How To How to Speed Up Your Old iPhone In an age where new iPhones are priced at over four figures, people are keeping their older iPhones around for longer. But with app developers catering to faster devices, slower… August 1, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How To How to Care for Your Laptop’s Battery (So It Lasts Longer) All batteries wear out over time, but they don’t wear out at the same speed. You and someone else, given the same brand-new laptop on the same day, could have… July 30, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How To How to Speed Up an Old or Cheap Android Phone Rescuing an old or cheap Android phone, keeping it out of the waste stream, avoiding the impulse to always buy new: it feels good. Actually using that phone with an… July 25, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works How the Plumbing in Your House Works The water flowing out of your faucets comes from somewhere, and the water going down the drain must have some destination. The journey that water takes through your house is… July 24, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How Tech Works How Refrigerators Work Refrigerators crap out all the time—one of our most-popular forum posts is about a refrigerator not working properly, if that tells you anything. Here’s how a refrigerator works, so you’ll… July 15, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Tech News Your Phone Is Not Waterproof, No Matter What The Maker Says Samsung is being sued by an Australian watchdog group because, the consumer advocates claim, the phone maker is trying to have it both ways. Samsung advertisements and social media posts… July 9, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How To Five Toilet Repairs You Can Totally Handle Yourself Drip, drip, drip. That’s the sound of a running toilet keeping you awake at night. You flush the toilet. You fiddle around the tank and push and pull on the… July 1, 2019 by Kristen Gismondi - iFixit
How To How to Fix a PC That’s Beeping at a Black Screen When you boot up your computer, you’ll usually be greeted with some sort of snazzy sound or animation to show you things are starting up. But if your computer is… June 19, 2019 by Whitson Gordon
How Tech Works What All Those Dashboard Lights on Your Car Actually Mean Ever notice your car’s instrument cluster lighting up like a Christmas tree when you start it up? All those lights and symbols tell you what your car is up to… June 18, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How To How to Repair a Worn-Down Cat Scratching Post Cat scratching posts will inevitably wear down after a couple of years (or even months) from constant use. Instead of throwing out the whole thing and buying a new one,… June 18, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit