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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They can pony up the exorbitant fee to get access to the Apple repair kit that lets you work on Apple devices.

Then they register the screen replacement with their privileged access.

It was possible with older phones to just swap out the screen but starting with 10 (iirc) it is no longer possible to do without the tools.