iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design - Teardown and Repair Assessment 

It's honestly hilarious to me that you can buy a $1,000 phone and apple doesn't give you everything you need to charge it

This is so genuinely anti-consumer that legal action may genuinely be needed. Apple is acting like the phone still belongs to them.

“ there are 2 billion Apple power adapters in the world… And we’re going to render them obsolete.” To prevent e-waste. Sure thing, buddy.

“To reduce waste, we are going to make our products unrecycleable.”

Apple: makes repair service incredibly expensive People : ok I’ll go find a cheaper repair service Apple: *visible anger*

Apple is forgetting that when someone buys their product, the product belongs to that person, not to Apple. Me and my family were always Apple users but I’m genuinely considering moving to Android.

Great video! Very in depth. Apple should be allowing repairs. I'd even be fine if they 'locked' repairs untill after the warranty expires, but after that people should be allowed to fix devices that they own.

Apple: We will not include Charger blocks in your purchase, you have to buy it seperately. EA: *THATS* MY BOY!

Imagine if you changed the battery in your car yourself, but you car refused to start because it's not an authorized genuine car battery.

this is so sketchy. they didnt just lock it out, they tried to make it look like the phone was broken just to give any repair shops attempting to fix these phones a bad name.

The modularity on apple devices and the way they sell replacement parts shows the rift between the amazing talented apple engineers and the cutthroat apple corporate.

>claims that they’re trying to be “enviromental-friendly” >makes phone that is impossible to repair unless you pay them to do so >doesn’t include power block in the box, making you have to go pay them extra to buy the power block separately from them which is actually worse for the environment than just including it in the box >does the same with their earbuds >literally rendered 2 billion of their power adapters obsolete just so people could buy a new one from them >wants you to buy a new phone from them every year But suuuure, I guess Apple totally wants to be super eco-friendly and good for the planet, right? The only “green initiative” they want is the one that puts green dollar bills in their pockets.

Apple's environmental angle is all marketing bs, they've always wanted you to buy a new device every year and this just shows the levels they'll go to ensure it. Gross!

“We are eco friendly, we don’t send charger blocks” “We make you buy it from us somewhere else for twice the price

The most eco-friendly method is just don't buy their new phones. Keep using your old one. =_=

Apple: If it ain't broke, we will break it.

*Phone Breaks* You - "Can you repair it?" Apple - "No, you need to buy a new one"

“We aren’t including an adapter to reduce waste” Now we have to buy entire new cables so we can connect them to currently owned adapters, cars, and other such items. Thus making the cord they sent waste. Wonderful job Apple

Apple: We want to make our world more green! Someone: So, eco friendly? Apple: No, I'm talking about green like money

Me who has never bought any apple products: interesting But seriously: people like you make plattforms like youtube actually valuable in terms of useful information - keep it up.

Pro tip: Don't buy electronics from a company that refuses to let you repair them.

I'm so incredibly surprised that this company is still standing with people defending it

I've owned 1 Apple PC in my life time and that was like 10 or 12 yrs ago. Video went out on it after 12 1/2 months --- they wanted $1300 to repair it - it was only $1800 brand new. Being a electronics engineer for over 35 yrs, I fixed the damn thing myself. Time wise took me longer to take the casing apart than to actually fix it. Total parts cost was $1.79 !!! That was the last Apple product I ever owned and will never ever have another Apple product. Aside of their outrageous rip off prices for repairs, Apple is just too damn intrusive for my liking. After you buy something from them it belongs to you, not them, yet they do everything possible to control how you use it, what you can or can't do with it and all they can do to prevent you from repairing it or having it repaired by anyone other than them. Which is BS !!! They took my money for it, its MY property now, not theirs. So nope, I will not deal with any company that still wants to control everything about MY property !!! Oh, I forgot to mention --- over those past years, I've probably steered over 100 people from buying Apple products --- all I had to do is tell them my story, what happened to me, and they made their own decision - interesting parts, damn near every one of them said the same thing as I did --- Once they buy its their property now NOT APPLE'S and they should be able to do with it whatever they so choose --- same as I said !!!

Apple: "Create a problem, sell the solution"

Imagine not being able to see your vehicle's gas level, temp, brake fluid and mirrors because you replaced a broken windshield or tank. That's Apple, you're welcome.

i worked at a repair facility. after replacing cameras, battery's and displays on iPhone, there was a process we had to perform on the phone to make the new part work with the device called calibration, which was basically updating the serial numbers of the parts with the serial number of the phone. i think the lack of this process has something to do with what you experienced in this video.

Imagine Ford and GM tried this many years ago, telling car owners that if they didn't use genuine Ford and GM parts, they'd void their warranty. The carmakers were successfully sued, can't do that any more. Apple hasn't learned that lesson.

"to prevent e-waste, we decided to make our 2 billion old parts not useable anymore (wich means waste)" - Apple

Imagine an apocalyptic situation where you need to repair your smartphone and luckily you found all the replacement parts in a wasteland, but then you remember you use apple.

