The two most common smartphone fixes are replacing the battery and screen, so the new design gives repairers easier access to those parts.
However, iFixit gives the new phones a poor repairability score: Four out of 10. That's in part because Apple uses software to lock parts to specific devices, making independent fixes more difficult or near-impossible.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, which went on sale Friday, have a new design that attaches the phone's main parts to an aluminum frame, which is bonded to the titanium casing that users touch on the outside, iFixit found. Since the two most common smartphone fixes are replacing the battery and screen, the new design gives repairers easier access to those parts.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
Apple highlighted the change in its announcement this month and also dropped the price to swap a cracked back glass plate to $149 or $169, versus $499 or $549 on last year's Pro models. Screen repairs remain the same price, $329 or $379, depending on display size. Last year's mainstream model of the iPhone 14 — not the pricier Pro — also had a design featuring removable back glass.
iFixit's analysis also highlighted that Apple's iPhones are using a Qualcomm X70 modem to connect to cellular carriers, after QualcommHowever, iFixit, a strong advocate for the right-to-repair movement, said that many iPhone parts, including the phone's Face ID sensor, Lidar camera and wireless charging coil, are not replaceable without using an official Apple configuration tool to authenticate them.
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