Been watching your content lately ever since I got my Pixel 7 Pro. What separates you from other teardown channels is the tongue in cheek humour you add to your commentary. It's bloody entertaining!
1:42 "it's interesting that apple has taken time to print the a15 bionic text on the motherboard, paying extra to print in a place that nobody is supposed to see. " "Unless... Apple's counting on people seeing it during my tear down." Looks like Apple is playing 5D chess now.
How incredibly brilliant and revolutionary that Apple printed the chip name on the motherboard considering 99% of iPhone buyers won't even know what an "A15" is.
“If you don’t keep your screws organized, then it’s game over“ for you trying to fix your iPhone 😅😁. You’re probably the one tech reviewer with a comedic touch, good work!!!
@@Neomatrix1001 ofc they don't suggest it to most people, but they do sell spare parts and let anyone who knows what they're doing it without having to use 90 different screw types, a bunch of warning messages and disabled features or just disabled parts for no reason. on a steam deck if u know what ur doing and have opened any tech before, the only way to mess it up is if ur an idiot
@@lowtus7 who cares? that's literally for liability, the face that they make it so easy to do so for those who know what they're doing is praiseworthy, they literally let u get spare parts directly lmao
I worked for many years as a repair tech for an independent shop in my home town. I fixed iphones from the 4 all the way to the 11, no problem, but the 12 was what made me realize independent repair on Apple products just wasn't a good market like it used to be. Entirely changed career paths because the company whose product I saw most made it impossible for customers to be satisfied with my work- constant warnings and even loss of function in some cases for replacing simple parts.
The thing is that Apple wants to ensure people who are repairing phones aren't idiots. I once got a job offer at a local phone repair store and.. they LITERALLY paid workers minimum wage, and said even guys who worked there 20 years would never get a raise, to quote them directly "the states minimum wage going up is your raise" no training you just get a piece of paper and have to figure it out. So they're not exactly going to be a great reflection on Apple if you go to a local repair store and some guy making 10 bucks an hour who dropped out of highschool is repairing it with no experience using cheap parts. The store manager ordered all of the parts from Alibaba at literally dollars, a smartphone screen like 2 dollars.. charging customers 100+ dollars to repair it.. and paying workers 10 dollars an hour, no benefits no raises. If Apple did allow idiots to be "certified" in repairing their phones.. it would damage their brand badly. Apple understands that the common person is an absolute moron, they'll take their iphone to some guy in a back alley to be repaired after they run over it with a car, then will condemn Apple as a company once the sketchy homeless guy in the back alley can't fix it. I can tell you from personal experience, we had no clue what we were doing, I literally was fiddling with devices learning as I go because of zero training. Not the kind of thing you want for an expensive Apple device. I for one will NEVER take my phone to a local repair shop because I know what they use behind the scenes. I am happy to pay a little more for an actual Apple technician to fix my device. Now if my phone was.. maybe 200-300 dollars.. I might be less worried about taking it to some local repair shop. For iPhones it's simply not a good fit.
Really enjoy your tear down videos.... especially the emotions less commentary with a hint of sarcasm 😂 keep up the good work... as such videos are really what keeps the manufacturers in check to some extent
Hey Zack! You actually inspired me to get a job at a local phone repair store (so many iPhone repairs), and are a big reason why I want to get into tech sustainability for my career! Keep up the good work man!
@@DJOHN5ON it could be a high paying job if demand meets. Less repairers = more cash and if you could pull it off you’re looking at a really big cash right there. The pairing itself to the components will be resolve in a week kek
With all the different screw tips used here, these really are the Volkswagen/Audi of phones. Slick and nice looking but underneath designed by engineers who don't care how much the shops suffer doing maintenance.
apple product designers are cool man but, unfortunately they are not the ones who decides whether iPhones should be repairable or not. just look at the motherboard, literally a masterpiece. compare that to any other phone, all of them have green motherboards that makes you feel like you're holding a 5$ remote.
