Apple: DIY repairs possible with used original components

A long-awaited announcement finally arrives for the Apple users which could change the maintenance of their smartphones forever. The company has opened up the possibility of repair iPhones using used original components.

Starting next fall, both customers and third-party repair services will be able to use genuine Apple parts to perform repairs repair interventions on iPhones. This possibility, at least initially, will be restricted to a circle of modelsbut the company has not yet specified which ones.

What does this announcement mean for Apple’s iPhones?

The use of original components for the repair of Apple devices will still be guaranteed by the company. Once “fixed” iPhones will have the same functionality and the same level of security ever. This will be possible thanks to factory calibration original, which will follow exactly the standards of any other new component in the house.

From this novelty, a series of will be born considerable advantages. The first is that it will certainly be much simpler order the necessary parts to iPhone repair. You will no longer need to provide the serial number of the device to have what is needed for maintenance, at least as far as repairs are concerned they do not involve the card mother. To avoid using original Apple parts from Stolen iPhonesthe company has decided to extend the function even further Activation Lock. What does it mean? In the event that an iPhone detects the use of a component from a stolen device, calibration will not work and maintenance will fail.

Apple will make as many of these available to users as possible information on the parts used during the repair directly via the Settings of iOS. This will allow you to be sure of the nature of the parties during a repair. Maybe it won’t be the announcement of the century, but still it’s great news for those who own an iPhone. The company has always been tied to its narrow inner circle, now so users and other “repairers” will have more room for maneuverdemonstrating greater accessibility and also sustainability in recycling of components.