Apple has gone all in on the Right to Repair movement, and you can now buy genuine parts to repair an iPhone 17 or iPhone Air yourself.

In this week's episode of One More Thing, which you can watch embedded above, I go through what it's like to use AppleCare to repair a device, why it's so important to backup your files, what ...

Users can buy genuine replacement parts to address issues such as cracked screens or worn-out batteries via Apple's Self ...

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air now join the Self Service Repair program — but fixing them yourself still costs just ...

Apple has now added the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air to its self-service repair program.

I t's frustrating when your iPhone starts losing charge even while sitting idle. Mine had begun doing that more often, ...

If your iPhone battery drains faster after updating to iOS 26, wait 24–48 hours for background tasks to settle. Then update to iOS 26.1, restart your iPhone, check and update battery-draining apps, ...

Despite the rumors, there isn’t a silicon-carbon battery in the iPhone Air. Apple’s decision to stick with trusty old graphite-based lithium-ion for this generation makes sense considering the safety ...

No matter how flashy a smartphone might be, how many features it touts, it has a single piece of technology packed inside that is more important than any other: the battery. When it runs dry, your ...

iOS 26 is here, and if you've noticed a decline in your battery life since updating, you're probably not imagining it. It's been a long-held belief among Apple users that an iPhone's battery ...

As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into ...

Miniaturization is a trend that comes and goes in the cellular phone space. For a while, our phones were all getting smaller, then they started getting bigger again as screens expanded to show us ever ...