Yes, I actually did repair my wife's OnePlus 3T screen on my first try just watching a screen repair video. Saved quite a lot of money by learning to do so and felt mighty good. She was out of this world happy as I had gifted her that phone on her birthday. And I managed to repair it and get it up and running on our wedding anniversary. Not sure if anyone will have the patience to read this,but,yeah,being able to repair something with your own hands is truly a fulfilling feeling. Oh and I run a tiny but growing channel on RU-vid 😊
I actually work for a small repair shop in town and have repaired my own devices on occasion. Apple's sheer dedication to anti-repair measures is truly mind blowing, especially nowadays considering their earth friendly focus. Their devices have only gotten more and more difficult to properly repair over the years. With most/all of the components being serialized for each individual device since the 12 series, Apple is only making the situation so much worse for consumers, repair shops, and the planet. It is also true that we have lasers to help with the removal of any iPhone back glass. The adhesive they use is so tough that sometimes an additional round of the laser machine is needed just to be able to use a humane amount of force to chip away at the remaining portion of the glass. Wanted to shine some light on common Apple related issues and problems we have to face on a daily basis.
O yess. Good luck explaining customers that your iphone X is stuck in Apple logo because your ear speaker unit stopped working for no reason , and replacing it will lose face ID option. And explain iphone 11 users that your LCD' touch can stop working for no reason and replacing it will give you stupid notification even though the replacement part is original Apple screen 🤦♂️
It's incredible to see that I don't particularly see ANYONE backing up Apple's ideas from a logical stand point on their actions, but they still are able to get away with it. "The rich gets richer" I guess is the term for that...
Apple phones are too premium to let any third party repair shop put their hands on it. I’ve visit third party repair shop a few times before and their work sucks. I will never visit again and rather pay Apple official repair services. That way I know it’s repaired to laser precision. Most third party repair don’t even wear gloves and worked in unsanitary environment full of dust debris. I’ve even seen worker eat food while they work on customers phone. Totally unacceptable. The oils and bacteria from the human skin will enter and multiply inside the phone. Eroding components. This is why repaired phones will die within just a few months.
Hey, I really appreciate you giving us the chance to screenshot the inside as a wallpaper!! I always wanted that as my wallpaper but couldn’t find one. That was really cool and got me more engaged than before 😁
Each year these get worse and worse for repairability. Hugh Jeffreys demonstrated how even swapping genuine parts between two of the same devices will make the phones near useless.
I am an Apple fan personally and prefer their phones to android ones but having worked in a repair shop, mobile carrier shop and being a consumer myself… STOP COCKBLOCKING REPAIRS APPLE YOU SHITS
There’s now a way to swap genuine parts which includes switching a microchip in a screen. There’s a small channel called icorrect that showed that in a video (got to know through phone repair guru) But either way it’s definitely not a sustainable or easy way to replace screens. Right to repair is slowly gaining more traction, hopefully that makes at least some kind in advancements to the improvement of repairability
@@TSE_WOODY ikr almost Everything apple has going for them is torn down because this anti repair garbage They better fix it in a future software update
Agreed. Those are my biggest two gripes as well. I understand them keeping lightning on the regular iPhone 13‘s and the SE. however on a pro phone they absolutely should have USB-C or Thunderbolt like the iPad Pro and MacBooks Pros have. I don’t even care if they mark up the price an extra $100 to compensate for the loss of royalties from Lightning.
Screw the port I don't care. IPhones are pretty cool software wise, cool enough for me to ignore the port situation (I care more about the lack of the aux port), but the repairability is disgusting... If I want to spend any money above 500€ I would probably get a fair phone to not support a greedy disgusting company. If not, 150€ xiaomi phones will literally do everything I would ever throw at it
I actually like the lightning port even tho the cables are annoying, it seems more stable than USB-C. Ive had tons of issues with my past android phone with intermittent data connection for android auto having to change cable every few months to keep it from disconnecting randomly.
