Tools Tool Abuse: All the Non-Screwing Things You Can Do with a Screwdriver Along with the hammer, the screwdriver might be the most abused tool in your toolbox. Heck, a big one can even be used as a hammer in a push. Instead… August 10, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Consumer Rights Why Once-Great Brands Are Making Their Products Worse on Purpose This will sound familiar: You have a beloved tool/pair of walking boots/kitchen appliance/etc .that you’ve owned since forever. It’s well-made, built to last, but then it breaks or eventually wears… August 7, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Opinion Apple Could Give “Obsolete” iPads New Life with This One Weird Trick This fall, Apple will cut off millions of iPads from further OS updates. This will leave owners of perfectly-good hardware with no choice but to watch it slowly wither its… August 6, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
iFixit Five Million Reasons to Make Peripheral Repair Easier: One Year of Work With Logitech A year ago, we wrote that repairability is just the beginning. This year, our work with Logitech put some numbers behind that idea. Logitech repair content on iFixit was viewed… July 30, 2026 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
How Tech Works The Secrets Behind Samsung’s Privacy Screen We tear down the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra to uncover the hardware behind its built-in OLED privacy screen. See how this anti-snooping tech works. July 27, 2026 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Tech News Why Repairability Is So Important During RAMageddon Finally some good news from the endless bleakness of RAMageddon: Microsoft has extended Windows 10 support for another year, to October 12th 2027, probably because it’s hard to force people… July 15, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Right to Repair Kindle and Switch Replaceable Batteries Show EU Laws Are (Slowly) Working Nintendo and Amazon are putting user-replaceable batteries in the Switch 2 and (possibly) the Kindle. This will not be down to altruism or respect for the buyer, but instead, thanks… July 13, 2026 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Activism John Deere Settles with the FTC in Massive Win for Farmers Today, the Federal Trade Commission and five states settled their antitrust case against John Deere. The deal does something farmers have been demanding for more than a decade, forcing Deere… July 8, 2026 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repairability iFixit Begins Developing a Repairability Scoring Standard with NSF For more than 15 years, we’ve scored products to help people understand what makes them repairable. But we’re a small team, and there are lots of products in the world;… July 2, 2026 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
