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In any case, the total number of online reports of the issue appears to be small by comparison with problems such as MacBook keyboards.<br><br><br>In what would make for an unprecedented move, Apple will allegedly begin repairing iPhones with non-Apple batteries. According to internal documents obtained by Mac Rumors, your local Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers have been instructed to go ahead with repairs unrelated to an already-replaced battery. Apple did not return a request for confirmation on the circulating reports. This policy update is a major departure from the tech giant’s famously strict AppleCare warranty, which the company has been known to void on devices with third party parts. Phone owners will also be pleased to hear that if their non-Apple batteries are in need of repairs, the technicians will go ahead and replace them with proprietary Apple batteries "at their discretion," the documents state. Unlike the standard in-warranty service however, this will incur a fee for the owner. It’s also worth noting that the update only affects iPhones batteries. These [https://icharts.net/easy-ways-to-fix-iphone-system-problem/ offerings] include liquid and physical damage in recent years, which the company did not previously cover. Whether the new policy changes are part of a larger strategy to work with—rather than against—third party repair centers remains to be seen. It’s an issue that the company has been embroiled in, which has cost it lawsuits against independent repair shops.<br><br><br>Earlier this year, Apple (aapl) and Micro­soft (msft) marshaled their lobbyists in Lincoln, Neb., far from their usual corridors of political power. Their target was a proposed state law—the first of its kind, if passed—that could have set off a costly chain reaction nationwide. For decades, many electronics manufacturers have profited from a choke hold on repairs to their products. 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"In the case of Deere, it’s about controlling the repair market," says Kit Walsh, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital advocacy group. Ultimately, farmers end up paying higher prices for repairs and waste more time waiting for technicians to show up, she says.<br><br><br>Even if you don’t own a tractor, this dispute between Deere and the farmers should feel familiar. That’s because the right-to-repair issue also affects anyone who owns an iPhone, which comes with Apple’s rigid rules that forbid [https://www.imobie.com/support/how-to-fix-iphone-ipad-charging-problems.htm tinkering] with its software and making unauthorized repairs. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. While most people have little incentive to crack open their smartphones, farmers have long been able to pop the hood on their machines. 600,000, the do-it-yourself spirit is still strong—even if Deere doesn’t always agree. "We believe our dealers are in the best position to repair," says Chuck Studer, John Deere’s director of industry relations. While farmers are welcome to buy John Deere manuals and access diagnostic repair codes, which indicate what’s broken, [https://Www.Yelp.com/biz/techtronics-mac-and-iphone-repair-new-york-3 critics] say those manuals are too pricey for farmers and that only a limited number of repair codes are available. The fight has now moved to 11 other states, where lawmakers are similarly proposing right-to-repair bills. As in Nebraska, you can count on the tech industry to wage an all-out war to stop them.<br><br><br>If you’re grabbing a new Galaxy S10, you’re going to want to try your best to keep it off the repair bench. A teardown of the phone by iFixit indicates that Samsung’s newest flagship device rates lower than last year’s Galaxy S9 in terms of cost and difficulty to take apart and fix. The culminating Repairability Score for the S10 and S10E winds up at 3/10, down from the 4/10 scores iFixit assigned to the still-tricky Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S8 in years past. MORE: Galaxy S10 vs. Galaxy S10 Plus vs. Also noted in iFixit’s report is the continued general difficulty of replacing Samsung’s curved Infinity Display panels. And the bad news for the S10’s is that, new Gorilla Glass 6 be darned, it’s apparently still a little too easy to shatter. In a video by EverythingApplePro, the 6.4-inch Samsung S10 Plus was put up against the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max in a drop test. The tapered front glass of the S10 Plus was the first to crack after a waist-high drop. This is a good time to call out that smartphone insurance coverage does exist for those who anticipate they’ll find themselves in need of handset repair multiple times. 99 deductible for up to four incidents in a year.<br><br><br>Editor's note: The CBC has essentially reposted the video that they published two weeks ago, adding nothing new to the story. AppleInsider is reposting this editorial and examination of the CBC's original report, in its entirety. The story from CBC's The National starts with an undercover sting on one Toronto Apple Store, with a "common problem" where the screen wasn't working [https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/screen-replacement properly]. On inspection by one of the store's Geniuses, it was noted "there is a lot of liquid that's gotten on the inside," as water ingress indicator dots colored red confirming there to be water ingress. The indicators led the Genius to advise the customer would "need to be looking at replacing quite a few components" due to the inferred damage.<br><br><br>Rossmann claims he could've provided a customer the repair for free as a short-term solution, one he believes would last for the remaining lifetime of the computer in the majority of cases. The report asked Apple to respond to this incident and allegations on the expensive repairs. A statement from Apple claims customers are best-served by "certified experts using genuine parts," and denies systematically overestimating the cost of repairs. Repair outfit iFixit, known for its teardowns of Apple products and supply of support documents, parts, and tools was also featured in the video. Wiens goes on to show some of Apple's security practices to make it harder to repair products, including pentalobe screws and gluing batteries in place in an iPhone. It "stems from a mentality that they are the center of the universe, and nobody is doing anything with their product," according to Wiens.