San Francisco: In what reminds us of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year, there have been at least half a dozen cases where batteries of newly-launched Apple iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are swelling and phones are being left split-apart. The first case was reported in Taiwan where a woman found her iPhone 8 swollen apart after plugging it in to charge. The woman had purchased a 64GB "Rose Gold" iPhone 8 Plus and she put it on charge, using the supplied cable and adaptor. "After about three minutes, she reported seeing the front panel bulge, and eventually lift completely from the device", media reports said. "Someone in Japan then posted photos of a split-apart phone on Twitter. And in the days since, there've been cases in China, Canada, and Greece," The Verge reported on Saturday. CNET also found at least six different reports in at least five countries of the iPhone 8 splitting along. Apple has issued a statement and said: "We are aware...