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Batterygate: A Complete History of Apple Throttling iPhones

In December 2017, after more than a year of reliability issues and speculation, Apple confirmed that they were intentionally slowing iPhone performance in an attempt to prevent phone-crashing power spikes.…

September 8, 2018

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

How To

3 Ways to Replace Your Bad iPhone Battery

Bad iPhone battery getting you down? Learn about all the ways to test and replace your iPhone battery at iFixit.org/blog.

September 7, 2018

by Elise Barsch - iFixit

Recycling

How to Properly Recycle Your Old iPhone Battery

Updated April 27, 2022, for internationalization. Fact: bears eat beets. Another (not so fun) fact: Worldwide, most countries don’t regulate the disposal of small, household quantities of batteries. In the…

September 6, 2018

by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit

Fixers

Your Smartphone Battery, Explained

When it’s your job to take devices apart and figure out how they work, you start to think about them differently. I like to think about the complex circuitry of…

September 3, 2018

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

iFixit

Introducing: Battery Week—like Shark Week for the Technophile

Lithium-ion batteries will kill us all. Okay, maybe that’s a tad dramatic. But batteries can definitely be lethal—and they’re definitely inside a lot of the things we own: electric cars, smartphones,…

September 3, 2018

by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit

Fixers

Meet the 17-Year-Old Leading Right to Repair in Michigan

Two years ago, Surya Raghavendran was going for a run in his neighborhood of Ann Arbor, Michigan, when his iPhone 5c fell out of his pocket. When he picked it…

August 31, 2018

by Elise Barsch - iFixit

Repair Stories

Lit by Love: The Volunteers Restoring Point San Luis Lighthouse

On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, some friends and I took a walk along California’s Central Coast. The quiet was broken only by cawing seagulls, crashing ocean waves, and the distant…

August 27, 2018

by Kristen Gismondi - iFixit

Wallpapers

Galaxy Note9 Teardown Wallpapers

Note to Note lovers: We tore down the Samsung Galaxy Note9—and besides a 21% increase in battery capacity and a fancy new S Pen with remote capabilities, not much has changed…

August 27, 2018

by Kelsea Weber - iFixit

Gadgets

The Science Behind the Magic Leap

The Magic Leap One is unlike anything we’ve seen before, so it’s no wonder that it took eight years to make. It didn’t take long for us to get baffled by the…

August 22, 2018

by Sam Goldheart - iFixit

Events

We Showed Legislators That Right to Repair Still Matters at NCSL 2018

Correction April 21, 2022: We updated the independent repair technician figures below to reflect the most recent industry data. I believe in ownership: When you buy something, you own it—and…

August 10, 2018

by Matt Zieminski - iFixit

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