Fixers How Volunteer Fixers Are Bringing This California Community Together We recently went to the Palo Alto Repair Café and spent some time with its founder Peter Skinner. Back in 2012, Peter read an article in the New York Times… March 23, 2016 by Gwendolyn Gay
Fixers All Hail the Master of Bike Repair In our ongoing YouTube series Fixers in Focus, our video team profiles very cool, local-to-us repair experts in different fields. In the past, we’ve talked to computer techs, parts experts,… March 16, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns 2 Galaxy Teardowns, 1 Week After intensively investigating Samsung’s other flagship earlier this week, we’re feeling pretty confident in our quest to tear and compare the edgier sibling. Our voyage into the belly of the… March 11, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns The REAL Samsung Galaxy S7 Teardown Is Here This year Samsung claimed to invent the phone-based heat pipe. Not only are they not the first, but this heat pipe is minuscule—and not even in the neighborhood of the… March 8, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Activism iFixit Talks Scrap Recently, our co-founder Kyle Wiens sat down with Scrap Magazine for a Q&A about our mission to teach everyone to repair everything. The interview appeared in Scrap’s November/December issue, but… February 26, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Fixers The Fixers’ Collective: Fixing Phones and Fixing the World Just yesterday, The Verge did a great profile on The Fixers' Collective in New York City. Founded in 2008, the Fixers' Collective is staffed by volunteers who help members of… February 23, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Tech News Confirmed: Apple’s Error 53 Fix Works This morning, Apple apologized and admitted that Error 53 was a mistake as opposed to a deliberate security feature: “this was designed to be a factory test and was not… February 18, 2016 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Fixing Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Valentine’s Day Kindle Repair My boyfriend Andy and I are hiking, camping, and backpacking enthusiasts. But if there's one thing we love as much as outdoor adventures—it’s literary ones. We both own Kindle Paperwhites… February 18, 2016 by Cait Emma Smith
Wallpapers iPhone 6s and 6s Plus X-Ray Wallpapers With the craziness of teardown season behind us, our technical writing crew has settled into writing guides for the latest crop of gizmos. And that means even more awesome photos… February 15, 2016 by Evan Noronha
Product Design Error 53 Investigation: We Bricked an iPhone 6s So You Don’t Have To We took a fully functional, space gray iPhone 6s and removed its original home button. In its place, we dropped in the stock home button from a different, rose gold… February 10, 2016 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit