faceplate

What is the original material of the iPod 6 and 6.5 (also called 7) generation. It looks like aluminum, but the replacement I ordered ended up being plastic. It is hard to tell by the looks of the original. It looks like all replacements are plastic. If the original is aluminum, does anybody...

Yes, I will be asking Apple, but I wanted to ask here first to see if anyone else has tried this and had success. I use a white iPhone 8 for work. I would like to take the white faceplate from that 8 and replace the black faceplate of a new iPhone SE 2022. Has anybody done this? How? I tried...