Here's the Massive Kit Apple Will Send to Your House So You Can Fix Your iPhone

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.
 
MajorFubar said:
Apple hardware devs: Let's make our products so difficult to repair that the customer needs to rent a specific kit from us to even get in them. We can make even more money that way
Tim: make it so.
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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:
 
Macative said:
But iFixit told me all I needed was one of their similarly priced kits that fits an an envelope. Surely the most disingenuous third party in the history of Apple couldn't be wrong.
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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)
 
macos9rules said:
I thought that the Self Service Repair program was supposed to be environmental friendly.
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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.
 
visualseed said:
Nearly, no average person was complaining about not being able to repair their iPhones. Except those that were virtue-signaling and jumping in on the argument being touted by a few companies with vested interests in criticizing Apple over RTR. Anybody that was that sensitive to price was already able to order just about any part they wanted from Chinese sources and an iFixit style tool kit to do it themselves. A repair shop that pays for the tools and OEM parts from Apple is not going to be that much cheaper than Apple on repairs unless they are cutting their labor costs. Likewise, an individual is only going to come out ahead using Apple parts and tools because they do the work for free.

I noticed once Apple announced their self-repair program almost everyone shut up about it and didn't press hard for details. Even the trade press was nearly silent about it until about a week ago despite it taking months to roll out. If you were a legit third-party repair business what this did was put a ceiling on your revenue potential and cap your profit margins. Sometimes the best way to ruin an activist's life is to give them what they want.
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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.
 
Gamewave said:
As someone who has repaired phones for the past 12 years (I lost count at 10,000 repairs) and now I part out phones to sell, these tools are going to be a blessing. The complexity of how hard it is to take a screen off a 12 or 13 mini will make this process so much easier. Once I saw that I could buy the separation machine on it's own I was thrilled and immediately placed an order. I look at it this way, if I am removing a screen off an iphone 13 pro max that is worth $250-300 and have the possibly of damaging it my way, then purchasing a highly precise screen that will allow me to do it without damaging the screen is 100% worth it. I have probably ruined 10 out of the 200 iphone 12 and 13 screens. Even if those screens are worth $100 each and the machine and the 3 holders I needed came out to $600 shipped, then I will easily make my money back on it by not damaging screens.

This process and tools are not for even 1% of iphone owner, they are for shops that do repairs. And for anyone that says that aftermarket parts are better than OEM, I would beg to differ. There is nothing even close to OEM and that is why it is all that I sell. Aftermarket don't perform the same and are less durable.

I am excited to test the separation machine out.
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Please post in the forums about your experience ??
 
LMAO! This is awful and will not last if they leave these kits in these massive sets. 40+ pounds and on wheels? What the hell are they thinking? This has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in years.
 
Danfango said:
This is one thing that always gets me.

Someone driving a $2000 car will pay $500 for a repair bill but will complain about spending $250 on a repair for a $1000 phone.
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The phone isn’t worth $1000 once used, you wouldn’t get even half of that on OfferUp, eBay or other sites/apps.

incoherent_1 said:
This is the correct answer. Before I was wiser, I took my broken screens in for repair about 6-7 years ago to a local shop. I found places with perfect 5 star reviews. In my defense, back then I lived hours from an Apple store.

Never. Not once did I get a screen that worked properly. They even offered “free repairs” if it malfunctioned within a few weeks. I went through 4 screens before I gave up. Every time it was something different — touch screen didn’t work in some places. Display wouldn’t turn on sometimes. Color calibration was way off. Etc.

And I was lucky. There are a hundred ways they could’ve damaged the phone permanently.

Everyone complaining here about the size of this has no clue how challenging it is to repair such a complex device or how shoddy the “repairs” of unofficial places can be.
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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.

Work-table-with-Dummy.jpg
 
Danfango said:
I doubt it. You're the sort of "looks like a duck so must be a duck" person.

I can see the pigeon through the badly applied paint...
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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 stealerships dealerships. It's just the odds of finding such a skilled tech to do iPhone repairs outside of Apple is quite rare. Once you find one though, you'd trust that tech more than some unknown Apple sub-contractor.

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.
 
Danfango said:
I said this before many many many times. When you go to the random dude down the local shop and get a "repair", he's not using proper tools or parts. Same as the guys on YT baking the glass and replacing it and showing you this shiny looking frankenphone which looks like the original but retains none of the quality or mechanical and resistive strength of the original.

When I worked in the defence sector years ago there were all sorts of jigs and things to make sure that gaskets were correctly fitted so the IP ratings of the devices could be maintained. This is the sort of stuff you need to use to actually correctly assemble stuff.

I'm glad they're being realistic about it and revealing exactly what is involved.

The local repairer here, my sister-in-law was sent to, didn't even know what a display calibration was when he replaced her display...
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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.
 
Danfango said:
Um, and this is going to hurt, but PR firm iFixit don't sell proper tools.
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* 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
 
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