Repairing your iPhone with out shelling out plenty of cash to Apple has lengthy felt not possible. However, with current Proper to Restore legal guidelines within the likes of Colorado and Oregon, the brand new iPhones are a bit simpler to restore with out ever setting foot in an Apple retailer. This shift contains Apple's newest product, the iPhone 16e, which debuted final month. It acquired a provisional 7/10 score from iFixit because of options like a brand new restore information for the USB-C port and its easy-release battery adhesive.
The charging port restore information is an enormous deal and one thing even the opposite iPhone 16s don't supply. Nevertheless, that's to not say it's a easy course of. First, you need to take away the again glass, selfie digicam, prime earpiece speaker, battery, Taptic Engine and the checklist goes on. Then you need to elevate up the logic board to entry the port substitute bit. So, it's nonetheless a little bit of a multitude, however a minimum of you now know you're taking the fitting steps as you go alongside it.
The iPhone additionally provides the identical electrically launched battery adhesive as its fellow iPhone 16 fashions. It replaces the stretch-release adhesive which by no means labored in addition to you'd hope. That is additionally the primary time an iPhone has Apple's C1 modem after a decade of rumored growth. iFixit acquired down and soiled with the logic board to discover the C1 modem. The staff went as far as to run the C1 by way of a CT scanner, which revealed that there's not a hint of Qualcomm tech within the bundle.
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