Legislation Swedish Government Wants to Give People a Tax Break for Fixing Their Stuff The Swedish government is considering legislation that would give tax breaks to people who repair stuff instead of throwing it away. According to The Guardian, the proposal—which is scheduled to… September 20, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Product Design We Dropped an iPhone 7 Into a Fish Tank—Here’s What Happened Good news for chronic phone fumblers: Apple’s newest iPhones are water resistant. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus have an IP67 rating, which means they theoretically should survive at one… September 19, 2016 by Taylor Whitney
Teardowns The Marathon Teardown Continues With an iPhone 7 We went on a teardown bender and made iFixit history by delivering you three live teardowns in one night. Last up on the teardown table: the iPhone 7. Where the… September 16, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Apple Watch Series 2: It’s the Same, But Different Last time we had an Apple Watch on our teardown table, we encountered the tiniest tri-point screw we’d ever seen. So tiny, in fact, that we had to file down… September 16, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns iPhone 7 Plus Hits the Teardown Table There’s been a lot of buzz about the waterproofiness of the 7 Plus, so we took a look at what contributes to that stellar IP67 rating. A new set of… September 16, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns iFixit Takes Tokyo: iPhone 7 Teardowns Incoming Our team of engineers will be doing back-to-back-to-back teardowns of the iPhone 7 Plus, the iPhone 7, and the Apple Watch Series 2 (if we can get our hands on… September 12, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Fixers This Guy Fixed 60 Apple Devices in 90 Days Jamie Frendo-Cumbo lives up in Kuujjuaraapik—a very small, very remote community on the southeastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada. Kuujjuaraapik is off the beaten path. Literally. As in there… September 6, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Scandal Samsung Quickly Smothers Note7 Battery Issues Hot (pun intended) on the heels of the iPhone Touch Disease, Apple rival Samsung is experiencing a press blowup of their own. In case you hadn’t heard, at least 35… September 2, 2016 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Scandal 7 Days of Apple Silence and Touch Disease Isn’t Going Away Apple Insider’s Mike Wuerthele released some compelling research last week examining the prevalence of what we’ve so lovingly labeled Touch Disease. Their analysis covers six days of service data—before and… August 30, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Product Design A Design Defect Is Breaking a Ton of iPhone 6 Pluses Microsolderer Jessa Jones can fix practically anything. But these days, she spends most of her time fixing just one thing. Because every single month, more and more iPhone 6 and… August 23, 2016 by Julia Bluff
