Cables: A Pandemic Love Story

These last two years made me appreciate some nearly forgotten things. Long dog walks, board game night, reading an actual book: all pleasant rediscoveries in rough times. Maybe the most significant re-acquaintance is something that never should have…

Galaxy S22 Ultra and Vanilla Teardown Wallpapers

Ever since our dual Samsung Galaxy S22 teardown video you’ve likely been waiting for the perfect wallpapers—well, they’re finally here! These internals are more fun and unique than they’ve been in awhile, thanks to S-pens and new vibration motors. T…

Aerospace Engineer & iFixit Alum Arielle Sampson Is Taking Repair to New Heights

We love all of our community members, but we have a special place in our hearts for our student contributors. Not everybody knows this, but plenty of guides on iFixit’s repair wiki are written by hard-working university students. They tackle a host …

Wheelchairs, Scooters, and Samsung: Repair Round-Up, Week of March 28

Welcome to our first Repair Round-Up. Each week, we will bring you the top repair news from around the world, curated for iFixit by the folks over at the Fight to Repair blog. The Big News:  Wheelchair Right to Repair Bill Rolls Ahead In Colorado (V…

Expanding our Samsung Galaxy guides

At the beginning of March we took apart the new Samsung Galaxy S22 to see what’s sweating in the latest models and compare them to their predecessors. We then immediately got to work writing repair manuals for all the new hardware. iFixit wouldn’t b…

Mac Studio Teardown-in-Progress

It’s a target-rich environment for our teardown team this week, what with the all-new Mac Studio and its counterpart, the Studio Display, plus a refreshed iPhone SE, and a new iPad Air all landing at once. We’re still digesting our findings for you,…

A bipartisan right to repair bill lands in the US Senate

Almost everyone wants the right to repair the stuff we own, and Congress is now one step closer to making it law. Today, for the first time ever, both houses of the U.S. Congress are considering an electronics Right to Repair law.  The Senate Fair R…

Computer Clan’s Krazy Ken: What’s In Your Toolbox?

This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Krazy Ken from Computer Clan, a YouTube channel for exploring new, retro, scam, and knock-off tech. iFixit is…

Steam Deck Teardown: Everything Valve Said Not to Do!

Valve’s new Steam Deck is here, and we’ve got a full video teardown of this intriguing (and impressively repairable) device. Before we put a driver to screw number one, we sent our unit over to our friends at Creative Electron, who gave us an early …

Five Strategies for Finding Out-of-Stock Parts

What to do if you can’t find a rare, discontinued, or simply hard to find part, and your favorite repair site doesn’t stock it. Try as we might, iFixit can’t sell every part for every device that needs fixing, whether due to price, demand, logistics…

Steam Deck Teardown: Coming Soon! X-Rays While You Wait

Valve has a new Steam Deck coming. The pressure’s building for us to tear this thing down, but don’t worry—we’re chugging along on disassembly. We’ll blow the whistle when our full teardown is ready, and we promise: it will be riveting. In the meant…

Dylan & Molly From Woodbrew Restore a 1994 Ford F-150 (#FixitFeb)

Oculus Quest 2 Teardown: Into the Metaverse

The text below comes from a shooting script for the video above; it may not perfectly reflect the dialogue of that video. For our first teardown of 2022, we’re looking into the past to get a glimpse of the future. Welcome to the Oculus (aka Meta) Qu…

Joe Biden Says You Should Have a Right to Repair

President Biden believes in the right to repair. He told the White House Competition Council last night that customers should have more choice in where their things are fixed, with fewer penalties, at lower cost. “From a smartphone to a tractor, you…

How to Turn a Singing Greeting Card into a Dead-Simple Circuit Tester

Jeanne had the worst kind of problem with the worst kind of device: a printer that simply wouldn’t turn on. She had tried all the tricks found on the manufacturer’s website, all the fixes on YouTube. She had double-checked her wall outlets and circu…

2022 Should Be a Landmark Year for Right to Repair

This year’s fight for the right to repair your stuff is on, and we are feeling optimistic.  In the US, we’re expecting right to repair bills in at least 25 states—bills that will cover everything from iPhones to tractors to wheelchairs, with broad b…

New Guide: How to Diagnose and Fix the C6 Error for an Instant Pot

iOS 15.2 Fixes iPhone 13’s Face ID Repair Trap (and Improves Its Repair Score)

We’ve tested it, and it’s true: iOS 15.2 stops Face ID from malfunctioning after you replace the screen on an iPhone 13, outside their official repair channels.  We can’t really say whether iOS 15.2 “fixes” this issue, or “corrects” it, or “undoes” …

iFixit Works With Microsoft to Manufacture Service Tools for Repair Techs

iFixit Pro independent repairers, Microsoft Authorized Service Providers, Microsoft Experience Centers, and Microsoft Commercial customers can now purchase Microsoft service  tools for Surface devices directly from iFixit.com. “Microsoft has taken a…

See-Through and X-Ray Series 7 Apple Watch Wallpapers: A Look at What’s Still Inside

It seems that Apple Watch perfection is attained not when there are no more components to add, but when there are no more things to remove. On the Series 7, Apple didn’t launch a radical redesign, but instead removed a diagnostic port, consolidated …

Did Removing the iPhone’s Headphone Jack Increase Lightning Port Damage?

A little over five years ago, Apple was rumored to be removing the headphone jack (a.k.a. 3.5 mm, or stereo jack) from the iPhone 7. Seeing this ominous change, one of our teardown engineers considered this and proclaimed a looming repair problem: R…