@@jamesrosenberg1612 You are the first person I've ever seen make that claim. I've seen A LOT of fucked up lightening cables over the years, cant think of a single ruined USB-C cable... Furthermore USB-C cables are way cheaper, and most people have tens of them lying around their homes, there is literally no reason for Apple to use their stupid proprietary connecter, it has virtually no upsides, a lot of downsides, and is 100% there just to make them more money for the already over-priced cellphones they sell... before I get demolished for the 'over-priced' comment, all major tech companies sell over-priced phones, the fact that everyone does it however doesn't mean it cannot be pointed out and criticized lol
It's 4 months later and I'm watching this for the first time. That bit about *apple using too many screws in Chinese braille* had to be the funniest thing I've heard all weak. Thank you kind and gentle soul.
My new iPhone 13 Mini has a small piece of something white poking out in the crease between where the screen meets the aluminum edge. It’s specifically right by the lower left hand antenna around where the Taptic Engine lies. Can you please let me know what up with this? I’m assuming it’s just something that got stuck there in the factory? Have you ever heard of this before?
" It's hard to take any of apples environmental recycling progress seriously when they aren't doing the reducing and reusing parts "... serious words, quite weird to think every person probably owns a cellphone
Just goes to show how all , from politicians , celebrities to influencers, that preach environmentalism and tree hugging are just doing it for show. They’re not Gona stop flying their big jets, to using child labor to mine their batteries. They want YOU to pay to save their environment while they just benefit of the green tech and their stocks
@@TKUA11 true except for children mining batteries. child labour is not entirely disconnected from lithium batteries but most of the batteries on the market are produced in a pretty respectable fashion, with a environmental impact comparable to the production of steel and aluminium. the idea that batteries are incredibly harmful in every way is a lie to hold back EVs, and probably the most successful lie in that campaign.
Camera sensors have glass filters above them, and as you well know, glass scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7, while stainless steel is level 5.
The sensor itself isn't exposed - there's a piece of glass over it to prevent destroying it just like so. If there were no glass, touching the sensor with your finger would be dangerous, and as we know, it's not.
@@JA-oq9bt Even without a scratch, though, little bits of dirt (and oil, presumably on the tip of that tool unless cleaned with an alcohol swab) can get on the front of the glass, and then if shooting into the sky or other bright sources, you'll see a nice speck in the image if not cleaned off. I mean it's not the end of the world, but why take the risk and have to clean the sensor?
I repaired my own iPhone 6s by replacing the screen with aftermarket from repair universe. Surprisingly the Touch ID works, but not on iPad with same repair, wondered if I missed something
@@hs0988 oof Might I ask what region that is in? Because in my region a 128 gig 12 pro max goes for freaking 1,720 USD If I ever get an apple product I’m definitely gonna get it shipped in, because I wait paying almost 800 dollars more just because it’s from my own country lol
Apple's prowess for design and implementation of all this technology in the palm of your hand; it is simultaneously impressive and also tragic how they've used it against the consumer.
I don't know if some people are blind or something here in comments. It literally takes two screws and hot gun to take of the screen just like any other phone. Everything inside just connects easily and can be removed easily probably easier than most smartphones. Tell one thing they did against customer, is everything inside glued NO, does it require anything extra to open it up NO, he literally ripped of the camera housing and it still works. Replacement prices aren't a big deal mobile shops can replace it easily at nice price apple won't say anything about it.
@@dkdanis1340 Congrats. You've disassembled an iPhone, now what? If you actually want to replace something, good luck. Example: iPhone 12 has a camera that can only be replaced with a proprietary cloud-linked software tool only accessible by certified Apple Technicians. If you try to do it yourself using official hardware from a donor device, it still won't work because of how everything is serialized. There is no DIY repair here.
@@dkdanis1340 Replacing components (if you can get your hands on them) means you will constantly get annoying messages you didn't use the original, also did you not see what he had to do to get the battery out? I remember a time every phone had a removable back cover and battery, and I'm not old in the slightest. Just because every other company does it now too, doesn't mean this is okay. And most companies don't make replacement components hard to find and don't use liek 8 different screw types.
I had a whole basket of them as a kid, which my mom thought would be a good idea to put outside the house one day….. It got stolen. I was collecting them for years….
