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There is no faster method to your iPhone enjoyable to come back to an finish than for it to fall out of a pocket and take an enormous chunk of the dust sandwich when it hits the bottom. And whereas changing the show on an iPhone remains to be non-trivial, it is attainable to do it with primary hand instruments.
However the identical cannot be mentioned of the glass on the opposite aspect.
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Break the again glass and also you’re in a world of harm. You are both dismantling the iPhone all the way down to its part components so as to have the ability to change it, otherwise you want entry to a again glass laser elimination machine.
Nope, I do not appear to have a kind of right here on the PC Doc HQ.
However with the introduction of the iPhone 15 Professional, Apple seems to have corrected this design flaw and made it simpler to exchange the again glass.
How?
Apple has revamped the interior chassis structure, including a brand new structural body that permits the again glass to be simply changed.
And no lasers are required!
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You is perhaps questioning why Apple cannot merely eliminate the again glass altogether and change it with one thing that will not break, possibly that fancy grade 5 titanium it makes use of for the outer chassis of the iPhone 15 Professional.
The reason being easy: It must be glass to work with wi-fi charging, as wi-fi charging will not work by steel.
I like this modification, however it’s disappointing that it wasn’t added to the non-Professional fashions. If you would like straightforward repairs that do not power you to laser off the again glass to exchange it, you need to pay for the privilege.