A teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max shows that most repairs require removing the screen, which has a delicate ...

Replacing the battery is easy - getting the display is off is the problem.

Fixit today published an iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max teardown in both article and video formats, providing a closer ...

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It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.

Fixit’s iPhone 18 Pro teardown reveals an exquisitely engineered six-blade variable aperture mechanism that is extraordinarily difficult to service if anything inside it goes wrong.

Phone 18 Pro variable aperture brings f/1.48 ultra-wide shots, but iFixit warns the iris blades make camera repairs nearly impossible.

Cramming that mechanism into the same main camera footprint as the iPhone 17 Pro series models is impressive, with iFixit describing Apple’s variable aperture lens as “a feat of precision engineering.

Fiddly mechanical bits around the new camera, and a repeated design choice forcing internal repairs to go through a screen with a potentially fragile frame, led the iFixit team to conclude that, even ...

Fixit has published its traditional teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro, which shows the variable aperture mechanism up close and explores a potential issue involving display repairs.

Apple's variable aperture might capture better photos, but is near impossible to fix if it breaks.

Apple’s first variable-aperture iPhone camera is a feat of miniature engineering. It is also essentially unfixable at the component ...