iPhone 7 Speaker Assembly Replacement

Introduction

Prereq for removing the speaker or wi-fi diversity antenna.

What you need

Step 1 Speaker Assembly

iPhone 7 Speaker Assembly Replacement, Speaker Assembly: step 1, image 1 of 1

Remove the Phillips screw securing the Wi-Fi diversity antenna to the rear case:
One 3.2 mm screw

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Step 2

Remove the following three Phillips screws securing the speaker to the rear case:
Two 1.3 mm screws
One 2.0 mm screw

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Step 3

iPhone 7 Speaker Assembly Replacement: step 3, image 3 of 3

Use the point of a spudger to lift the two antenna cable connectors up off of the sockets on the logic board.

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Hey may i ask…what is the use of both of the antenna cables?i just opened my iphone 7 plus and i found both of the cables are broken.if both of the cables are broken,what does it effect on my iphone?

Mohd Wazirul - Jan 8, 2018 Reply

Speaker and antenna?

Keah Smith - Aug 13, 2019 Reply

I'm missing the black thing from my antenna and I have no signal, could this be the reason why? Is the black thing insulation?

Keah Smith - Aug 13, 2019 Reply

These doodads are a pain to route and reconnect. I probably spent 15 minutes just on this part of reassembly. One of them is connected to the new part. It won’t have the soft grommet on top.

Ray Bieze - Nov 18, 2019 Reply

One of these came away from its base. The one nearest the battery.

When I reassemble it I’m thinking just a bit of glue at the side once re attached to base, so lomg as it touches the base contacts?

Any comments?

ANDREW - Jan 29, 2020 Reply

I am having the worst time imaginable trying to reconnect the antenna cable coming from the lightening connector assembly to the logic board. It’s barely long enough and will not snap into place. There’s a minature gold pin sticking up from a circular gold ring on the logic board and I must have spent an hour on this one step. The antenna end has the female end. Everything else went well. The antenna connector from the old lightening assembly will connect relatively quickly. I’m beginning to think the new antenna connector female end might be defective. I’m ready to cut the black antenna wire and try to solder in a longer piece using the old connector assembly. Any ideas? HELP !!!

David Sandrof - Sep 9, 2020 Reply

These can be tricky to reconnect. I found the best way is to hold the connector with tweezers and use the point of a spudger on top of the connector in the other hand. Slowly moving the connector with the tweezers while applying gentle pressure with the spudger, you will eventually feel the connector and its seat line up and you can snap into place. Don’t force it, when it is lined up it is easy so you have to patiently work on aligning it.

David Ege - Dec 5, 2020 Reply

please say which antenna is which, impossible to know now

Mitchell Thompson - Jul 28, 2021 Reply

Tip that helped me: remove the standoff screw next to the clip before derouting (or, upon reassembly, rerouting) the cables. This gives you a lot more space to work with! (Note: I only did this on reassembly, so I don’t know if there are any gotchas on disassembly.)

T Murrills - Dec 1, 2021 Reply

Please pay close attention to witch one goes where or take a picture bad mistake made.

michael - Jan 5, 2022 Reply

Step 4

Use tweezers to derout the antenna cables from their bracket on the logic board.

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Step 5

Use tweezers to remove the antenna cables from the clip on the speaker.
Make sure to grasp the cable near the clip in order to avoid damaging the cable.

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They pull off to the side.

Ark - Dec 27, 2018 Reply

This was an oddly challenging step, lifting the speaker slightly from the top end allowed me to slide the tips of one side of the tweezers in between the cable and the speaker, prying it out rather than grabbing and pulling which feels dangerous.

Jesse de Vries - May 21, 2020

They break very easily

Josh Brito - Dec 20, 2019 Reply

difficile a retirer. Les 2 tables sont clipsés sur le haut parleur. Il m’a bien fallu 10 - 15 minutes pour arriver a les retirer. Aucune astuce a vous donner, a part de la persévérance.

Guigui - Apr 27, 2020 Reply

One cable seems to stay attached to the speaker. Don’t try to pry it off the speaker! This is shown in the video but not in these photos.

Cynthia Lamb - Mar 1, 2021 Reply

Step 6

Use the tip of a spudger to slide the speaker assembly towards the logic board and off of the rear case.

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Step 7

Remove the speaker.

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Reassembly tip: after aligning the speaker with the bottom edge, instead of lowering the speaker into place, keep the speaker raised slightly and push the cables back into the clip (which were removed in step 28) with the flat end of a spudger. In doing so, though, make sure that the cable from the lightning connector piece remains above the flat metal piece protruding out the left side of the speaker.

T Murrills - Dec 1, 2021 Reply