iFixit has good news and bad news about the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s repairability
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6F1WK)
Screenshot: iFixit via YouTube While Apple may have made the iPhone 15 Pro Max easier to repair physically, a teardown from iFixit reveals it still comes with the same parts pairing constraints as its predecessors.
Like the iPhone 14, iFixit found that the iPhone 15 lineup has a redesigned midframe that you can access by removing the device's screen or back glass. However, iFixit notes that the internals on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max live behind the screen, rather than the back glass, as is the case with the base iPhone 15 and 15 Plus as well as the iPhone 14 lineup.
This inverted setup could make critical repairs like battery swaps slightly riskier than on the 14," iFixit says, as you're removing the expensive, fragile display rather than an inert sheet of...