iFixit Fix Your Own Drifting Joy-Con While Nintendo’s Repairs are Closed What a horrible time to have a Joy-Con curse. I refer, of course, to the curse of having the analog controller on your Nintendo Switch suddenly start drifting, at such… April 2, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Brain Candy Animal Crossing Has the Right to Repair, Why Don’t We? With everyone sheltering in place amidst an ever-changing pandemic, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a welcome escape. But it’s not just the friendly villagers (a respite from social distancing)… April 1, 2020 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
iFixit Join the #FixAtHome Challenge Feeling lonely, bored, or downright discouraged about being stuck inside? Us too. But we’re working to fix the isolation blues by repairing, making, or building something, and encouraging others to… March 31, 2020 by Dorothea Kessler - iFixit
Right to Repair Repair Is Essential, Now and Always Repair is essential. Before COVID-19 overtook the world, this was more of a rallying cry than a policy up for debate. But as governments big and small shut down more… March 31, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News 12.9” iPad Pro 2020 Teardown: What does the LiDAR scanner look like? March 28, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Fixers Android, Serial Numbers, and China: Board Repair School, Part 3 Four days into my one-week crash course in board repair and microsoldering, I still had big questions. I’d learned a lot about diagnosing boards and reading schematics, and been through… March 27, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Activism Our Medical Repair Database is Going Strong—but Still Needs Help Since we announced our project to compile repair guides for hospital ventilators last week, we’ve seen an incredible response. News outlets and community members are helping us spread the word.… March 26, 2020 by Olivia Webb
Tech News There’s Something New in the (MacBook) Air You might assume we spent the whole weekend playing Animal Crossing (and you wouldn’t be totally wrong), but we had a few other things on our plate, too: we’re amassing… March 25, 2020 by Taylor Dixon
Tech News Chip Gets Real: Board Repair School, Part 2 This is the second of a three-part series about an iFixit writer’s week at a microsoldering and board repair class. Reading part one isn’t strictly necessary, but it will give… March 20, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
How To How to Identify and Get Rid of the Gross Things on Your Phone Are you social distancing and reading this from inside your house, or performing an essential task? If you answered no, please go back inside your home and stay there before… March 19, 2020 by Olivia Webb