How To How to Fix Christmas Lights Sometime in the near future you’ll venture into your dusty attic or musty garage and pull out a miserably tangled set of Christmas lights. Millions will throw out their broken… November 16, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How To What You Should Know Before You Fix: iPhones If you want to fix an iPhone, we’ve almost certainly got a guide for you at iFixit. You can swap the battery in an iPhone 3GS, the front camera on… November 10, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works Ask iFixit: What Is Stretch Release Adhesive (and Why Do We Love It)? There is a crucial point in every iFixit phone or tablet teardown where the future is about to take a drastic turn. It’s like right before the river card in… October 28, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works How LiDAR Works, and Why It’s in the iPhone 12 Pro How will Apple get people to upgrade to an iPhone 12, now that most of us are home all day and don’t need a portable powerhouse? The world’s most valuable… October 22, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How To What You Should Know Before You Fix: Non-Samsung, Non-Pixel Android Phones We’ve previously shared our tips on fixing two prominent brands of Android phones, Samsung and Google’s Pixel line. But there are many, many more Android phones out there. The huge… October 19, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How To How to Get More Control Over Your iPhone and iPad Backups Apple phones and tablets are generally easy to back up. Once set up, they connect themselves to Apple’s servers every night, and back themselves up—if you have enough space in… October 14, 2020 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Skills How to Survive Without an IT Department We’ve all had to learn a lot of new skills lately. Some of us have become unpaid IT consultants, with multiple (sometimes fussy) clients, a hodgepodge of devices and systems,… October 8, 2020 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
How To What You Should Know Before You Fix: Google Pixel Phones Pixel phones are an odd duck in the smartphone world. They’re not just one phone, but a series of devices, made by different manufacturers, at least until Google bought HTC’s… October 1, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Hacks Our Readers’ Best Tips for Organizing Screws During a Repair We sell what we consider an almost perfect tool for holding little screws and metal parts during a repair: the FixMat, complete with an erasable pen to label each little… September 30, 2020 by Kevin Purdy