Product Design The Most Common Ways Manufacturers Prevent You From Repairing Your Devices Unlike the Highlander, your phone and laptop are not immortal. One day, something will break—you’ll crack the screen, or your battery will become so old it can’t hold a charge.… April 17, 2019 by Whitson Gordon
Teardowns Huawei P30 Pro Teardown: Not Quite Black Hole Photography, but Close The new Huawei P30 Pro aims for superlatives in mobile photography: a new sensor pattern for its main camera, a 50x SuperZoom, and four cameras in total. You might not… April 17, 2019 by Dorothea Kessler - iFixit
Consumer Rights Warranty-Voiding Stickers Are Illegal. These Companies Still Use Them Remember that scene in The Big Bang Theory where the gang wants to upgrade the hard drive in their DVR, but Sheldon is hesitant because it’ll void the warranty? I… April 15, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Right to Repair Right to Repair Is a Free Market Issue Top image by Johan Viirok/Flickr Last week, The New York Times’ editorial board endorsed the Right to Repair movement. While spurred by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) support for a farmer-focused… April 12, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How To What to Do When Your iPhone Screen Breaks When you drop your phone, time tends to slow down. It slips out of your hand and makes a beeline for the concrete, your heart dropping into your stomach as… April 8, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Scandal Apple Won’t Tell You How to Get Your iPhone’s Data Back—So Here’s How Imagine you’re on a canoe trip and you’ve taken thousands of photos of your journey. Suddenly, your phone falls into the lake and becomes water damaged. You didn’t have an… April 5, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Wallpapers iPad Air 3 Teardown Wallpapers The iPad Air 3 is out—and so is our iPad Air 3 teardown. We also made some pretty awesome teardown wallpapers that you can use on your own iPad Air… April 3, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Teardowns iPad Air 3 Teardown: Which One Is This Again? It’s official: we’ve reached peak iPad. Yesterday, we tore down the iPad Mini 5 and found a couple of minor design updates with a smidge of new silicon. Today, we took… April 3, 2019 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Wallpapers iPad Mini 5 Teardown Wallpapers The iPad Mini 5 teardown is in the books, which means teardown wallpapers are here! While the outside remains pretty much unchanged, Apple finally updated the internals of its smaller… April 2, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Teardowns iPad Mini 5 Teardown: Size Is Not the Problem After three and a half years without a refresh, the iPad Mini has awoken from its slumber with some updated internals. Despite appearances, our teardown confirmed that this is not… April 2, 2019 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
