More than 60 percent of Americans support a new president removing roadblocks to repairing the things they own, according to a new poll. In a poll of hundreds of people on potential executive orders for the next president, a right to repair order w…
Lees meerWe know you’re waiting for the Moto Razr teardown, and we’ll get there, but first: let’s do some hard-hitting journalism! The Razr is back. And it folds—but differently this time. A foldable phone sounds cool in theory—a screen that bends instead o…
Lees meerThe Nintendo Switch is a remarkable device, in more ways than one. Despite being a kinda-portable, kinda-console system, it’s remarkably repairable. If you’ve got drifting Joy-Cons, a faulty game card or microSD card reader, or a lame battery, we’ve…
Lees meerWe are on the cusp of a major Right to Repair victory in Massachusetts, and we need your help. We asked you to call Representative Tackey Chan and convince him to advance this bill to a committee vote—and boy, did you deliver. Now, the Massachusetts…
Lees meerThese two things can be true: Apple’s new Mac Pro is repairable, and Apple still exerts too much restrictive control over the device. At a glance, Apple delivered the kind of device we’re always asking for, one we hardly expected from them: it’s ex…
Lees meerCompanies have been trying to control the products they sell, after they sell them, for decades. Take a look at the challenges and victories of the Right to Repair movement over a long enough time, and you’ll see it’s not just about phones, or batte…
Lees meer15 years ago, Sonos changed the whole-house audio game. No longer did you have to run a complex grid of speaker wire through your walls and ceiling: with a few wirelessly connected tabletop speakers, you could play music throughout the entire buildi…
Lees meerCommerce is one of the first lessons we teach our children: give money to the person at the store, and in exchange, you get a thing that it is now yours. Sure, as we grow up we learn variations on the theme—contracts with deposits, leases, co-op mem…
Lees meerImagine being stranded at a gas station, trying to figure out why your car won’t start. Then it hits you: your windshield wiper fluid. You refilled it yourself, using unofficial fluid. You didn’t want to buy a delivery subscription or drive to the d…
Lees meerOn January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect. Similar in some ways to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the CCPA gives Californians important data privacy rights. iFixit does not sell your data a…
Lees meerApple has unleashed their legal juggernaut on an innovative iOS security company, and if they win their lawsuit, the damage will reverberate beyond the security community and into the world of repair and maintenance. Corellium’s software creates vir…
Lees meer2019 has been an exciting year at iFixit! Lots of people tagged us in pictures of their repairs on Instagram—these are some of our favorite fixes we saw this year. We started the year with our I’m a Genius campaign to remind people that they don’t h…
Lees meerMany years ago—when the iPhone was still a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye—iFixit started tearing down the latest gadgets and giving them repairability scores: how easy is it to open? How many parts are modular and replaceable? Is the manufacturer trying…
Lees meerLast week, the European Right to Repair campaign, in which is iFixit is active, won the Good Lobby Award for collaboration of the year. But something far more exciting happened just a few days before, when the EU published a plan proving that repair…
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