Gareth Clear, a 36-year-old association expert from Sydney, told neighborhood papers the telephone burst into flames when he tumbled off his bike.
Apple has not reacted to demands for data.
Mr. Clear tumbled off his bike while cycling along a Sydney bicycle trail at the weekend. His telephone was in a pocket of his shorts.
“I just saw smoke returning out of my pocket… besides, a brief timeframe later out of the blue I felt this surging torment in my upper right leg,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I could see it dissolving through my shorts. I essentially looked leg and I had this faint release all down my leg and this scent of phosphorus.”
Mr. Clear said his wounds required skin join surgery.
Lithium-particle batteries can impact into blasts on the off chance that they are joined into an effect.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it gets around one to two reports of client wounds from phone batteries reliably.
It prescribes that individuals don’t go on mobile phones in their pockets.
In the US, lithium atom batteries in “hover boards” have been condemned for 12 scenes, now and again pummeling rooms and even whole homes.
Mr. Clear said he needs Apple to satisfy more to light up individuals of the perils.
“Apple got back in contact with me saying that it looked for true blue and requesting more data so they could bolster me and supplant the telephone,” he said.
“Envision if that was a vigorous kid, pounding a telephone against a table or some individual skiing or running and the telephone sways?”
Conveyor persuading voices in the US and Europe are mulling over bans on going on lithium-atom batteries due to the threats of an effect on board.
Such a boycott would apply to boundless shipments of batteries, as opposed to individual gadgets went on by voyagers.