This year, Apple has been receiving a surprising amount of praise for the repairability of its new iPhones: The company received at least 7 out of 10 in the “Repair Score” from repair portal iFixIt. This applies to both the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro. Only the standard models offer a special feature: their batteries sit in the housing with a special adhesive that can be removed by applying voltage. According to a leaker, Apple is now planning to expand the iPhone 17 technology to all devices.
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Four adhesive elements leaked
The relevant components must already be in pre-production: A picture on the four adhesive elementsWhich according to @MajinBuOfficial should account for four 2025 iPhones. In a blog entry he further wrote that Apple is now using the technology For all four models of iPhone 17 Plan. The leaker correctly predicted the new titanium exclusive color “Desert Sand” for the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max, but was also wrong in the past.
Even with the iPhone 17’s adhesive elements, applying a low electrical voltage should be enough to loosen the adhesive – “without much effort”. In fact, the battery then practically falls away to the repairman, which is a relief after many years of hard gluing and the use of pull tabs that have to be removed with great difficulty.
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The iPhone 17 will likely be released in September 2025. Apple is reportedly again planning four variants, including an “iPhone 17 Air” with a notably thinner housing instead of the iPhone 17 Plus. The fact that it can also be repaired relatively easily would be appreciated.
iFixIt also now has suitable hardware available for releasing the battery with a conventional USB-C power supply – but otherwise a 9-volt block battery with an alligator clip is sufficient. Of course, there’s been little change in the still-long process of unlocking an iPhone, but at least Apple now offers detailed repair instructions iPhone 16 is also very close to release this year. Of course, Apple also has a battery solution Own instructions on his website Ready.
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