Not all iPhone 14 Smartphones Are Alike - Design News

Two caller teardown videos uncover that the repairability improvements made to the caller iPhone 14 and 14 Plus don’t transportation implicit to the higher-end Pro and Max versions.

Apple recently released its caller enactment of iPhone 14 smartphones, and portion the devices tout a fig of caller features, 1 of the astir important advantages was thing the electronics shaper didn’t openly discuss: repairability. An iFixit teardown video released aft the phones’ instauration stated that the measurement iPhone 14 and 14 Plus models were substantially redesigned from the predecessor 13 smartphone models, with the effect being easier entree to cardinal components specified arsenic the artillery and display.

While 1 mightiness deliberation that the aforesaid plan improvements were made to the costlier iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max smartphones, 2 caller videos look to disprove that assumption.

In 1 video, Hugh Jeffreys did a teardown connected 2 iPhone 14 Pros, trying to trial however receptive the devices were to third-party repair by swapping retired immoderate of the phone’s interior parts. Jeffreys encountered issues trying to region the phone’s battery, with immoderate of the adhesive breaking off. When Jeffreys tried to swap retired the displays and different interior parts betwixt the 2 Pros, helium received each types of mistake messages and encountered disabling of immoderate cardinal telephone functions, specified arsenic Face ID and car brightness. These issues emerged contempt Apple itself pushing its Self-Service Repair program, the reviewer says.

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Apple’s flagship iPhone 14 Pro Max didn’t fare overmuch better. In this iFixit video, the reviewer did not execute the thorough parts swapping of Jeffreys iPhone 14 Pro video. However, the reviewer noted that this top-of-the-line phone retained the plan of the iPhone 13, which wasn’t precisely a joyousness to repair. The reviewer rated the phone’s repairability a middling 6 retired of a imaginable 10.

You tin ticker the video here.

Spencer Chin is simply a Senior Editor for Design News covering the electronics beat. He has galore years of experience covering developments successful components, semiconductors, subsystems, power, and different facets of electronics from some a business/supply-chain and exertion perspective. He tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected]