium battery Apple said, it has begun probe into the fire caused by an Apple iPhone 7 in Australia, due to overheating of lithium battery of the iPhone. Sharing pics of his iphone after the blast, Apple iPhone 7 customer Mat Jones said his smartphone has caused the explosion when he left his newly bought Apple iPhone 7 in his car. When he returned, his car was covered in smoke and phone was totally damaged in the blast, said the iphone user, “Ash was just coming from inside the pants, which then once you wrapped open the pants, the phone was just melting inside of it,” Jones said. Media has reported similar incidents of recently launched Apple iphone’s catching fire, due to over-heating. But experts say, it is not clear if iphone caught fire by itself or just fell a victim due to Apple’s Lithium battery’s over heating. If the Apple battery got over-heated it is still d