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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the repairability desk.
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An iFixit teardown of Apple’s iPhone Duo points to a hinge support as one possible source of stress near reported inner-screen failures. The proposed mechanism is based on a 3D model and remains a hypothesis.
technology
An iFixit teardown shows that the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max use six magnetically actuated blades for their variable-aperture main cameras. The phones also combine a screwed-in battery tray and larger vapor chamber with a screen-first repair path that damaged three of four display frames opened by iFixit.
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iFixit’s teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds a highly compact six-blade variable-aperture camera, a screw-held battery tray and a larger cooling system. The phones receive a provisional 7/10 repairability score, with screen removal creating the main repair concern.