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iPhone 15 is here, and it boasts a new charge port, a titanium frame, a periscope, and a new pro-repair design. Let’s dive inside! We’re going to focus on the 15 Pro Max, with some cameos from the other phone models. Design Architecture For years, smartphones have either opened from the front–making battery swaps difficult, or from the back–making screen swaps challenging. Apple finally cracked th

Teardowns Inside Apple’s Secret iPhone 14 Redesign What if we told you this is the iPhone 14 you should buy? The best feature of the iPhone 14 is one that Apple didn’t tell you about. Forget satellite SOS and the larger camera, the headline is this: Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easier to repair. It is not at all visible from the outside, but this is a b

Our video teardown of the 2021 MacBook Pros has many more frames than this text version. You might call it the … Pro Motion version. No? Okay. It’s fall, and time for our favorite Apples: 2021 MacBook Pro teardowns! We’re excited to tuck into these fruits from a branching 2016 timeline—the MacBooks that could have been. While more ports, a durable and usable keyboard, MagSafe, and swapping the Tou

Is the new M1 iMac just a silly-sized M1 iPad, a detached-keyboard M1 MacBook, an M1 Mac Mini stretched out like pizza dough? We’ll only know by getting inside, however tough that might be. It’s time for a teardown. For more teardown and repair action, check out our YouTube channel, our Instagram, and our Twitter. Or, to get your iFixit fix right in your digital mailbox, subscribe to our newslette

The long-rumored, tiniest Apple product (that isn’t a dongle) is finally here. Welcome, AirTag! With the entire iPhone network at its back and a truly user-replaceable battery—the first in any Apple product in years—we’re interested to see how AirTags track against tried-and-tested tech. Note: If you already caught Part One of this teardown, scroll down to “Don’t get bored, we’ve got boards” for t

Like Craig Federighi before us, today we’re opening up the new M1 MacBooks and seeing the light. Except… we opened them from the other side. Oops. We’ll spill all the details below, but suffice to say, our curiosity has been rewarded in the most unintuitive way possible. While Apple touts its M1-powered Macs as nothing short of a revolution, internally, they could hardly be any more similar to the

The mini has landed! It’s iPhone 12 teardown time—again—and while the phone may be small, this teardown is bigger than ever. It’s so big, we had to split it into two parts! We even dished on all the chips and other 5G hardware differences between the US version and those sold to our friends in the EU. (Yes, we tore down both.) Meanwhile, we’re chasing a whale of a teardown week! Arm your harpoons

Second Edition? Smallish Edition? Stimulus Edition? We’re not sure what “SE” stands for this time, but it wouldn’t be an iPhone teardown without a little mystery. And this 2020 iPhone SE is certainly $400 worth of smartphone conundrum—delightfully old-school on the outside, and purportedly pretty modern on the inside. Fortunately our money is already spent, so you get to follow along for free. Let

The Mac is back and more Pro than ever, throwing away the cylindrical “trash can” design in favor of something that resembles a computer. Its appearance may harken to the original Mac Pro from 2006, but can it compare in the repairability department? We dropped six thousand dollars and one block of hard cheddar to find out. Let’s tear it down. Yearning for more teardowns? Follow us on Instagram, T

A beloved old feature returns to the MacBook Pro, and it starts with M-a-g. If you guessed MagSafe, we have disappointing news, but if you said “Magic Keyboard,” we have the teardown for you. It’s the all-new, butterfly-less, 16-inch MacBook Pro, and we’re here to turn it inside-out—from the fancy new thermals to those thumping loud speakers. Be sure to read our blog post for our initial take, and

Your long butterfly keyboard nightmare is over. The new Magic Keyboard in the 16-inch MacBook Pro has an almost identical look and feel to much older Apple devices—so close, in fact, that you can swap in old Magic Keyboard keycaps. It feels like a do-over, a throwback, almost an apology. Customers, press, and those of us who care about device longevity have scored a win. These new keys, which are

