Scandal Batterygate: A Complete History of Apple Throttling iPhones In December 2017, after more than a year of reliability issues and speculation, Apple confirmed that they were intentionally slowing iPhone performance in an attempt to prevent phone-crashing power spikes.… September 8, 2018 by Arthur Shi - iFixit
How To 3 Ways to Replace Your Bad iPhone Battery Bad iPhone battery getting you down? Learn about all the ways to test and replace your iPhone battery at iFixit.org/blog. September 7, 2018 by Elise Barsch - iFixit
Recycling How to Properly Recycle Your Old iPhone Battery Updated April 27, 2022, for internationalization. Fact: bears eat beets. Another (not so fun) fact: Worldwide, most countries don’t regulate the disposal of small, household quantities of batteries. In the… September 6, 2018 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Fixers Your Smartphone Battery, Explained When it’s your job to take devices apart and figure out how they work, you start to think about them differently. I like to think about the complex circuitry of… September 3, 2018 by Arthur Shi - iFixit
iFixit Introducing: Battery Week—like Shark Week for the Technophile Lithium-ion batteries will kill us all. Okay, maybe that’s a tad dramatic. But batteries can definitely be lethal—and they’re definitely inside a lot of the things we own: electric cars, smartphones,… September 3, 2018 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Fixers Meet the 17-Year-Old Leading Right to Repair in Michigan Two years ago, Surya Raghavendran was going for a run in his neighborhood of Ann Arbor, Michigan, when his iPhone 5c fell out of his pocket. When he picked it… August 31, 2018 by Elise Barsch - iFixit
Repair Stories Lit by Love: The Volunteers Restoring Point San Luis Lighthouse On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, some friends and I took a walk along California’s Central Coast. The quiet was broken only by cawing seagulls, crashing ocean waves, and the distant… August 27, 2018 by Kristen Gismondi - iFixit
Wallpapers Galaxy Note9 Teardown Wallpapers Note to Note lovers: We tore down the Samsung Galaxy Note9—and besides a 21% increase in battery capacity and a fancy new S Pen with remote capabilities, not much has changed… August 27, 2018 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
Gadgets The Science Behind the Magic Leap The Magic Leap One is unlike anything we’ve seen before, so it’s no wonder that it took eight years to make. It didn’t take long for us to get baffled by the… August 22, 2018 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Events We Showed Legislators That Right to Repair Still Matters at NCSL 2018 Correction April 21, 2022: We updated the independent repair technician figures below to reflect the most recent industry data. I believe in ownership: When you buy something, you own it—and… August 10, 2018 by Matt Zieminski - iFixit
