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iPhone XS and XS Max Teardown

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Our synchronized two-phone teardown has come to a tidy conclusion.

We suspect this marks the beginning of a new era in iPhone battery design—the carefully contoured single-cell concept is limited to the smaller XS for now, but we expect to see it again soon. iPhone XR, perhaps?

Huge thanks again to our gracious hosts at Circuitwise in Sydney, Australia, and to our best buds over at Creative Electron for their stunning X-ray photography.

Oh, and one more thing: it's time to assign an overall repairability score.

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