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I’ve done a bunch of these for a repair shop. Lots of different ways suggested on line for how to do it, but what worked best for me was a wide nylon spudger tool wet with high proof alcohol. Slow and steady making sure not to puncture or fold the battery. Have a plan ready to go if it goes up in flames. We had a metal bin full of sand to toss things in to. Good luck!
Can you not still lift slightly, wrap a spludger around the end of the "glue" tape then pull outward as flat as possible with the board so it stays as close to 180 degrees as you can keep it. That's how we used to pull them out years ago. Never had issues with them tearing and such. The whole process would take 15 minutes to having the device booting back up. Maybe they changed the adhesive again after the models I'm thinking of.
iPhone batteries can somewhat reliably be removed that way in my experience. They have a nice pull tab you can get to with tweezers. Sometimes for the laptops if it swells enough it can peel away enough of the adhesive for an easy pull too. I’ve been lucky a few times, but the ones that are stuck on good don’t tend to come easily. I hope more than anything they take the risk seriously and plan. A burning battery is terrifying.
But you have to admit the smell is nice. Not the burning one, just the expanded batteries. They always have a sweet smell that you can sometimes even smell through the gaps on the outside of a device when they are expanding. Always makes me think they smell like radiator fluid should taste like. Both of which should be kept away from dogs and such just because of that. I remember years ago one place I worked they kept all the expanded batteries in a closed container and we would stack them all there until taken for disposal. If you opened the container anyone within a 10ft radius could immediately smell them.