iPhone 14 Pro Programmed To Reject Repair - Teardown and Repair Assessment
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as evidence of Apple's parts pairing and in right-to-repair discussions.
What it is
Hugh Jeffreys tests the iPhone 14 Pro and finds that swapping genuine parts between phones disables features, concluding that third-party repair is not really viable despite Apple's Self Service Repair program.
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What Hacker News said
Cites SayMyName · 2022-09 · on “Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair”
Odd article considering everything is still software locked to the phone. Sure it's easier to repair, but if you get your parts from anywhere else than apple's program directly, a lot of features will stop working. Hugh Jeffreys made a video interchanging parts on two brand new iphone's and it disabled a lot of things including auto-brightness. [this video]
Cites whyoh · 2022-10 · on “iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%”
>And best part: phone can be serviced on the cheap in almost any mall in the world. Everyone got spare screens, batteries,cases sell in dollar store. Swapping parts like that on an iPhone doesn't work (anymore): [this video]
Cites dns_snek · 2022-12 · on “Non-Replaceable Battery? Not If This Proposed EU Law Passes”
> Just take it to any repair shop. Device manufacturers see that as a bug, not a feature. They are starting to pair genuine parts to a specific device, which will completely lock us out of 3rd party repair options if we accept and normalize this behavior. See for example: - "The iPhone 14 Continues Apple’s Digital Repair Lockdown" by iFixit - [LINK] - "iPhone 14 Pro Programmed To Reject Repair" by Hugh Jeffreys - [this video] - The long list of Louis Rossmann's rants on the topic