Category: Product Design | Page 4

Anything involving how a product was built to serve a certain need. This could include ways manufacturers make their products more feature-rich, more/less repairable, or how they make stupid decisions that cause the product to break more often.

Opinion

More PC Gaming Mice Should Follow ROG’s Repairable Switches

Computer mice, ever since the first wooden block from 1964, have always had a fundamental weakness. They have buttons, and the switches under those buttons can wear out. And yet,…

February 16, 2022

by Kevin Purdy

Tech News

iOS 15.2 Fixes iPhone 13’s Face ID Repair Trap (and Improves Its Repair Score)

We’ve tested it, and it’s true: iOS 15.2 stops Face ID from malfunctioning after you replace the screen on an iPhone 13, outside their official repair channels. We can’t really…

December 22, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

Tech News

Please Do Not Mount Your Phone to Your Motorcycle (Despite Apple’s Cool Ads)

Apple says two interesting, opposing things about the iPhone 13. One, an advertisement, says it’s the perfect phone for a dashing Spanish moto-scooter courier, guiding them to deliveries and meet-ups…

November 22, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

Tech News

Apple Says It Will Fix Face ID Failure on Third-Party Screen Repairs

Apple told The Verge today that it will release a software update to keep Face ID working after third-party and DIY screen replacements, days after iFixit’s report on the issue…

November 9, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

How Tech Works

The Chips You Find In iFixit Teardowns, Part 1: Power Management

It’s a time-consuming investigation, requiring intuition, experience, wonky Googling, esoteric apps, and spec sheet PDFs. It results in a single rainbow-colored, data-stuffed teardown step. It’s called Chip ID, and you…

August 31, 2021

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

Tech News

The Most Repairable Midrange Phones of 2020

October 9, 2020

by Michael Degnan

Tech News

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…

February 25, 2020

by Taylor Dixon

Tech News

Apple’s Mac Pro Is Accessible, But They Still Don’t Trust You

These two things can be true: Apple’s new Mac Pro is repairable, and Apple still exerts too much restrictive control over the device. At a glance, Apple delivered the kind…

January 28, 2020

by Kevin Purdy

Product Design

Phones with Frickin’ Radar Beams: Inside the Pixel 4’s Soli Sensor

If you want to feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, Google squeezed a feature into the Pixel 4 that’s just for you. The Pixel 4’s Motion Sense, and the…

November 21, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Product Design

The AirPods Pro Could Be Repairable, But Apple Doesn’t Care

We’re haunted by the memories of AirPods past. Some teardown engineers still wake up in a cold sweat dreaming about cutting open these tiny, glued-together earbuds. But Apple’s new AirPods…

November 5, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit