comparing the two phones on Apple everything in the display is the same besides the iPhone 8 screen using 3D Touch and the new SE having haptic touch, also Apples screen repair price for the iPhone 8 (UK) is £152.44 and new SE £136.44 it’s a shame but suppose it’s a cost saving measure. If anything probably will work but not sure how the above would work if swapped around, Hope this helped
Yep! A iPhone 8 screen works perfectly when installed in a iPhone SE 2020, and vice versa. Additionally, after a screen swap, you can follow the same procedure using a iCopy to transfer the serial number from the old screen to restore TrueTone functionality just like with the iPhone 8.
So, the only parts in the iPhone SE 2020 that are NOT compatible with the iPhone 8 are:
the rear camera. It looks the same, and plugs in fine, but it just doesn’t work.
the battery. The battery in the iPhone SE 2020 is the same form-factor at the iPhone 8, but the connector is the same as the battery used in the iPhone 11.
As soon as parts are available for the iPhone SE 2020, I’m tempted to buy a logic board, battery, and camera and install them in my old iPhone 8 to make a sort of “franken-phone”.
That’s actually wrong, it was reported initially that the camera is not interchangeable due to a YouTube video that came out a few weeks ago. It was actually lazy reporting because the YouTube video showed an iPhone 8 motherboard being put into an iPhone SE and then subsequently, the native cameras failed to work on the SE. But you can swap the camera module from an iPhone 8 or SE into the other and it will work. iFixit and another source have proven that an iPhone 8 camera will work in the new SE and the SE camera will work in the 8. There is still some question about if the iPhone SE sensor is truly the same as the 8, the modules are the same size so it’s assumed to be the same sensor but I don’t know if anyone outside of Apple really truly knows.
That video doesn’t even show the swapping of camera modules, what it actually shows is putting an iPhone 8 screen on an SE phone body and putting an iPhone 8 logic board inside of an SE body and that causes the cameras on the SE not to work. But just swapping the camera module from one to the other DOES work.
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comparing the two phones on Apple everything in the display is the same besides the iPhone 8 screen using 3D Touch and the new SE having haptic touch, also Apples screen repair price for the iPhone 8 (UK) is £152.44 and new SE £136.44 it’s a shame but suppose it’s a cost saving measure. If anything probably will work but not sure how the above would work if swapped around, Hope this helped
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