Chip Gets Real: Board Repair School, Part 2

This is the second of a three-part series about an iFixit writer’s week at a microsoldering and board repair class. Reading part one isn’t strictly necessary, but it will give you more insight into understanding how boards work, and the people invol…

How to Identify and Get Rid of the Gross Things on Your Phone

Are you social distancing and reading this from inside your house, or performing an essential task? If you answered no, please go back inside your home and stay there before continuing. If you answered yes, good job! You may proceed. Your phone prob…

These Galaxy S20/S20+ Wallpapers Go Way Past 11

Why would you buy Samsung’s Galaxy S20 or S20+ instead of the S20 Ultra? Perhaps you don’t need 100x Space Zoom photos, because you respect your neighbors’ privacy, and you don’t need blurry shots of a dog across the park. Or maybe you’re not feelin…

Help Us Crowdsource Repair Information for Hospital Equipment

Heroic medical teams around the world are either dealing directly with or preparing for an onslaught. The American Hospital Association forecasts predict that COVID-19 will be unprecedented. They anticipate that 4.8 million patients may be hospitali…

Vice – Maryland Suddenly Looks Like it Might Break John Deere’s Repair Monopoly

How to Get Involved with Right to Repair

Imagine being stranded at a gas station, trying to figure out why your car won’t start. Then it hits you: your windshield wiper fluid. You refilled it yourself, using unofficial fluid. You didn’t want to buy a delivery subscription or drive to the d…

Action, please! Europe’s vision for a circular economy

The European Commission just published its Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), aiming to pave Europe’s way towards a sustainable products policy and a circular economy. One of its goals is to encourage businesses to offer, and to allow consumers to…

Your Phone is More Disgusting Than You Think – 4 Ways to Clean Germs off Your Dirty Smartphone

New Survey Shows Fair Repair Could Be a Huge Environmental Win

It might not surprise you to learn that 89 percent of independent phone repair shops surveyed believe their business would be more successful if they had access to Apple and Samsung’s diagnostic and repair software. What is surprising is the size of…

Circuits, Necromancy, and Solder: Board Repair School, Part 1

There is a moment, during a tricky fix or DIY project going even halfway right, when you feel like you can see more of the world. You can see how things fit together, how a system works, at a level most people don’t know. It’s empowering and it puts…

Samsung Galaxy S20+ Teardown: In the Shadow of the Ultra

The Verge – Sonos is getting rid of the controversial Recycle Mode that needlessly bricked its older devices

Galaxy S20 Ultra Teardown: These Cameras are CRAZY!!!

Galaxy Buds+ Teardown! Still the Most Repairable Wireless Earbud?

Our Tested LCDs are a Budget Option for iPhone X, XS, and XS Max Screens

The big, bright, edge-to-edge screen on an iPhone X, XS, or XS Max is the best thing about it. Until you drop your phone and look up a replacement screen—then it’s the worst. A new original screen for your iPhone X, XS, or XS Max can be is-this-wort…

Motorola Razr vs Galaxy Z Flip: Foldable Teardown Roundup

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 and pods beat on. Since AirPods’ 2016 release, the market ha…

Our Tool Grant Winners Are Here! These Are Their Stories.

Back in October, we launched a $50,000 tool grant for Repair Cafés and other repair communities with a presence online and off. Submissions are closed (for now), but the winners are in. Your submissions were a wonderful reminder that repair is alive…

Our Partnerships

Our mission is to teach everyone to fix every thing. We disassemble the latest gadgets and recommend products that will stand the test of time. We’re fighting to create a sustainable electronics industry, and we can’t do it alone. We fund our work b…

EU Petition: Set Your Sign for Repairable Smartphones

As a member of the European Right to Repair campaign, we’re demanding more repairable and durable phones for the EU—and you can help! Shattered screens, weak batteries, worn-out changing ports: we’ve all had them. Many of us fixed them, too, or had …

U.S. PIRG – Over 175 STEM Professors Call on Manufacturers to Embrace Repair for Future of Technology