An inability to replace the iPhone 13's display without breaking Face ID could have a major impact on companies that offer ‌iPhone‌ repairs, iFixit said today in an article advocating for Right to ...

Apple surprised us last year when it announced a new self-service repair program to allow iPhone owners to replace their own broken screens, aging batteries, and other key components. That program ...

Apple has once again run into a problem by making things difficult for independent repair shops to fix or replace things in the iPhone. This time the issue is the iPhone 13 screen and Face ID facial ...

The iPhone 13 series feature the same design concept as their predecessors and many Android flagships. They're "glass sandwich" phones, which means the metal chassis sits between two layers of glass, ...

The smartphone industry, in general, has never looked kindly on third-party repair services, let alone replacement components that were sourced outside of companies' supply chains. Reasons for ...

Back when the iPhone 13 was first released, a teardown video from Phone Repair Guru revealed that Apple had made the iPhone 13 more difficult for third-party repair shops to work with. Now, iFixit has ...

Last week, 9to5Mac reported that Face ID stops working if you replace the iPhone 13 screen with a third-party repair. Now, a new video shows that it’s possible to replace the screen and make facial ...

Apple still isn't really clear about its stance on user right-to-repair, it seems. 14 October 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rottweil: The logo of the US company Apple can be seen on the back of a new ...

After iPhone 13 was announced in September, many repair shops noticed that it wasn’t possible to replace the device’s screen without disabling Face ID. After several complaints, Apple confirmed that ...

Screen repairs by third parties on the iPhone 13 lineup are more difficult because of a tiny chip pairing an handset to its screen, and there is concern that it could permanently damage the repair ...

Apple's iPhone 13 came out in September, and it didn't take long for independent repair shops to find a big problem that would keep them from replacing the phone's screen. The iPhone maker reportedly ...