Product Design Batteries Explode—Stop Gluing Them Down You’ve probably heard by now that Samsung’s Note7 has been recalled because it has a startling propensity to burst into flames. The Korean company quickly started exchanging the recalled phones… October 11, 2016 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Teardowns Inside Apple’s New Audio Adapter The decision to axe the iPhone's built-in headphone port and simply put an adapter in the box has provoked reactions ranging from amusement to near panic. Why did they do… October 5, 2016 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit
Teardowns We Just Took Apart the Apple Watch Series 1—Here’s What We Found Out The construction in the new Series 1 exactly matches what we saw in our teardown of the original Apple Watch, right down to that annoying display cable bracket. That's the… October 1, 2016 by Andrew Goldheart
Product Design This Board Game Helps Players Understand What’s in Their Phones Ever wonder where something like an iPhone 7 comes from before it winds up on the shelf? Sure they’re sleek, but electronics are also notoriously complex to manufacture—because so many… September 30, 2016 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Guides iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus Repair Guides Now Available Less than two weeks after our teardown triathlon in Tokyo, our courageous team of engineers are bringing you a full set of repair guides for the iPhone 7 and iPhone… September 29, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Wallpapers Turn Your Phone Inside Out: iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Internals Wallpapers It’s that time of year again! We’re done with our Apple teardowns and we’ve already started on writing repair guides for the new iPhones. Which means we can get onto… September 23, 2016 by Evan Noronha
Legislation Swedish Government Wants to Give People a Tax Break for Fixing Their Stuff The Swedish government is considering legislation that would give tax breaks to people who repair stuff instead of throwing it away. According to The Guardian, the proposal—which is scheduled to… September 20, 2016 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Product Design We Dropped an iPhone 7 Into a Fish Tank—Here’s What Happened Good news for chronic phone fumblers: Apple’s newest iPhones are water resistant. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus have an IP67 rating, which means they theoretically should survive at one… September 19, 2016 by Taylor Whitney
Teardowns The Marathon Teardown Continues With an iPhone 7 We went on a teardown bender and made iFixit history by delivering you three live teardowns in one night. Last up on the teardown table: the iPhone 7. Where the… September 16, 2016 by Julia Bluff - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Watch Series 2: It’s the Same, But Different Last time we had an Apple Watch on our teardown table, we encountered the tiniest tri-point screw we’d ever seen. So tiny, in fact, that we had to file down… September 16, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
