As good as this year, the iPhone could not be repaired for a long time.
The main reason to get the newly introduced iPhone 14 is hidden under the hood. At least if you believe the repair experts at iFixit. They have the new Apple smartphone opened in their repair teardown and discovered a completely new interior design. According to iFixit, this is no less than the best feature of the iPhone 14
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The new architecture is quite unexpected. Because with the other innovations, Apple has stayed away from larger experiments and renewed them on a smaller scale. During the keynote, not a single word was mentioned that pretty much everything had been turned inside out.
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Reborn as a butterfly
: iFixit loves the new interior design
One of the new features of the architecture of the iPhone 14 is the way it is opened. Because with the Apple smartphone, both the front and the back can be removed. The middle frame, on which the hardware is located, had to be completely reworked for this. iFixit becomes poetic when describing the structure and speaks of one beautiful butterfly
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Due to the detachable front, replacing the display is not a big hurdle. However, access to the components on the back is significantly more difficult.
Image source: iFixit
A detachable back, which has been standard on most smartphones for several years, turns the whole thing around: many built-in components are easier to access for repairs, but the display is difficult to access.
So far, changing the glass back of an iPhone has been particularly difficult. Difficult-to-remove adhesive and the structure of the components have previously made replacement almost impossible for private individuals.
That all changes with the iPhone 14. The butterfly design combines the advantages of a detachable front and back cover, the latter is now much easier to remove.
What also changes with the iPhone 14? The Pro models get a new notch at the top of the display. For Alex, that would almost have been reason enough to get the new iPhone.
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What does this mean for your new iPhone 14? On the one hand, defective iPhones can now be repaired much more easily, regardless of whether the internal components are located at the front or at the back. This is also helped by the fact that significantly less adhesive is used than before when assembling the new iPhones. This makes the iPhone the easiest iPhone to repair since the iPhone 7, according to iFixit.
But it’s not all sunshine and roses. Theoretically, third-party components could finally be built into the iPhone 14 more easily thanks to the new design. However, Apple ensures limited compatibility with built-in software locks.
In addition, iFixit only refers to the basic version of the iPhone 14 in the article. The experts certify that the larger Pro and Pro Max versions have a poorer result from a repair point of view, since the new design is not yet used here.
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Perhaps the butterfly architecture will then find wider use with the iPhone 15. What other reasons speak in favor of looking forward to the coming iPhone generation instead of the iPhone 14 can be found in Patrick’s article:
Apple iPhone 14: Five reasons to wait for next year’s generation
Do you like Apple’s path to better repairability? Or is the Californian manufacturer not going far enough? Have you already had good or bad experiences repairing your iPhone?