Wow. Imagine a company like Apple that is trying to sell picture-perfect devices having a screw that is pre-stripped from the factory.

apple: cuts waste by removing charger also apple: phone needs sticker

If no one buys the phones, then yes, apple's statement of "wanting 0 waste by 2030" will be true.🤣🤣

Apple are totally contradicting themselves here, the very best way of “Recycling” is to Maintain, Repair and keep using your old iPhone or any other Brand of Smartphone, until they become too outdated to be worth keeping!

Apple has probably seen this video and giving themselves a pat in the back for accomplishing such evil

"We want to minimize waste!" ... So you change literally every plug on every accessory every phone. Meanwhile TVs can still use the red, yellow, and white cables.

This was EYE-OPENING. Thank you for making this video. It is ridiculous that the consumers even have to ask for the 'right to repair', it should be there anyway! I feel consumer pressure and very strict government laws are the only way to stop this madness. Sooner or later, these companies will have to admit and pay for what they are doing!

It was a blessing that you couldn't get parts to test its reparability. In having to use two new original phones, you proved that they are serialized at the component level. Well done video!

Apple: "please use your old charger we need to save the enviroment" Also Apple: "We started including chargers with usb-c port few months ago but hey you can still buy it for an unreasonable amount from our shop!" Also also apple: makes it impossible for normal people to fix their phones.

What a time to be an Android user

They do this so you go to the apple store for repairs and pay them more money than the phone costs to fix an issue that takes 5 minutes to fix.

The idea that the charger blocks were removed for environmental purposes is absurd. Not only do most iPhone users not have a USB-C block, those who will be forced to buy a new one either from apple or a third-party source will be creating more waste because of the extra packaging.

4:19 "With both phones open, we can finally, start messing around with the internals, to see how greedy apple is"

Apple in the past: Does more, costs less. It's that simple. Current Apple: Create a problem, sell the solution.

They are LITERALLY shooting theirselves in the foot with saying they do it for the "enviroment" when your battery stops having max battery life and your camera stops working

It was explained in another video how shipping phones without chargers is actually less green friendly than including them

Normal computers: "oh, yeah, do whatever you want. Nobody cares." Apple with everything: "you can either choose doing nothing, or doing not a single thing at all. Anything else and you are dead."

The right-to-repair community is made up of so many experts an professionals that reverse-engineering Apple's products shouldn't be very difficult if it was just more organized. They should be able to make their own diagrams, circumvent every lockout Apple creates, and pull this off. The Dark Web should be the best platform for such a community to stay relatively hidden outside of the control of the big companies controlling the internet. Proper organization is what's needed. If this could just become a reality, Apple wouldn't stand a chance.

Interviewer: "so why did you do this" Apple: "MONEY"

Apple: "we're aiming to be environmental friendly so we ditched the charger" also Apple: "wtf is repair? go buy another Iphone!"

Why are all the tech influencers not talking about this? This has to be talked about very very much

what they actually mean is "we want to manipulate most of our young and dumb fans into thinking we are good and just make stuff In such a way that you HAVE to buy everything we make"

There are only two reasons why they would do this 1.so that 3rd partys dont accidentally mess it up (But we know its not this 1) 2.so that you have it fixed at there store so that you pay them (its this 1)

Am so proud of apple, because they helped me think like them. They omitted a power charger believing that we all have them already. With the same thinking mindset, it occurred to me that, hey I already have an iPhone, so why buy a whole new one. Right! Thank you Apple! :) for guiding me not to invest in your newer models anymore! Y'all rock!

Apple website: “whatever you do, don’t try to fix the battery yourself” Hugh: *we’re going to ignore the law*

Apple: we aim for 0 waste ALso Apple: if your phone is broke, might as well as buy a new one.

Right to repair, property rights, imagine if your pace maker was on a monthly subscription plan?

The no charger thing is a sticking point for me.

When you buy something it's yours, you can do what ever you want with your property. Its time for change

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to research this and for letting us know. This is crazy what Apple is doing. They don't want to prevent waste, they just want more money.

I hate telling my customers I no longer work on iPhones cause of that. All that gray area involed with it I just dont work on Apple devices altogether. Thanks for the video for validating that, and mention this about it. Right to repair is desperatly needed.

there is about to be a law in germany that phones have to be reparable and batteries have to be exchangable by the user. We need that everywhere

Very informative video, thank you. As a cracked display is a common repair, did you swap them over, and if so what was the outcome?

Thank you for making such a detailed video. This looks like a lot of work and was very enlightening.

I'm an engineer. I literally learned my trade by taking things apart and putting them back together again. The young graduates I interview these days that learned in school don't actually know how to build things anymore. Teaching kids that the world is made out of proprietary things they can't possibly understand is not the way you build a great civilization.

I believe all components has unique IDs and are stored in some ROM/flash memory created during factory setup of the phone and when turned on it runs a antitamper check and disables certain features based on it, updating that memory with replacement component IDs being could make it work.

