Five Years of Apple Watches: A Look Inside

In early September 2014, at a “Special Event,” Apple CEO Tim Cook paused after wrapping up of all the exciting new iPhone 6 features the company had unveiled. Cook invoked his Steve Jobs’ famous “one more thing” segue, for the first time since Jobs’…

How Quarantine Is Affecting Recyclers, Refurbishers, and Repair Shops

It’s hard to get new things right now. Laptops, tablets, and home office devices are backordered into irrelevance. New “flagship” phones seem like even more of an unnecessary splurge than they already were. Even Amazon, torchbearer for frictionless …

4 Easy Ways to Save the World (and Your Electronics) on Earth Day

iFixit’s pretty fond of this big blue marble that we call home. We’re also pretty fond of electronics. So, in honor of Earth Day, here’s four really easy things you can do to save the earth—and save your electronics from the landfill too. What’s the…

Beauty and the Bolt’s Xyla Foxlin: What’s In Your Toolbox?

This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Xyla Foxlin, executive director of Beauty and the Bolt, a Cleveland-based non-profit that works to diversify …

#FixAtHome: Repair Culture Is Alive And Defying Quarantine

Two weeks ago, we encouraged you to repair, build, or make something at home and to share your #FixAtHome stories on Twitter and Instagram. We ran this campaign to raise awareness of repair as a solution—not just during COVID-19, but always. Repair …

We’re Fighting Covid-19 by Making iFixit a Central Hub of Repair Information!

Americans want Right to Repair—Even if They’ve Never Heard of It

We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it as long as we need to: Americans want the Right to Repair their stuff. Today, a new survey published by Waveform, an online seller of cell phone signal boosters, shows that almost two thirds of American…

Let’s Have a Moment (and Some Wallpapers) for the Original, Wonderful iPhone SE

Apple today announced a new iPhone SE, a “smaller” phone that puts some of the iPhone 11 Pro’s premium processing power and camera features in the body of an iPhone 8, at a much reduced price. It’s a good time to sell an affordable phone, and we her…

Medical Device “Jailbreak” Could Help Solve the Dangerous Shortage of Ventilators – Ars Technica

Five State Treasurers Demand the Right to Repair from Ventilator Makers

Today the treasurers of Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Delaware, and Rhode Island asked ventilator manufacturers to release key service information hospitals need to maintain their equipment. Their joint statement demands manufacturers “release a…

Ask iFixit: Everything You Wanted to Know About Isopropyl Alcohol

Isopropyl alcohol is having a moment. Not an uplifting celebration, unfortunately. It’s more of a panicked where-can-I-find-it, is-this-the-same-stuff moment. Isopropyl alcohol is a disinfectant at its higher percentages, and you can use it to make …

Huawei Mate Xs Teardown: The Most Durable Foldable Yet?

We’ve Expanded Our Ventilator Project

For the last three weeks, we have been crowdsourcing thousands of repair documents for hundreds of ventilator models. These machines are critical in the fight against COVID-19 but they’re breaking—or already broken by the time they reach the hospita…

Dark Magic: What Caused Google’s Nexus 6P Death Loop (and How to Fix It With a Hairdryer)

My friend’s Nexus 6P died while acting as navigator and DJ on a road trip from upstate New York to Manhattan in February 2017. The 6P froze, rebooted, displayed the Google logo, then rebooted dozens and dozens of times, offering no clue what was wro…

Enough Is Enough: A Few Ways to Buy Less, Fix More, and Avoid Stress

Note: This is a guest post by Russell Graves, who writes about his computer, electrical, and other projects at Syonyk’s Project Blog. We thought this edited version of his essay, about his motivations to buy less and repair more, deserved to be seen…

Fix Your Own Drifting Joy-Con While Nintendo’s Repairs are Closed

What a horrible time to have a Joy-Con curse. I refer, of course, to the curse of having the analog controller on your Nintendo Switch suddenly start drifting, at such a time as this. Link can’t hit anything with his bow, your Animal Crossing charac…

Android, Serial Numbers, and China: Board Repair School, Part 3

Four days into my one-week crash course in board repair and microsoldering, I still had big questions. I’d learned a lot about diagnosing boards and reading schematics, and been through the tough learning curve of microsoldering. But some things kep…

There’s Something New in the (MacBook) Air

You might assume we spent the whole weekend playing Animal Crossing (and you wouldn’t be totally wrong), but we had a few other things on our plate, too: we’re amassing medical ventilator repair information to keep as many of those in service as pos…

Chip Gets Real: Board Repair School, Part 2

This is the second of a three-part series about an iFixit writer’s week at a microsoldering and board repair class. Reading part one isn’t strictly necessary, but it will give you more insight into understanding how boards work, and the people invol…

How to Identify and Get Rid of the Gross Things on Your Phone

Are you social distancing and reading this from inside your house, or performing an essential task? If you answered no, please go back inside your home and stay there before continuing. If you answered yes, good job! You may proceed. Your phone prob…

These Galaxy S20/S20+ Wallpapers Go Way Past 11

Why would you buy Samsung’s Galaxy S20 or S20+ instead of the S20 Ultra? Perhaps you don’t need 100x Space Zoom photos, because you respect your neighbors’ privacy, and you don’t need blurry shots of a dog across the park. Or maybe you’re not feelin…