hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple finally launched their self-service repair
this is the way you can replace your device's display or different components by yourself if you
feel comfortable doing that now this also gives you different parts you can order you can order
tools and also apple provides manuals as well so i want to show you how that works and this
is great also for those that just don't have an apple store nearby so of course apple recommends
bringing it to an apple store or or a service center and sometimes that can be less expensive
than doing it yourself but the components are now available later this year apple says that they'll
be expanding this to different products first it starts with iphone then apple silicon max later on
it's currently available in the us and will expand to additional countries beginning in europe later
this year so to start the process here we just go to our web browser and go to selfservicerepair.com
now this is apple's official website with their genuine parts you can order and tools and more
and it doesn't really look like an apple website maybe that's on purpose but as you
can see here it says genuine apple parts apple tools you've got repair manuals and you can
learn more about it as well so if we go to start your order you start by selecting your product
now currently this is only available for iphone so you'll see you only have the option for iphone
and then once you select iphone you can select the model you have the iphone 12 through the iphone
13 pro max and the latest third generation iphone se so that's what you're able to repair now maybe
this will expand later on as i think that would be great to see older devices maybe an iphone 10 or
maybe an iphone 7 so maybe they'll add that later on but right now it's only the past couple years
devices so let's start by selecting an iphone 13 pro max and then we have the option for repair
type you can see here there's not a ton of options but we have battery bottom speaker camera display
sim tray and taptic engine so say we want to replace the display we can do that
and you can reset the filter and then as we scroll below you'll see it says genuine apple parts so
iphone 13 pro max display bundle it's 311.96 and there's also a return credit once you've completed
the repair you can return the old components to apple and they'll give you a credit of 33. 33.60
for your broken display now the nice thing is you don't have to order the bundle you can order
different parts maybe you're missing screws from your phone you can order those and so if
we scroll down you'll see here's the display and screw kit for hundred and nine dollars
if we scroll down again we can buy the adhesive for a dollar eighty and then if we scroll down
again we have the screws we have the screws that go in the bottom of the phone here they're called
security screws they're pentalobe screws generally and those are 20 cents so if we scroll back down
you can see them for 20 cents you have different covers inside the phone and a whole set of screws
for the internals of the phone for 3.90 so it's pretty reasonable as far as that goes then we have
apple's tools which i think this is great these are the same tools that apple actually uses within
the apple store you can rent them if you don't want to spend a lot of money to buy the whole set
but you'll see for 49 you can rent them for seven days to repair your display so it's an iphone 13
pro max tool kit to sort of repair anything you need so you can you can see here and get more
information about what's in it what it cost to rent it if there's any sort of other fees as well
as we scroll down you can see all of the different tools you can buy as well so you can buy different
screw bits or or screwdriver bits and then also the 6.7 inch repair tray so you place your iphone
in this just detach the display from the phone fold it up and it actually holds it in place
so all of the different components necessary you can see here even a display press to hold
it down and also a heated display removal fixture you can buy all of those individually so if you
want to repair them yourself regularly you could do this and that's 256 dollars which
i actually think is pretty reasonable given that the phone is a thousand dollars and this is sort
of a whole fixture to fix the phone so that's pretty reasonable i think as far as that goes
now the other good thing is there's manuals for this so not only can you have the parts delivered
but you also have manuals and then there's support as well so if we go to the manuals right now the
manuals are available for iphones and that's pretty much it there's not much detail in the
macbook manual so that's something i looked in a little bit earlier but if we select the iphone
13 pro max give it just a moment here you can see it's 81 pages long so there's a lot in here
and it explains how to repair the iphone so these are manuals that apple uses you'll see here's
the display removal press or display removal fixture and it talks about battery safety and
you can replace all of those things yourself however after you replace certain components
you may need to contact apple and go into some system configuration they can help you do that
and what that does is calibrate things like displays cameras and ambient light sensors
and that will calibrate what the values of our of the display to the phone itself that helps ensure
things like display color accuracy and true tone and ambient light sensors and things like that
so maybe you're replacing components for face id it will help pair that with the logic board
for biometric authentication so those are all things that are available now but they don't tell
you how to do the self configuration or system configuration you have to reach out to apple to do
that after you've completed your repair so that's something that they've started today with all of
this now currently apple says they're offering 200 different components and tools to go along with
your repairs so they're genuine apple components i think that's the best part where their actual
apple components so you're not getting third party components you're getting the same thing apple has
and also this does not void your warranty according to apple but if you damage something
maybe you damage a cable while removing the display you'll still have to purchase that cable
or reach out to apple to have them fix that so they won't cover the cost of things you've damaged
but they will cover the warranty if something just stops working after maybe you've been using it for
a while so after you've calibrated everything it ensures the values of things and then
also ensures repair integrity according to apple now one thing i would like to see apple do that
they're not going to do with manuals is release board level schematics for iphones and macs
now i'm not someone that would be repairing that using a microscope and different techniques
but there are others out there other creators on youtube that repair those full-time and also
could benefit from actual manuals with schematics from apple on them unfortunately they're not going
to be providing those that's something i really hope they provide in the future for those that
can repair and so you'll see here here's the latest macbook pro 16-inch there's not a whole
lot of information in here yet hopefully in the future they'll provide more and more information
as there are people that are skilled and have been doing these things for years that would definitely
benefit from those manuals now currently i know of no plans and apple hasn't mentioned whether or
not they're going to allow you to repair ipads hopefully they'll allow you to do this in the
future as that's something i think a lot of people would benefit from ipads have the same batteries
that will wear out after time displays get broken and components need to be replaced from time to
time now ipads are extremely difficult to replace components on if you've ever done that getting
the display off is a bit difficult once you're past that point it's very similar to an iphone
but i would love to see them provide parts for just about everything they make at some point if
possible now maybe we'll see that in the future and hopefully we see more and more of this for
those of you that are outside the united states that don't have access to an apple store easily
so maybe you just want to buy a genuine apple battery i hope they make this available very
soon all across the world not just in the us and europe but other countries as well i would love
to see that hopefully very soon but of course apple has to make sure they have the parts in
stock to be able to provide that service as well so that's everything with apple's self-service
repair program let me know what you think of it in the comments below i think it's a great
thing we finally got something where we can order genuine apple parts and if i ever need a battery
for an older phone once they make those available i'll definitely be ordering from here let me know
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