Teardowns iPod Touch Not-A-Teardown: The Headphone Jack Lives Apple released a subtly refreshed iPod Touch this week, and as usual, we tore it apart looking for undisclosed changes. Our findings wouldn’t fill a full-length teardown post, but we… May 31, 2019 by Adam O'Camb
Tools The Carbon Fiber Spudger Is the Newest Member of Our Spudger Lineup When you’re working with delicate ribbon cables or fragile clips inside a tightly packed device, the tiniest little action counts for a lot. That’s why we made our new Carbon… May 30, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Activism Expert Volunteers Needed: Green Electronics Standards We’re putting out the Bat-Signal, electronics pros. We need your help to make an important environmental standard include repair, and therefore reality. Two years ago, Repair.org released a report eviscerating… May 30, 2019 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Repair Cured My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day I slept through my alarm—okay, I slept through all five of them. When I finally woke up and realized that I was supposed to be at work five minutes ago,… May 29, 2019 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Wallpapers OnePlus 7 Pro Teardown Wallpaper The OnePlus 7 Pro Teardown is here, revealing some interesting design choices—some good, and some not so good. But what’s always good is a teardown wallpaper. Inside the OnePlus 7… May 23, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Tech News Apple Finally Addresses Flexgate with New MacBook Pro Repair Program Hot on the heels of a new MacBook Pro with even more “improvements” to the cursed keyboard, Apple has launched yet another repair program—this time for the fragile display flex… May 21, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Tech News Fourth Time’s the Charm? Apple Changes MacBook Keyboard “Material” Apple has released an updated MacBook Pro with an eight-core processor for the first time in an Apple laptop. But the more interesting change is a tweak to their butterfly… May 21, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Product Design Good Vibrations: How Apple Dominates the Touch Feedback Game In its endless quest to produce an iPhone that has even fewer physical features than the last, Apple made its iconic home button virtual in 2016, then killed it entirely… May 20, 2019 by Taylor Dixon
Gadgets This Xbox One S Doesn’t Have a Disc Drive But At Least It’s Repairable Microsoft has released a disc-less version of the Xbox One S, officially known as the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. The absence of a disc drive means there are fewer… May 14, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Right to Repair Why Right to Repair Matters: Our Testimony to the FTC You shouldn’t be denied the ability to fix your own stuff. It seems the Federal Trade Commission agrees, and it’s hosting a workshop on July 16th called Nixing the Fix:… May 13, 2019 by Whitson Gordon
