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Apple products aren't necessarily made for you to repair them at home; you generally need to take your ailing iPhone or Macbook Pro into an Apple retail store for any significant fixes or part replacement.youtube.com Now, however, a YouTube account has apparently leaked eleven official-looking internal training videos that show how repairs are made on iPhone X, iMac Pro and MacBook Pro. The videos were apparently sourced from Twitter by Arman Haji, who uploaded them to YouTube after the Twitter account was suspended, according to Motherboard. The videos also show how well sites like iFixit have been able to reverse engineer the repair process; Motherboard notes that the process in the iPhone X battery replacement video is extremely similar to that used in iFixit's own procedure.youtube.com These official-looking videos will likely be taken down soon, so be sure to check them out now. We've embedded a few below and linked to the rest after that. Update: The repair videos have now been taken down. At least we'll have the memories?
He writes: "Sales of Apple Watch Series 4 and iPad Pro were constrained much or all of the quarter. Apple claims that economic weakness in emerging markets is primarily responsible for its unexpected decline in sales, including China. There’s external evidence to suggest this is true. Reports from the past year have highlighted a decline in Apple’s market share in China and suggested that the company could be pinched by declines in overall demand for products there. This was forecast by some analysts as far back as November. According to Tim Cook, the decline in Chinese sales accounts for more than 100 percent of its revenue decline.
Low GDP growth in China and the trade war with the US both played a part, but Cook states that all of the decline is attributable to Apple iPhone sales and that most of those sales (didn’t) occur in China. None of the other countries are discussed by name. Cook does take the time to single out a special group of people he feels are responsible for his company’s failure to make more money: People who replaced their batteries. This is a rather dubious argument for Apple to make. After years of being accused of deliberately making its products slower to push people towards buying new phones, Apple decided to actually make people’s products slower without telling them it had done so. It took this step after failures in its own manufacturing process caused damage to its batteries.
29 battery replacements if nothing else was wrong with your phone. If you brought in a phone that was otherwise damaged (or deemed to be damaged by Apple), they’d sometimes charge you to repair that additional damage as well, even if had nothing to do with the battery. Having been caught crippling user devices without notification, Tim Cook has the temerity to blame user desire not to be screwed out of devices that still have years useful life as a reason for his company’s poor financial performance. Granted, the CEO doesn’t pretend this constitutes the majority of the difference, but the point is made.
If Apple misses its earnings targets, it’s in part because customers had the gall to insist on being made whole after Apple lied by omission about performance throttling. If you want to understand why customers might be looking to companies other than Apple, it’s simple. Apple has spent the past few years declaring what its customers don’t want. Customers, according to Apple, don’t want headphone jacks. They don’t want small phones. 750. They don’t care if their new devices lack features other Android products offer. Apple customers don’t want devices that inform them whether they’re throttling performance to save the battery. Apple customers don’t want devices that keep working without succumbing to hardware failures like touch disease.
Apple customers don’t want affordable AppleCare prices and they don’t want affordable out-of-warranty repair rates. They don’t want keyboards that work. They don’t want affordable workstations on reasonable update cycles. They don’t want non-buggy software. They don’t want smart speakers that function outside the Apple ecosystem. They don’t want laptops with UEFIs that work out of the box without severe throttling. They don’t want to fix their own equipment or to be allowed to choose which repair service works on their own hardware. Apple customers don’t want undamaged iPad Pros. They actually want iPad Pros that are bent on arrival, even though Apple products that bend easily from the outset have been demonstrably proven to fail more quickly.
If you don’t think this is normal, it’s because you have the wrong set of expectations. Alternatively, you may lack courage. What Apple customers want, according to Apple, is to pay more money every year forever, regardless of whether the products it designs justify the premiums it wants to charge for them. And maybe — just maybe — after years of being told that they don’t want affordable, well-built products with competitive features and capabilities, people are starting to push back and find other equipment to buy. Blame macroeconomic conditions. Blame currencies. Blame the lack of carrier subsidies. Blame trade war tensions. Blame varying customer tastes. But before you blame people for daring to take advantage of a battery program you created to fix your own epic failure, maybe take a moment to acknowledge your own culpability.
Finding the opportunity to get your smartphone repaired can be a huge drain on your free time. 8.40. This is a few bucks below its average selling price, and just a few cents above the lowest price we've ever seen on it. This handy repair kit is suitable to help with your smartphones, game consoles, watches, eyeglasses, and more. It features a precision aluminum screwdriver with a telescopic handle along with two mini pry bars, an opening pick, a SIM card ejector tool, and a suction cup which all come packaged in a durable zippered travel case. Its 1 and 3/4-inch S2 screwdriver bits can fit into extremely tight spaces and a pentagonal size is included for iPhone and iPad repairs. AmazonBasics backs up this kit with a one-year limited warranty, while over 138 customers left a review resulting in a rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars. This post may contain affiliate links. See our disclosure policy for more details.
A broken smartphone is like a broken limb. Suddenly, something you rely on every day is a hobbled version of its former self, and the convenience and ease with how you got through life before it takes a severe step back. Naturally, capitalism ensures that those who stand to gain the most from making smartphone repairs prevent any competition. Enter Apple: the tech giant is currently lobbying against a New York state bill that would compel electronics companies to make available information that would make it easier for customers and third-party repair businesses to fix broken smartphones. That specifically means that Apple would be legally mandated to sell replacement parts and tools to the public, prohibit software locks that place limits on repairs, and require companies to make repair guides available to consumers.
Apple, along with other companies like Verizon, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, and several tech industry trade organizations, are all working together to oppose its passage in the New York state legislature. Apple has a pretty big financial incentive for lobbying against such laws. 4 billion on cell phone repairs in 2015 alone. 7.04 billion in sales last year. Even a fraction of that is a pretty hefty sum for the company to want to safeguard. Third-party repair shops or savvy customers who know what they’re doing will not necessarily buy premium repair parts from the device manufacturers themselves. A store down the block might use a much cheaper replacement screen for an iPhone instead of the much more expensive part Apple makes. In addition, Apple probably prefers other customers who aren’t covered to still come directly to them for paid repairs, instead of other vendors. "We protect fingerprint data using a secure enclave, which is uniquely paired to the Touch ID sensor. When iPhone is serviced by an authorized Apple service provider or Apple retail store for changes that affect the touch ID sensor, the pairing is re-validated. This check ensures the device and the iOS features related to touch ID remain secure. Without this unique pairing, a malicious touch ID sensor could be substituted, thereby gaining access to the secure enclave. When iOS detects that the pairing fails, touch ID, including Apple Pay, is disabled so the device remains secure.
Is the port faulty? Is the cable faulty, or has the device failed? USB is an extremely common and pretty convenient connection standard, but it has its annoyances (such as putting the cable in the wrong way round) and occasionally goes wrong. In this article we explore the steps you should take if the USB port on a Mac stops working and you're not sure why. We'll start with the simple stuff. Make sure the cable is properly fixed into the port. Take it out and put it back in again to ensure a snug connection.youtube.com Check for detritus in the port that may be getting in the way. Give it a quick blow or use a can of compressed air.
We would advise against poking around with a straightened paperclip etc, but a soft cotton-wool bud ought to be okay. Try the same at the device end, too. A couple more solutions to try before we get into troubleshooting. Is the port faulty? If the basics don't work, we need to establish where the fault lies. Try plugging the same device/cable into a different USB port on the same Mac (assuming it's got more than one), and into a USB port on a different Mac or a Windows PC. If it works as soon as you try a different port, then the first port is (probably) faulty: if this is the case, you'll need to decide whether to manage without that port or get it repaired.
If it only works when you switch to a different machine, then you've probably got a Mac-wide issue. If it doesn't work wherever you plug it in, then the problem probably lies with either the cable or the device you're plugging into the Mac. We'll look at that next. Is the cable faulty, or has the device failed? These can be trickier to test, and you may need to borrow items from friends or even spend a little money on spares from Amazon, Apple or elsewhere. Keep everything as it was - same port, same Mac, same device - but connect them with a different cable. Does that fix the problem? If so, the first cable is almost certainly faulty, and you just need to replace it (which is pretty cheap, luckily).
