E-Waste Apple Hamstrings Audio Software for Everything But AirPods When it comes to repair, we hate AirPods. They’ve scored 0 out of 10 every time we’ve taken them apart. To get inside, you have to cut open the plastic… November 7, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Wants You to Follow a Crazy Procedure for Battery Replacement on the M5 MacBook Pro Apple’s new M5-equipped MacBook Pro looks, feels, and performs almost exactly like last year’s model. Blink and you might miss the upgrade. Blink and you might also miss the very… October 24, 2025 by Carsten Frauenheim - iFixit
Teardowns AirPods Pro 3 Teardown: Still a Tragedy AirPods were a major star of Apple’s product rollout this year, with fun new live translation features and heart rate monitoring. So we had to dig into the AirPods Pro… October 1, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Still Stands Up to Repairs To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts. But the iPhone Air proves otherwise. Apple… September 20, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repairability When Coding Robots Break, Can You Fix Them? If you’ve ever watched a classroom full of 8-year-olds try to reprogram a robot that’s just faceplanted into a wall, you know two things: (1) kids are fearless experimenters, and… September 19, 2025 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit
Repairability About That iPhone Air Battery… Apple’s new iPhone Air is full of compromises, but surprisingly for such a thin device, the battery isn’t quite as bad as we’d feared. This could be down to a… September 16, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Repairability Designing a Repair Ecosystem: A Guide for OEMs Repairability starts with thoughtful design. Take the Fairphone 5 for example. Its battery can be removed in just four steps, thanks to a back panel secured with clips instead of… July 7, 2025 by Spencer Pennington - iFixit
Teardowns Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable Remember when you could pop open a phone, swap the battery, and keep going? Fairphone remembers. Their latest release, the Fairphone 6, feels like a nostalgic nod to sanity, with… July 3, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design HMD Fusion: The Smartphone That Grows with You The HMD Fusion is a technological chameleon. You can use Smart Outfits to dress it up as a video game console, barcode scanner, or a rugged IP68-rated device. Or, you… June 16, 2025 by Spencer Pennington - iFixit
Repairability Apple Finally Admits That The iPad Is A Beast To Repair Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference is going on now. But we’re still reeling from some other recent Apple news: Apple has finally completed its multi-year plan to provide parts and… June 9, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
