Chinese netizens have found issues with Apple giving India the heft over the production of iPhones.
For the past week, many netizens have been discussing how to avoid India-made iPhone 15s, a journalist covering China said on X.
Some even published tutorials on how to identify India-made iPhones and how to return them to Apple.
The boycott campaign against Made-in-India iPhone15 reached Weibo which has taken a racist turn
A popular comment on China's Quora-like platform Zhihu says that Apple was politically motivated to produce iPhones in India and that Chinese consumers should let them know this is not okay by boycotting them
Some even wrote that the best way to identify India-made iPhones is to smell it. Others made fun of India-made iPhones being dirty because they say Indian people don't use toilet paper
The rumours stem from unfound claim that Europe has rejected India's iPhones, citing poor quality