No mere mortal, lacking Apple’s stamp of approval, can completely fix the company’s products. You can do a lot, but in the newest iPhones, you can’t restore Touch ID, install a new battery, or replace a screen without a warning. Trying to replace co…
Lees meerBattery feeling a little old? Screen cracked beyond recognition? Whether you’ve got a phone from Google, Huawei, Samsung, or Motorola, we’ve got the parts and tools to get it back in tip-top shape. Our 60 new fix kits give you everything you need to…
Lees meerJacquilyn Gonzalez-Johnson’s family has broken two iPhone XRs in the last three months. But even though her husband runs a professional repair shop, she had to drive two hours, without phone service, to the nearest Apple Store that could fit her in.…
Lees meerIn the early summer of 2018, you could buy an Apple Watch with built-in GPS, wireless payments, and speakers that buzz water out after a swim. Meanwhile, Katharine Berry was hustling to keep five-year-old watches with black and white screens alive. …
Lees meerThe iPhone 11 may be the fancy new kid on the block, but the iPhone 5 and 5s are still capable devices for calling, texting, emailing, and web browsing. Better yet, they’re way easier to open than today’s iPhones. But if you want to keep your older …
Lees meerIt was one of the most disastrous product launches we can remember here at iFixit. Even before it left the hands of reviewers, the Galaxy Fold had a reputation for failure. There were mysterious bumps in the display, a removable display covering—th…
Lees meerOn this episode of Repair Radio, we talked about broken coffee grinders, bulging UPS batteries, and how your car’s computer and engine work together so you can get to work on time. We also recapped a busy week full of teardown. How to Listen Downloa…
Lees meerThe 7th-generation iPad is here with a bigger display and a Smart Connector, but what does all that mean for repairability? You’ll have to check our teardown to find out. But right here, we have some fresh iPad 7 teardown wallpapers for you. This iP…
Lees meerApple’s 7th-generation iPad has arrived on the scene with some new bells and whistles! As the most basic tablet in Apple’s lineup, this iPad mostly inherits hand-me-down features from its more prestigious kin. What else has Apple re-purposed? We’re …
Lees meerThis week we tore down the 44mm Apple Watch Series 5 and discovered only a handful of minor differences from last year’s Series 4. However, we eventually got our hands on inside the 40mm model and noticed a fairly significant change not present on t…
Lees meerAfter months of voting accompanied by citizen protests, the European Commission’s new Ecodesign Directive—the first legislation to include Right to Repair language in Europe—went into effect on Wednesday morning. The set of product design requiremen…
Lees meerWhile you were busy reading our iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone 11 teardowns, some of us were busy behind the scenes swapping parts to see just how repair-friendly (or unfriendly) these new iPhones are. After our recent battery swap experiment, where a…
Lees meerNo matter how many cameras your iPhone 11 has, we’ve got some teardown wallpapers for you to show off those juicy new internals. We tore down both the vanilla iPhone 11 and it’s amped up Pro Max sibling, and while most of the guts are similar to las…
Lees meerFor the first time ever, Apple released three new iPhones all at once, and our teardown team has never been busier. We focused most of our efforts on the iPhone 11 Pro Max teardown last week, but we also took a look inside the mid-sized and decidedl…
Lees meerIt’s our favorite day of the year: iPhone Teardown day! Today, we are live-streaming our first disassembly of the iPhone 11 Pro. Join Kay-Kay Clapp, iFixit’s Director of Things, and Sam Goldheart, iFixit’s Lead Teardown Engineer, as they dig into Ap…
Lees meerThe Fairphone 3 teardown is here, and it’s only the second phone ever in which we’ve given a perfect 10-out-of-10 score on our repairability scale. And in typical iFixit fashion, we have some teardown wallpapers to go with that. From the beginning, …
Lees meerThis Friday, while Apple releases its newest iPhones, millions of students, employees, and advocates around the globe plan to walk out the door and join the closest Global Climate Strike. We will be joining them. Irresponsible manufacturing and plan…
Lees meerWhile announcing the Apple Watch Series 5, Apple did a very Apple thing: they touted a new feature, hinted at some of the technology behind it, and left some of us with a lot of questions. The biggest one for us under-the-hood types: what is an “LTP…
Lees meerWhat comes to your mind when thinking about ethical consumer goods? For most, it’s probably things like fair trade coffee or organic cotton—rather than a fair phone. And while it is becoming easier to buy responsibly sourced food or to seek out sust…
Lees meerApple officially did away with the home button on iPhones last year when all of their new iPhones came equipped with Face ID and an edge-to-edge screen. The company still sells the home-button-laden iPhone 8, however, and there are millions of older…
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