iPhone 14 - You Wont Believe What Apple Did Inside - Teardown and Repair Assessment

Well done about the disagreement with your sponsor; this is very respectable. It is not easy to handle and it was very professional. This bring some real trust and seriousness to the channel. Software lock is even worse than some hardware gluing. Because you can always use laser machine eventually but no laser will ever break an encryption or hack some access and keep things legitimate enough for repair... The difference of points between Samsung and Apple on ifixit score makes really no sense at all indeed.

Finally someone who's pointing out that apple didn't actually fix anything. Thank you for your hard work, I always love your teardowns and tests.

Their repairability score should be zero until until the part pairing thing is gone

I really appreciate your honest opinions on every repair and also the scores from the partner company.Keep up.

Very good video. Completely agree with that Ifixit criticism. In that video about the IPhone 14 they absolutely praised Apple for going more repair friendly, but the still locked components didn't get enough attention in that video. Functionality like Face id is still far far more important than a easy to repair back glass. I like how your standpoint about right to repair and software locking has become even better and better explained from video to video. You describe the issue with your video script very well and differentiated. Thanks for your dedication

I had much the same reaction to ifixits repair score. Kind of ridiculous of them to not mention the software issues that occur when repaired by a 3rd party

At this point I'd be surprised if Apple DIDN'T pair the back glass to each phone. It's what they do. (I realise it's not paired, but I still expected the rumour to be true)

I'm shocked at how low some of the repairability scores for Samsung smartphones are, even if they are a bit more difficult to take apart, the fact that parts can actually be replaced without disabling features is a huge advantage.

Modularity means nothing if the part you swap doesn't work.

I wonder if ifixit’s score was influenced by external interests, considering that they scored objectively more repair friendly phones lower, not even equal, to the iphone

With the rumour about back glass being paired, could this have anything to do with the magsafe accessory NFC functionality? Cant think of much else the back panel is linked to

Love your honesty in your videos... Do you think that some companies are afraid to critize Apple.. It sure looks like it. They obviously have too much to lose. Its disgraceful.

Really agree with the point about the iFixit score. Maybe they considered the Apple Self Service Program into the equation, but that is not available in all countries and even if it was, that doesn't excuse disabling any features.

Hugh!!! The legend that keeps on giving. Thank you for defending rights to repair!

11:27 yes!

Hugh your honesty is an absolute credit to you. Brilliant video as always.

I couldn't believe ifixit's repairability score either, and posted a comment on their channel saying so. Until Apple stop this anti-repair attitude, I won't be buying any of their devices. Thanks again for another great vid.

You sir deserves more subscribers than any repairing channel! Thanks for the hard work!

I very much agree. It's all just petty software locks. Apple could make things significantly easier than it is, there's no need to disable such things automatically, make it a toggle if something doesn't work, or at the bare minimum give an option to enable it after acknowledging there could possibly be an issue.

I completely agree with the point you made about the score iFixit gave to the iPhone. When components are software locked you can’t do anything, whereas if the phone’s hardware is just difficult to repair or access there’s always a way.