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Repair information and guides for the iPhone 6 that was released on September 19, 2014. Model Numbers: A1549, A1586, and A1589

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What are the different screw types? ie. Phillips vs "regular" screws?

I’ve looked through the iPhone 6 guides and QA with no clear answer. Right now I’m seperating all the screws into shoulder, standoff and standard (phillips?)

Sometimes the guides say Phillips 00, other times they just say the length of the screw.

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Phillips 00 is the size of head of the screw itself which is shaped like a plus, but keep in mind whatever they say Philips 000 is the best for unscrewing them.

For all philips screws for iPhone 6 always use the Phillips 000 screwdriver tip. The difference with all of these philips screws are just the length of the screw. The ones to be careful about are the ones near the screen connectors.

Putting a too long one in a short screw hole or over tightening a screw on the screw hole on the board will cause damage to the circuit traces under those screw holes stopping the phone from turning on or showing display.

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Thanks for the info. I am asking the question primarily because there are screw characteristics not even mentioned in the guide. I can provide pictures if that helps - there are at least 2 screws which appear to have been shaped to go into a counterbore. They're not shoulder screws and are threaded all the way except for the triangular (from the side) top area near the head of the bolt. There is also no info on screw head diameter and multiple screws of the same length have different head sizes making the process extra difficult.

In the end I may have to purchase a bad IMEI/ruined iPhone 6 and record all of this info properly because the iFixit guide leaves you with little to work off of besides total screw length (which isn't super precise anyway, very rarely are the screws exactly the length described which means I have to do some guesswork)

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