Very informative and valuable information. Thank you for posting this discovery. You have saved many of us from hours of frustration. !!

The camera glitchiness is deliberate.. its to make it look like the repairman has messed up. Many tech unsavvy users would be fooled by this.

Apple be like: We're updating your bank account to have a much slimmer design

Wow, that's kinda sneaky of them, great tear-down & review. I'd strongly urge you to invest in some anti-static gear though as those internal parts will be easily static damaged.

Since most 12 or 13 users will be updating from an older lightning-equipped iPhone (side-note, shout-out to those just now updating from a 4 or 4s), the old charger still works. And if you have one of the larger iPad charger bricks, it even charges a bit faster. Still not as fast as usb-c, but still very usable.

I would be interesting to see the source code that intentionally cripples these devices.

Thanks for this video, man, that was very interesting ! Jesus, the lengths Apple goes to these days. This reminds me of anti-piracy features you could find on Nintendo's NES and Sony's Playstation back in the day. The fact that this company considers the right for customers to repair as hardware piracy is nuts....

and people still think Apple is "consumer friendly" and an ethical company.

When you said there was no charging brick included with the iPhone, I immediately went over to the Apple website to check the price of them. I'm surprised to see they are only £19 which is still a lot for a charging brick, but quite cheap for something from Apple. I expected Apple to put a £45+ price tag on them.

I'm still stuck on hearing the Sim card slot had a screw that was rounded from factory. Basically warranty voided right out of the box if they get it back, see that, and blame the user.

Yeah there's two billion adapters already, so... We are going to make a whole much more!

my favorite part is how the 'protective film' is white instead of clear. forcing you to remove it

Great video man, I already knew Apple locked down their stuff but... Damn...i didn't know it was to this extent.

Apple 2020: We don't provide a charger with iPhone. Apple 2023: When your iPhone charge runs out, you'll have to buy another iPhone.

Seriously you can make a horror game out of what happens when you swap the logic boards

Well done mate. Fortunately it'll only be a matter of time before Right to Repair will become legally mandated in most places.

Profound. Hands of a neurosurgeon with the patience of Job. Thanks for the effort and information.

Louis Rossmann is going to go ballistic over this development. Thanks for the heads-up Sir.

The packaging alone should tell u about how “eco-friendly” they are 🙄

Apple: removing a whole power supply for "sustainability" Also apple: making phones not repairable SuStAiNaBiLiTy

I find it ridiculous that Apple tried to justify removing the headphone jack back in 2016 while introducing that relatively huge Taptic Engine inside the enclosure.

Each part got its own snid and registered to the phone. If you have 2 identical parts with the same snid, there'll be no problem at all.

The moment I saw this phone as a kid (The first iphone), I knew something feels off. I remember seeing my uncle's very archaic pc to have itunes and other iphone pc apps that my normal phone can just drag and drop directly once connected to it. It was pretty weird to see that you need an app to store stuff or move music, because of security, I will give them credit for that. I was right to check if apple's gonna do something drastic, well...the earphone jack being wireless isn't as drastic for some but for me it was.

Great video. Companies like 🍎 just need to be put into their place. Legal action needs to be taken against them

You have to marvel at the slimy genius of it. They've taken the extra time and effort not only to make original parts non-interchangable, they've made the errors look erratic, so that any repair job will look botched. No doubt when when you take it to Apple for "proper" repair, all they need to do is plug in their diagnostic tool and press "authorize current hardware" and charge you 50-80 dollars for two minutes of unskilled labour.

“recycling shouldn’t be the only option - repairing and reusing should come first” wise words, this bugs me a lot.

Anyone else remember being able to easily replace your phone battery if it stopped working? Feels like a lifetime ago

And here is me watching this video in my android phone just to cover my feelings that i cant afford one...now i m fully satisfied😂👍

Imagine actually wanting apple products.

You have to pair the firmware of every component with the instructions in the original logic board, it seems. Since iPhone X this is the trend. You have to copy the firmware from the original component and write it in the new before install. So if you swap the logic board you have all the components to transfer the firmware 😀 #encryptedHardware

Key words: "Only apple having the tools to repair the new part."

So basically, Apple is trying to make it seem like the phone is ruined and buggy if you repair it yourself, to make you believe you did something wrong and ruined the phone. So sketchy.

The only things I would ever do with device part pairing would be the following: 1. Let Face/Touch ID work, but all data on them is wiped, so you have to set up new fingerprints/Face IDs. A test may also be needed to make sure it's not a spoofed ID or whatever. 2. Possibly perform a hardware scan to ensure the new parts are working properly. 3. Have it say somewhere that the device is refurbished and thank you for using a refurbished device instead of letting it go to e-waste.

@hugh Very interesting video. I'm just wondering one thing if you replace the motherboard and the camera assembly together will it still give the same issues with the camera. This would prove that the camera and motherboard are paired" together.

Would be interesting if Apple was honest during their presentations and featured all of the anti-tamper features they’ve added to each of the new phones. Quite sure that there won’t be too many cheers coming from the audience