Apple just extended its iPhone self service repair to more countries - ZDNet

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Apple has opened up its Self Service Repair programme to the UK and 7 much European countries. 

This is the archetypal enlargement extracurricular of the US since Apple launched the programme successful April, offering consumers repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools truthful they tin hole their ain iPhones. These are not disposable for the latest iPhone 14 models. 

"Customers who privation to implicit their ain repairs volition beryllium capable to execute galore of the astir communal repairs for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and Mac notebooks with Apple silicon," Apple notes successful a property release. 

The Apple parts, tools and manuals tin beryllium obtained from the third-party tally Self Service Repair Store. It's unfastened to customers successful Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. 

The Self Service Repair won't for everyone arsenic it's aimed astatine those with acquisition successful repairing physics devices. But astatine slightest this acceptable of customers bash person the prime to bash repairs connected their ain with genuine Apple parts. 

On the different hand, astir apt replacing a artillery without destroying different parts tin beryllium tricky without specialist equipment, arsenic the repairers from iFixit showed erstwhile standing the iPhone 14 the astir repairable iPhone successful years. 

The iPhone 12 Battery Bundle, for example, costs UK customers £70.94, and includes the battery, screw kit, show adhesives, and information screws. After completing repairs, the lawsuit needs to interaction the Apple parts supplies relation to initiate a strategy configuration. 

But, to get an iPhone 12's artillery replaced by Apple costs £69. So, customers person much choice, but successful that lawsuit don't prevention immoderate wealth by DIY. With AppleCare+, and if the battery's holds little than 80% of its archetypal capacity, it's free.   

Jeff Williams, Apple's main operating serviceman emphasized that Apple designs products to beryllium "durable and seldom necessitate attraction oregon repair." 

"But erstwhile a repair is needed, we privation customers to person galore options for safe, reliable, and unafraid repair. That's wherefore we're excited to motorboat Self Service Repair successful Europe, giving our customers nonstop entree to genuine Apple parts, tools, and manuals."   

Apple notes Self Service Repair is portion of its efforts to "further grow entree to repairs and summation repairability of products implicit time." Beyond giving customers nonstop access, it besides means bringing autarkic and Apple Authorized Service Providers person to customers.    

Apple says it has astir doubled fig of work locations with entree to genuine Apple parts, tools and training, including 4,000 autarkic repair providers. It besides has a planetary web of 5,000 Apple Authorized Service Providers with 100,000 progressive technicians. 

"As a result, 8 retired of 10 Apple customers are located wrong 30 minutes of an authorized work supplier crossed Europe," Apple notes.