hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and Apple has never been a big fan of
letting you repair your devices and even more so now they're pushing against the
right to repair bill in California now I don't live in California but there's a
bill that's being pushed that will give you the right to repair your own device
so you can fix it upgrade the battery or replace the battery and that's what
we're going to do in this and that's what Apple says they think it's too
dangerous for you to do they don't think it's safe enough for you to replace the
battery yourself in your own devices and I've always been a big advocate of
working on your own devices I've shown you in many videos replacing hard drives
with solid state drives batteries all sorts of things so let's go ahead and
upgrade the battery and thanks to I fix it for sending along a battery so I
could do this and it's not a sponsored video but they did send the battery so I
could replace it so this phone obviously works but the battery does not last very
long so let me go ahead and shut it down here and we'll get started so we'll turn
that off and you'll see I have the iFixit Pro tech tool kit here now these
are pretty much all the tools I'll need and I'll need the pentalobe screwdriver
that's here I'll also need a small phillips screwdriver that's here and
what i do is i use this tray to keep the parts in and store everything I need
I'll also need a suction cup and a little prying device as well so I've got
both of those things here I've got the device off let me get my screwdriver
here and get started now the first thing we need to do is take out these two
screws on the bottom here so we're going to remove those let's take them out
there's one
these have never been removed in their not very tight so they come up pretty
easily now the next thing we need to do is pop this top off of the frame itself
and you do that with a suction cup there is a device that does this but you can
do this with a suction cup like this give it a little bit of force here
you'll see it starts to pull up right here and we can get a little tool
underneath there at the same time it is a little bit tricky but you can see
right there I did it and you don't want to pull too far because there's a little
ribbon cable in here for the touch ID sensor so pull just a little bit and
you'll see there's the cable there and what we need to do is if we slide this
over like this it makes it kind of easy to work on we'll take the suction cup
off now I have a little spudger here and we need to remove this little piece here
so I have a spudger and I need to pop this little metal piece off right here
once you've removed that little metal piece it clips in right here so just be
careful it's a tiny little ribbon cable and then open the display up vertically
but be careful of these cables right here now we need to remove these two
screws here for the battery connector it helps if you can prop this up next to
something like an iPhone box but we'll just do it like this we'll undo these
screws here now we can pop off this little metal piece just flip it up like
that and then here is the battery connector so right here is what we need
to pop up I'll get under it this way now the battery connectors disconnected and
the next step is to remove four screws these four screws here that's just to
remove the display and be safe because you're going to pull on this with a
little bit of force when you're trying to remove the battery now we'll remove
the plate here and one thing you want to make sure that you do is store the
actual screws in the correct order so I actually have these lined up here so in
this little tray here this goes like this and each screw is corresponding to
each square that's how I remember it so we'll flip this up and we'll pop the
display off so there's three different connectors
here sometimes there's four but let's pop these off right here there we go the
display has been removed now the next step is to remove the battery and this
is the part that Apple thinks is too dangerous for you and what that means is
if you puncture this especially with something metal it can catch fire so
down in here is where there's a little piece a little pull tab so that we can
remove the battery so we pry this up like this and you'll see there's a
little hook here you could hook under and pull but you don't want to do that
what you want to do is you'll see there's two pull tabs there you want to
split it down the middle so you can pull one at a time
now the other pull tab actually broke and this can happen quite often and this
is what makes it dangerous if you don't know what you're doing or use some
common sense so you want to keep this as flat as can be and just pull it out as
flat as you can now that one snapped as well so this is where this is going to
be a little bit tricky we'll need to pry this out maybe heat it up a little bit
because the pull tab snapped somewhere around in here and we don't want to use
anything metal so you want to use maybe a spudger something like this to try and
pry that out of there
so after you've applied enough heat you can get under here and just pry and you
got to go very carefully back in the fourth and if you do it right you won't
have an issue you'll see there is the glue underneath and as you pull it and
it stretches it will come right off if you try to pull it straight up it won't
you actually have to stretch it away from it and so I'll show you what I mean
if you grab it right here it won't pull straight up but if you pull it out it
just comes right off so that's what we were trying to do before so now we've
got the old battery out this is what Apple says is so dangerous if we were to
puncture this it would have been a problem but you'll see it came out just
fine it doesn't look great but it's okay and it actually will probably still work
but we want to replace it anyway so with the new I fix a battery kit for this you
need to get the battery out here it's pretty simple and then we have some
adhesive strips so we can put some new ones in so the battery stays put so the
adhesive is lined up we'll just push it down that will work and then once we
figure out where we want this to sit looks like we want it to be all the way
down here now the batteries in place so now we need to put everything back in
reverse
now that little clip is probably the hardest part once you have that just get
to the top of the display put it in a little bit right into the top here and
then click it down into place on the sides now before I actually put the
screws in the bottom let's see if it will turn on let's see if it will power
on now it may not the battery could be low but there we go it's powering on now
I fix it does include a little card for this that says we should drain it down
below 10% then charge it to 100% for calibration and we only need to do that
once from there on out everything will be managed by iOS so now we can login
and we should be good to go so this one has about 50% battery life left I'll
drain it down and then of course I'll charge it all the way up now again Apple
does not want us doing this they think we should not repair these on our own
which is just pretty crazy if you have a little bit of skill and some patience
and some tools you'll be able to do it no problem this is the old battery and
of course I'll dispose of this properly through recycling here locally we have
Best Buy's they'll take these batteries some other places will as well if you
have a local recycling place just make sure you dispose of lithium ion
batteries properly so I'll dispose of this and that's it if you'd like to get
your hands on this tool kit of course I'll link it in the description below
it's really handy I use it all the time and it's got every tool you could ever
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this video if not the other ones okay - as always thanks for watching this is
Aaron I'll see you next time