Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off.

Remove the two 3.6 mm Pentalobe screws next to the Lightning connector.

Press a suction cup onto the screen, just above the home button.

Be sure the cup is completely on the screen to get a tight seal.

Make sure the suction cup is firmly attached to the front panel assembly.

While holding the iPhone down with one hand, pull up on the suction cup to slightly separate the front panel assembly from the rear case.

Take your time and apply firm, constant force. The display assembly is a much tighter fit than most devices.

With a plastic opening tool, begin to gently pry the rear case down, away from the display assembly, while you pull up with the suction cup.

There are several clips attaching the front panel assembly to the rear case, so you may need to use a combination of the suction cup and plastic opening tool to free the front panel assembly.

Continue to pry up around the sides of the front panel assembly, detaching the clips along the left and right side.

Once the clips have been released on the bottom and sides of the front panel assembly, pull the bottom of the assembly away from the rear case.

Do not try to completely remove the front panel assembly from the rear case, as there are several ribbon cables still attached at the top of the iPhone.

Lift and rotate the front panel assembly up to about 90 degrees from the rear case.

Remove the following screws securing the front panel assembly cable bracket to the logic board:

• Two 1.2 mm Phillips screws
• One 1.6 mm Phillips screw

Remove the front panel assembly cable bracket from the logic board.

Use a plastic opening tool to disconnect the three front panel assembly cables:

• Front-facing camera and sensor cable
• Digitizer cable
• LCD cable

  • When reassembling your phone, The LCD cable may pop off the connector. This can cause white lines, or nothing at all to appear when powering your phone back on. If that happens, simply reconnect the cable and power cycle your phone. The best was to power cycle your phone is to disconnect and reconnect the battery.

Remove the front panel assembly from the rear case.

Remove the following two screws securing the metal battery connector bracket to the logic board:

• One 1.8 mm Phillips screw
• One 1.6 mm Phillips screw

Remove the metal battery connector bracket from the iPhone.

Use a plastic opening tool to gently pry the battery connector up from its socket on the logic board.

Be very careful to only pry up on the battery connector and not the socket on the logic board. If you pry up on the logic board socket, you may break the connector entirely.

Insert the edge of a plastic opening tool between the battery and the rear case near the bottom the iPhone.

Run the plastic opening tool along the right edge of the battery and pry up at several points to completely separate it from the adhesive securing it to the rear case.

Do not pry up too hard, as this may permanently deform or puncture the battery.

If necessary, use the exposed clear plastic pull tab to peel the battery off the adhesive securing it to the iPhone.

Remove the battery.

Use the tip of a spudger to pry the cellular data antenna cable connector up from its socket on the logic board, just above the speaker enclosure.

Remove the following two screws securing the top logic board bracket to the rear case:

• One 1.5 mm Phillips screw
• One 2.3 mm Phillips screw

Remove the bracket from the top of the logic board.

Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the following three cables from the logic board:

• Upper interconnect cable
• Button assembly cable
• Lower interconnect cable

Remove the two 1.3 mm Phillips screws from the inner top of the rear case.

Remove the single 1.2 mm Phillips screw remaining in the mid-section logic board bracket.

Remove the mid-section bracket from the logic board.

Depress the SIM card release on the right side of the iPhone with a SIM card eject tool or a bent paperclip to eject the SIM card tray.

Remove the SIM card tray from the iPhone.

Remove the following screws securing the logic board to the rear case:

• Two 2.3 mm Phillips screws
• Three 2.7 mm standoff screws

  • These screws have a Phillips bit pattern, but we found the best removal tool to be a 2.5 mm flathead driver.

Rotate the logic board assembly toward the battery side of the rear case.

Do not attempt to completely remove the logic board assembly from the rear case, yet; there is still one cable connected to the underside of the logic board.

Use the tip of a spudger to pry the Wi-Fi antenna cable connector up from its socket on the underside of the logic board.

Remove the logic board assembly from the rear case.

While your logic board is out of your phone, keep it on a grounded anti-static mat to prevent any damage to the circuitry.

Use the tip of a spudger to remove the rubber bumper from below the power button.

Remove the single 1.9 mm Phillips screw securing the power button bracket to the inner top portion of the rear case.

Remove the following screws from the metal bracket between the rear facing flash and camera windows:

• One 2.9 mm standoff screw

  • This screw has a Phillips bit pattern, but we found the best removal tool to use is a 2.5 mm flathead driver.
• One 1.6 mm Phillips screw

Remove the metal power button bracket.

Use the tip of a spudger to flip the metal bracket holding the power switch away from the top of the rear case.

Press the power button into the rear case from the outside of the phone with the tip of a spudger.

Remove the power button.