iPhone 17 Pro Max USB-C Removal

Use a hair dryer or an iOpener to heat the black plastic battery buffer until it's warm to the touch.

Use the flat end of your spudger to pry up one end of the battery buffer.

Grab the buffer with your fingers and slowly lift and remove it.

Use the point of a spudger to pry up and disconnect the two USB-C press connectors (one's underneath the other) from the bottom-left corner of the logic board.

Use a JIS 00 screwdriver to remove the two 1.8 mm‑long screws securing the left logic board buffer.

Remove the left logic board buffer and store it for reassembly.

Remove the nine screws securing the USB-C port assembly:

Six 1.5 mm‑long JIS 00 screws

One 1.3 mm‑long JIS 00 screw

Two 1.2 mm‑long Y000 screws

Use a JIS 00 screwdriver to remove the 1.2 mm‑long screw securing the USB-C port assembly to the bottom left corner of the frame.

Use a JIS 00 screwdriver to remove the two 2.8 mm‑long screws securing the USB-C port to the bottom edge of the frame.

Use the point of a spudger to pry and separate the buffer strip covering the screw in the bottom right corner of the frame.

Use a JIS 00 screwdriver to remove the 1.2 mm‑long screw securing the USB-C port assembly to the right edge of the frame.

Use a hair dryer or an iOpener to heat the entire USB-C port assembly until it's warm to the touch.

Slide the point of an opening pick between the microphone module (left of the USB-C port) and the bottom edge of the frame.

Pry gently to separate the microphone from the frame.

Slide the opening pick under the USB-C port assembly, near the center.

Slide the pick towards the right edge of the frame to separate the adhesive holding the assembly.

Grab the USB-C port assembly with your fingers and slowly pull it away from the frame to remove it.