If the cable isn't the problem - ie using a different one doesn't solve the issue - then we should repeat the test with a different device on the end.youtube.com Try connecting a different iPhone, iPad or USB accessory to the Mac using the same port and cable. If this fixes things, then there's a problem with the device or its port. If it's a cheap USB stick (that doesn't have any vital data on it) this might be good news; but getting an [https://rapidiphone.repair/ iphone repair] repaired can be expensive if it's out of warranty and you haven't got AppleCare. It's also possible that the device simply isn't compatible with your Mac, or that it needs a software/driver update to work with it, so check those factors before rushing into a costly repair.
If you suspect your Mac is the problem, there are three sensible steps, each of which may sort matters out, that you should try before you resort to paying for a repair. Our first port of call would be to reset the SMC (which stands for System Management Controller), which is pretty straightforward. Then we'll look at the NVRAM, which is also quick. But if you were planning on updating macOS anyway, you might like to try that one first instead. 1. Shut down the Mac. 2. Unplug the power cord. 3. Wait 15 seconds. 4. Re-attach the power cord. 5. Wait another 5 seconds, then turn the Mac back on.
1. Shut down the MacBook. 2. Make sure the MacBook is connected to power (ie plug the MagSafe power adapter into a power source and connect it to the Mac). Option keys and the power button at the same time, and hold them down for a few seconds. You should see the light on the power adapter change colour or blink to indicate the SMC has been reset.youtube.com 4. Release all the keys and the power button. 5. Press the power button again to turn the MacBook back on. Hold down all of these keys: Cmd, Option (Alt), P and R, and turn on the Mac. Keep holding them until you hear the Mac restart again. Your Mac may then restart normally, or you may find that a progress bar appears and fills up before the Mac starts up. Either way, you should now check to see if it's fixed the problem with the USB port. Updating your Mac to the latest version of macOS is a reasonably quick and simple process that in most situations is a good idea anyway. Updating macOS on your Mac is done using the Mac App Store. Click on Updates and install any listed for macOS; if you're not on High Sierra yet you can search for it and install as usual. Be sure to back up before updating.
Raleigh, N.C. — Testers at Consumer Reports tried several "DIY" screen repair kits to see if they actually repair cracked phone screens. For many people, paying to get their screens repaired just isn't worth it. Bree Fowler, a tech editor at Consumer Reports. 50 each using repair kits -- but she warns it takes a lot of patience and some skill to fix your own screen. First, users have to remove the screen and disconnect the home button, camera, sensors and microphone.youtube.com DIY kits also ask users to melt adhesive with a hair dryer without damaging the phone. According to Fowler, the worst part was dealing with tiny screws. After the fix, Fowler's phone worked -- but it now has a dark, shadowy image in the upper left corner of the screen. Fix your screen at your own risk! It can save you money if you're up for a challenge.
The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have glass backs that, if smashed, cost more to replace than the screen. The new plates, which bring glass to the back of Apple smartphones for the first time in four years, have been installed to enable wireless charging, but also introduce a new point of failure. The metal reinforcement of the glass back panel represents part of Apple’s durability efforts. A teardown of the iPhone 8 by repair site iFixit reveals that beneath the glass is a metal sheet that has a hole in its centre to make space for the wireless charging coil. That means a third-party repair of the glass panel is either going to be very difficult or very expensive, even compared to the screen. Phone 8, which costs £129, covers up to two damage repairs for two years.
For the screen an excess of £25 is due, but repairs to the glass on the back of are only covered under the "other damage" part of the plan. According to AppleInsider, this costs £79 each time, making the back panel more than three times as expensive as the screen. ’s out of warranty pricing of £356.44 for "other damage", according to Apple staff talking to AppleInsider. The costs are higher for the larger iPhone 8 Plus, and will probably be for the incoming iPhone X too. While smashing screens seems almost inevitable for a vast number of smartphone users, the metal backs of the previous generations of iPhones have taken that worry out of the equation.youtube.com The iPhone 8, therefore, requires a protective case more than ever. But if that protection is too thick or has metal or other reinforcement within its back, it will prevent the wireless charging from working and nullify any benefit from having the glass there in the first place.