@@HarbingerOfTears could be worse. My brother was given a 100% complete set of Star Wars toys as a kid, which was immediately opened, violently played with, and subsequently stolen or lost over the next year. 🤣
@@bassyey Yeah, me and the wife JUST bought 2 used Pixel 5 for that price. Running Android 12 as of yesterday! Plus the iPhone is a brick in comparison handled one at Costco and the Sharp corners and edges of the buttons 😝.
Jerry, speaking from someone who worked in phone repair and had a laser cutting machine for back glasses, all of the newer iPhones are extremely hard to do because of all the sensors and connectors that attach to the back glass which make it likely to rip important components while removing the back glass. He had to turn down those iPhones especially for that reason.
I've repaired my oneplus 7t pro twice! First time I changed the back glass panel, second time I switched the charging port! Thanks a ton for making these videos, Zack! They're really helping! Hope you, Cambry and the little one are doing great! Regards Oskar from Sweden
I used to repair iPhones at a few dollars above cost for friends a long time ago. I started by fixing a broken 3gs and went on to repair ~50 or so phones. I had a ton of the little screw driver and prying tool kits. I stopped when I tore the cable to my finger print reader and was serialized out of my own iPhone 6. It was incredibly disappointing. I still repair other small electronics, but I stopped buying apple products since. As a diy guy it's been a great decision for me.
It really is impressive how tightly and neatly they pack everything in there and that miniaturized sensor shift tech is amazing, but it’s a shame they prevent swapping internal components with those software blocks. It just seems like a greedy move
I prefer it but it would be nice if Apple let you turn off the warnings in settings. If I take my phone in I want to know if actual new hardware was used or if it was taken from another iPhone or a knockoff part. I honestly don’t understand this “right to repair” talk. You own the phone. You can do whatever you want with it. But that doesn’t mean Apple or any company is forced to manufacture more parts or forced to sell those parts to anyone they don’t want too. If you aren’t okay with that then don’t buy Apple products. You wouldn’t demand a car company make an electric option just because you want it. You just wouldn’t buy that car. Now would it be nice if any repair shop could buy real parts from Apple? Yes. Should consumers put pressure on companies for things they want? Yes. Should you advocate the government steps in? No. Call me an Apple sheep but I enjoy apple products all the way down the line. I am okay knowing that if I buy an 8gb MacBook Pro I stead of the 16gb I am stuck with that forever. I am comfortable knowing that it’s going to cost me $500 (I buy Apple car plus but if I didn’t) to replace glass on my phone if I drop it and I still go caseless. I research and consider the pros and cons when buying devices. Ultimately it is my fault if I make the wrong decision.
@@HeyItsHades Well cause you're going to always be financially capable of fixing your phone through Apple doesn't mean other people have the leisure of doing so as well. Especially regions without service centres. Your opinion, tho I respect it still seems a little bit too subjective. Imagine owning a toyota car, and then you have to go back to toyota personally to get a new tire for your car, that wouldn't make sense would it?
The first phone repair I ever did was on my LG V20. Thanks to JerryRigEverything and his teardown of the V20, I was able to repair the screen. Great phone and I dearly miss the replaceable battery.
That was a fantastic video I love it I just bought my first 13 Pro Max. That would be a nightmare for me to take apart and put back together like you did great job.
I work at a Apple authorized repair center and me and another technician were talking about the labeling on the processor and the vibe motor and how unusual that was. Our theory is that at the time of design Apple new that they were going to do the new consumer repair program which is why they added the labels.
I work at a phone repair place and no lie every day i have an issue where i have to tell the customer that their phone is gonna lose functionality if we replace certain parts on iphones. Either the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 6-8 or face id on the newer ones. It's actually disgraceful that people still give money to companies that make a living out of screwing their customers over. Right to repair is an important thing. But not giving money to the companies against them is what will really wake them up. Money is all they care about
@Vikings Shadow Because Apple takes all of the guesswork out of the entire PC experience. They make video editing very simple and simpler people who don't comprehend complex issues exist. In large numbers, sadly.