Apple further expands their collection of professional equipment, this time with a set of AirPods Pro. Apple’s line of wireless buds certainly has a fraught history on the teardown table—will its “pro” iteration be any different? We’re hoping Apple brought that repairability score up a little (it’s never too late to change), but only a teardown will tell. Looking for more? Check out our YouTube ch

Apple’s newest MacBook Pro is its fastest yet, featuring an optional eight-core processor—a first in a MacBook—and a mysterious new keyboard material. Since it’s unlikely that Apple’s going to expound on this ‘material,’ and we’re never satisfied with an unsolved mystery, it’s time once again to take a closer look at the infamous butterfly keyboard. Put on your detective hat and join us for a tear

The Pixel 3a breaks all the rules—a polycarbonate back panel, no wireless charging, visible bezels, a headphone jack, and a top-notch camera in a budget phone. Is there a method to Google’s madness? A teardown might be the only way to find out! Looking to get every groundbreaking teardown update? Check out our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. For teardowns delivered straight to your inbox, subscri

Teardown Update: After Samsung tried to make our initial teardown disappear from the internet five months ago, we’re back with a teardown of the final, really-for-real this time retail Galaxy Fold. This model incorporates Samsung’s late-breaking hardware revisions for improved durability—but is it enough, or is the design fatally flawed? Join us for Galaxy Fold Teardown, Part Two: The Re-Unfoldeni

The future is now! Apple’s once-neglected Mac mini is coming in hot with a brand new, cutting edge, long awaited … processor upgrade? And a couple more ports? There has to be more, and we know how to find it—time for a teardown! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to keep up with the latest teardown updates. Subscribe to our newsletter for teardowns delivered straight to your inbox.

After years of neglect, Apple has finally updated the widely-beloved MacBook Air. Does this new lightweight have what it takes to keep up with ultraportables of 2018? Or is it just full of hot air? Let’s open it up and find out. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to keep up with all the latest teardowns. Subscribe to our newsletter to have teardowns delivered right to your inbox.

Learn how to upgrade or replace the memory in your 2018 Mac mini with this RAM replacement guide. The mini can support up to 64 GB of RAM, using any combination of 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB DDR4-2666 SODIMM RAM modules.

This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. Erik Wooldridge is a Systems Specialist at Morris Hospital near Chicago. During the installation of a new GE Healthcare MRI machine, he started getting calls that cell phones weren’t working. Then, some Apple Watches started glitching. “My immediate thought was that the MRI must have emitted some sort of EMP, in which case we could be in a lo

Last year’s iPhone X had a weird name and the most advanced internals we’d ever seen in a teardown. This year Apple turns it up to eleven with the bafflingly-named iPhone XS and XS Max. In a teardown first, we’re taking apart both phones simultaneously—so grab ahold of your Roman numerals and let’s get started. Huge thanks to our friends at Circuitwise for hosting us in Sydney, Australia, where iP

Microsoft just revealed a 2-in-1 for those on the move—those wanting a Surface with a little less pro, and a little more go. This Surface might have a lot going for it, but there’s only one thing we care about: can you service it on the go, or will it be stopped in its tracks by tired batteries and shattered screens? Only one way to find out—ready, set, teardown! You never know when the next teard

Apple has been quietly improving their pro-level laptops, making them … quieter. Turns out they’ve improved the clacky keyboards more than they’ve let on—which leaves us wondering, what else is new in here? All we need is a teardown team and several thousand US greenbacks to find out. Grab your best tinkering tools and let’s dig in—we’re tearing down the 13” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 2018 editio

BREAKING (July 13, 2018): Here’s an inflammatory take for you: Apple’s new quieter keyboard is actually a silent scheme to fix their keyboard reliability issues. We’re in the middle of tearing down the newest MacBook Pro, but we’re too excited to hold this particular bit of news back: Apple has cocooned their butterfly switches in a thin, silicone barrier. The 2018 MacBook Pro features a thin rubb