Right about now, Apple's earning a pat on the back for using Phillips screws over the display cable bracket—unlike those pesky tri-point screws we uncovered in the iPhone 7 (Plus).

They also connected the display cable near the Lightning port instead of dead center, making repairs slightly less awkward.

But it does look as though we'll have to remove another heavily glued-in logic board. Let's cross our fingers for battery pull tabs!

While planning our attack, we flip the switch on our X-Ray vision (courtesy of our friends at Creative Electron) to peek behind all those black boxes.