Category: Product Design | Page 2

Anything involving how a product was built to serve a certain need. This could include ways manufacturers make their products more feature-rich, more/less repairable, or how they make stupid decisions that cause the product to break more often.

Tech News

Apple Says It Will Fix Face ID Failure on Third-Party Screen Repairs

Apple told The Verge today that it will release a software update to keep Face ID working after third-party and DIY screen replacements, days after iFixit’s report on the issue…

November 9, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

How Tech Works

The Chips You Find In iFixit Teardowns, Part 1: Power Management

It’s a time-consuming investigation, requiring intuition, experience, wonky Googling, esoteric apps, and spec sheet PDFs. It results in a single rainbow-colored, data-stuffed teardown step. It’s called Chip ID, and you…

August 31, 2021

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

Tech News

The Most Repairable Midrange Phones of 2020

October 9, 2020

by Michael Degnan

Tech News

Are All Wireless Earbuds As Evil As AirPods?

Here at iFixit, we’re constantly dunking on Apple’s AirPods. And we’re not alone! Many others have come to realize that they’re a repairability and environmental disaster. And yet the buds…

February 25, 2020

by Taylor Dixon

Tech News

Apple’s Mac Pro Is Accessible, But They Still Don’t Trust You

These two things can be true: Apple’s new Mac Pro is repairable, and Apple still exerts too much restrictive control over the device. At a glance, Apple delivered the kind…

January 28, 2020

by Kevin Purdy

Product Design

Phones with Frickin’ Radar Beams: Inside the Pixel 4’s Soli Sensor

If you want to feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, Google squeezed a feature into the Pixel 4 that’s just for you. The Pixel 4’s Motion Sense, and the…

November 21, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Product Design

The AirPods Pro Could Be Repairable, But Apple Doesn’t Care

We’re haunted by the memories of AirPods past. Some teardown engineers still wake up in a cold sweat dreaming about cutting open these tiny, glued-together earbuds. But Apple’s new AirPods…

November 5, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Product Design

Confirmed: Apple Developed Exclusive Tech for the U1 Ultra Wideband Radio

Since the iPhone 11 announcement, theories have abounded that Apple’s new U1 wireless chip is actually a Decawave Ultra Wideband DW1000. But a teardown of both Decawave and Apple’s U1…

October 10, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Product Design

The 40mm Apple Watch Series 5 Has a Radical New Battery Design

This week we tore down the 44mm Apple Watch Series 5 and discovered only a handful of minor differences from last year’s Series 4. However, we eventually got our hands…

September 26, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Product Design

Which iPhone 11 Parts Are Replaceable?

While you were busy reading our iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone 11 teardowns, some of us were busy behind the scenes swapping parts to see just how repair-friendly (or…

September 23, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit