Tech News Amazon Astro: Are Secret Repair Agents Fixing Tech Design? On the first day of Fixmas, we bring you what is possibly the weirdest teardown of the year: a repairable Amazon device. Meet Astro. The Amazon Astro was born as… December 23, 2022 by Sam Goldheart
Tech News Three-year-old Valve Tech Blows Meta’s VR out of the Water With a glut of AR and VR headed our way—last fall saw Meta’s Quest Pro, and entrants from Apple and Sony are slated for 2023—we thought it was high time… December 13, 2022 by Sam Goldheart
Teardowns The iPad 10 Is Basically the Air 4, But Worse It’s that time of year again, when device manufacturers are vying for a slice of your precious holiday expenditure. Driven by feelings of guilt and inadequacy (maybe that’s just me?),… December 1, 2022 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Teardowns Repairing a Fridge Costs More Than a Fridge In October, the US Federal Trade Commission announced a new set of rules that would require appliances to ship with repair instructions. The repair community applauded the move—access to manuals… November 23, 2022 by Elizabeth Chamberlain
Teardowns Does the Surface Pro 9 Mark a Turning Point for Repairability at Microsoft? In an era flooded with devices that are hard to repair, Microsoft has made some of the worst offenders. Just a few years ago, iFixit teardown engineers awarded the Surface… November 10, 2022 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Teardowns If the Meta Quest Pro Is the Future of Computing We’ll Never Be Able to Fix It The Meta Quest Pro is a premium virtual reality headset that promised to be the cutting edge entry point into Meta’s endlessly hyped metaverse. But can you fix it? November 7, 2022 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Fixers The iPhone 14 Continues Apple’s Digital Repair Lockdown We take a look at the state of parts pairing and serialisation in the latest iPhone 14 line of phones. October 19, 2022 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Teardowns The iPhone 14 Plus Is More Repairable, Too Did you forget there was another iPhone 14 coming out? We don’t blame you. The 14 Plus launches today, weeks after the 14 and 14 Pro. Whether delayed by ongoing… October 7, 2022 by Sam Goldheart
Recycling Apple’s New AirPods Are Telling Users to Replace the Batteries Already. Too Bad That’s Impossible Just a week after the launch of Apple’s AirPod Pro 2, new owners started receiving an unusual alert: It was, apparently, time to replace their batteries soon. This is unusual,… October 5, 2022 by Sam Goldheart
Teardowns Apple Watch Ultra Is Beautiful, Rugged, and Repairability Is Just Within Reach Based on Apple’s keynote, we expected the Apple Watch Ultra to be the most interesting teardown of the year. It was the only brand new product class announced amid the… September 27, 2022 by Sam Goldheart