<br><br><br>150,000 are noted, in a bid to get the shared information taken down. The story then moves to the existence of Right to Repair legislation that would force Apple and others to [https://www.yelp.com/biz/iprotech-santa-barbara-professional-iphone-repair-santa-barbara provide manuals] and other items, to aid in fixing problems with hardware. Campaigners believe that one state agreeing to introduce Right to Repair legislation would break the dam, with other states likely to follow suit in demanding manufacturers offer the resources to third parties. Rossmann and iFixit have some legitimate points. CBC, on the other hand, does not. The implication of the CBC video is that Apple takes the equipment that it gets back from customers and tosses it in a woodchipper, or feeds it to the Liam robot. This isn't the case, though.<br><br><br>The iFixit organization is incredibly good at what they do, like partially dialing back the panic about the screen calibration software requirements for the T2[https://Www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone_4S -equipped MacBook] Pro and iMac Pro —but they do have to make money somehow. The company makes a living by selling repair parts and tools. They shouldn't be begrudged this of course, and more than one AppleInsider staffer has tools that they purchased from the vendor, obtained parts for repairs from the company, or both. Rossmann is also very talented at his work, and is incredibly successful. We have sent people emailing us about a difficult or expensive repair to his shop to get a second opinion.<br><br><br>In the last five complete fiscal years, Apple has sold approximately 1.36 billion devices. If you assume that one in a hundred of all of those devices fail from reasons other than user-induced damage like a broken screen per annum, that leaves 13.6 million failures per year. Like it or not, Apple is a consumer electronics business. For historical perspective, data collated by AppleInsider going back to nearly 2000 suggests that Apple's move in the Mac ecosystem to more sealed devices like the 2012 [https://www.yelp.com/biz/fastfix-iphone-repair-north-hollywood-4 Retina MacBook] Pro and later have cut failure percentages in half. More on that in the coming months as we continue to evaluate the data, though.<br><br><br>And, of course, the CBC video brings up the whole iPhone battery saga again, without discussing that a battery is a chemical process that depletes and loses efficiency over time. Batteries aren't eternal, and are a consumable —which Apple has always said, if perhaps not as vociferously as it should have. We've talked about how this happens, why this happens, and Apple's response at some length before. So we won't be doing it here again. Yes, Apple could have been more forthcoming with the iOS update that implemented the routines to prevent a device crash when voltage dropped below the critical threshold under load.<br><br><br>However, AppleInsider still maintains that a device that doesn't crash but runs slower is still better than one you can't rely on in a pinch. And, importantly, these devices with a properly functioning battery still move bits from register to register and perform operations just as quick as they did the day they were made. 29 battery replacement process to be carried forward in perpetuity, but it looks like it won't be. Speaking of red herrings, why the CBC said that a video of a French tax protest with nationalist overtones was a protest about repairability isn't clear. The device that the publication used had two problems —one, a series of [https://Www.yelp.com/biz/olympia-iphone-repair-olympia tripped moisture] sensors, and two, a bent pin on a connector. The sole Genius that CBC talked to followed the established procedure as set forth by Apple to examine the moisture sensors first.<br><br><br>Procedures exist in all industries for a reason. If every Apple store had Rossmann, or somebody with similar skill and experience, do all of the device examinations then the bent pin would have been found. But, there's still larger issues of time, and those 27000 [https://www.cellphonecityrepair.com/iphone-8-screen-replacement-fort-wayne/ devices] per year that come in to each shop that need detailed troubleshooting. Examinations like Rossmann performs take time. They can take a lot of time. A detailed examination and repair is more often than not a multiple man-hour process from start to finish. Which is better for the average consumer, one hour in and out of the store like can happen now, or a lengthy diagnosis, and repair? Any service center can reject any repair, for any reason —maybe you've heard us say this before.<br><br><br>A botched repair, or damage induced by users tampering with equipment is specifically cited as a denial reason by Apple. This is done mostly for accountability reasons because the technician has no good way to tell what else has been damaged by the unusual failure mode. There are good, bad, Apple-authorized, and independent repair shops, and all the permutations of those four you can dream up. The key for the user is finding a shop that gives the user the best balance between affordability, repair turn-around, and quality. The quality independent shops, like Rossmann's, will take jobs that Apple doesn't want to do, or won't do affordably —like the "undercover" CBC MacBook Pro. This is a good thing.<br><br><br>Apple's repair rules at retail, established by Apple corporate for uniformity, are there for a reason —including denials, and board-level repairs rather than component-level ones. Related to all this, regarding "right to repair" —Apple not making repairs easy by supplying parts or manuals to any given user isn't the same as blocking those repairs, which it is still not doing. And like we said, iFixit demonstrated that just last week. Apple has a vested interest in guaranteeing quality parts are available for repair. It also has a vested interest in preventing low-quality parts from entering the third-party supply chain —if perhaps it enforces those rules far too vigorously for our taste. Customers need Apple Stores to have Genius Bars.<br><br><br>They also need venues like [https://Www.Ikream.com/2019/02/fix-iphone-6s-plus-running-slow-keeps-lagging-crashing-randomly-troubleshooting-guide-26396 Rossman's] shop, and iFixit. 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