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Here's the Massive Kit Apple Will Send to Your House So You Can Fix Your iPhone
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Possibly unpopular take but are you ***** serious. Just take it to a store. You're going to save $49 to ruin your display gasket yourself and then where will you be? Like.. are you happy now you need a whole friggin ironman suit to do this.
I unfortunately have to agree with you. Shipping is NOT cheap and that case looks big and heavy.
Next thing you know it’ll require to be updated to the latest version of caseOS to function properly and the device you want to repair won’t be compatible unless it runs the latest version of iOS.
How to spot someone who doesn’t know how to repair an iPhone but still likes to comment on the matter of proper tools and replacement parts:
Exactly, and there are two of them. Each needing a separate shipment order. Plus return.
It’s not Apple who runs this. Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see it’s a firm called “Spot”. Id like to know if Spot is a second party or something similar.
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Are you sure? If true, that’s great news. That’s the first question that occurred to me as soon as I saw it.
So, my first thought about this was: iFixit isn’t Apple, they are gonna have to make money, too. They already provide their guides and other info for free, so they have to ask for an “extra” at another place. Apple can afford to make this affordable.
However,
while thinking that it came to me that it’s very un-Apple-like to make stuff affordable and reasonably priced, or even rent out high quality gear for a week for less than 50 bucks and no shipping fee.
May it be that they are trying to push iFixit off the market with this? I don’t see much other reason for them to be competitive (which is sad, I hope I’m wrong and someone internally just made a really good case to do this the right way, time will tell)
Read the articles and visit the website. Yes, it is actually included. Crazy. I’ll only believe it when I hear reports of people actually receiving these.
These kits aren’t for everyone. If someone wants or needs to do a repair themselves these are literally the proper tools to do it.
It’d be even more environmentally unfriendly if you’d get a genuine or even aftermarket part with improper tools and you end up breaking something.
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Massive cases with massive carbon footprint sent to Joe who will spend a ton of man hours to find out he forgot to plug in the battery and has an extra screw before sealing the phone. Brilliant.
I’m an average person and I was always in favour for this. RTR stuff didn’t really get to me as I’m from Germany. I knew about it and all and am for that, too, but the reason I’m for self repair and access to genuine parts is the fact that there are no genuine or respectable service providers where I live, which is actually near a major city. There is one there but they are straight garbage. AASP too. A real shame.
Yet I want genuine parts, tools and documentation.
I agree with you about mostly everything else you said, especially your closing statement, but there are a whole lot of people that are somewhat “dependent” on such an offering.
The phone isn’t worth $1000 once used, you wouldn’t get even half of that on OfferUp, eBay or other sites/apps.
No offense to you, but despite the 5-star ratings it sounds like you went to some really crappy places. Businesses float or sink on their merit, and there are thousands of small repair shops servicing iPhones all across the US. If they were all as terrible as your experiences, they’d likely be out of business.
I just unboxed mine and wow!
My desk/room was pretty minimalistic before setting up all of this stuff needed to fix my lightning port.
My desk/room was pretty minimalistic before setting up all of this stuff needed to fix my lightning port.
There are plenty of skilled repair techs who don't work for Apple, just like there are plenty of master mechanics who don't work for the
Hail, I have replaced the screen/battery on plenty of phones for family.* The only thing I see that's special about the kit is the heat display/case removal. That's a time saver. I makes things infinitely easier and reduces the chance of you damaging the display/case from moderate to practically zero. The rest of the tools can be brought online.
Explain "baking the glass" 'cause the ones on YT that actually repair, not butcher the device ala "teardown" use proper equipment that heats it up to 80C to loosen the adhesive. That's a temperature 20 times lower than the melting point and glass is fine at temps up to 1000C. It why it's used in ovens & bakeware as it bakes what's in it, but not itself.
Also what display calibration, touch, brightness or colour? The first can't be changed, the second is a user preference & the third is done at the factory. Adjusting the picture settings is not calibration which is a default set at manufacture for those settings to work around on an even scale.
* Getting the phone wet, damp, or anywhere near water is not recommended and all damages are not supported.
** don't worry about these sticky parts that came loose. they will stay stick and hidden when you close the phone
*** FaceID not working now is a feature