iPhone 15 Pro teardown shows new camera hardware, A17 Pro chip

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The first teardown of the new iPhone 15 Pro confirms it's easier to repair than before, and also reveals how the internal chassis has been redesigned.

Tearing down the iPhone 15 Pro (Source: PBKreviews)
Tearing down the iPhone 15 Pro (Source: PBKreviews)



Every review of the new iPhone 15 Pro has praised Apple for switching to titanium instead of stainless steel. That change means that the iPhones are lighter and stronger, but what gets ignored is that Apple also redesigned the interior.

Now PBKreviews on YouTube has uncovered the details of those internal changes, and demonstrated how in theory the new iPhone is more repairable than ever.



In practice, repairs require more than an ability to take apart and reassemble the phone. Nonetheless, PBKreviews gives the iPhone 15 Pro a repairability score of 7 out of 10.

"And that's if even any of the parts are replaceable," says the reviewer. "When it comes to Apple most parts are locked down, and even if you replace them they're going to pop up some kind of error message or not work properly."

Since around 2019 and the iPhone 11 series, Apple has included a system for verifying that a replacement screen has been done by an authorized repairer. It later extended the idea to repaired cameras, too.

In either case, if a repair does not use genuine Apple-sourced parts, the iPhone will persistently notify the user. It's meant to prevent users being scammed with cheaper, less relable repair components.

The first iPhone 15 Pro shipments to pre-order buyers will start on Friday, September 22, 2023. This is also when the new models will go on sale in Apple Stores.

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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    mikethemartianmikethemartian Posts: 1,418member
    It is nice to know that you can remove the battery without using those pull tabs.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 2 of 5
    thttht Posts: 5,530member
    mikethemartian said:
    It is nice to know that you can remove the battery without using those pull tabs.
    He’s not a good pull tab puller, as theoretically, those pull tabs make removing the battery a clean process. 

    He just used isopropyl alcohol to remove the battery. The usual way to do it. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 3 of 5
    thttht Posts: 5,530member
    Always amazed at the complexity of an iPhone. There’s like 10,000 ribbon cables going into that logic board. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but that dual layer logic board is nothing be ribbon cable ports. 

    An iPhone has close to 2x more components than a laptop?

    The Pros have 4 cameras (2 with sensor shift modules), LiDAR, IR scanner, dot projector, proximity sensor, induction coils, vibration motor, 2 speakers, 2 microphones, 4 antennas, 4 buttons, USB port, induction coil, and L shaped battery.

    All this stuff can’t be serialized and piped through 1 cable or sets of cables. Just crazy stuff. How this stuff can be made modular and have it all working would be an exercise in crazy. 


    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra
  • Reply 4 of 5
    mikethemartianmikethemartian Posts: 1,418member
    tht said:
    mikethemartian said:
    It is nice to know that you can remove the battery without using those pull tabs.
    He’s not a good pull tab puller, as theoretically, those pull tabs make removing the battery a clean process. 

    He just used isopropyl alcohol to remove the battery. The usual way to do it. 
    I was under the impression that the glue used was more difficult to dissolve than that.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 5 of 5
    thttht Posts: 5,530member
    mikethemartian said:
    tht said:
    mikethemartian said:
    It is nice to know that you can remove the battery without using those pull tabs.
    He’s not a good pull tab puller, as theoretically, those pull tabs make removing the battery a clean process. 

    He just used isopropyl alcohol to remove the battery. The usual way to do it. 
    I was under the impression that the glue used was more difficult to dissolve than that.
    You are good with acetone (nail polish remover) or isopropyl alcohol. You not "dissolving" the glue. The alcohol likely has a higher adhesion coefficient to the surface, and is seeping between the surface and the glue, breaking the glue's bond along the way. When the battery is pulled, ideally, the glue comes with the battery. If it stays on the phone, it seeped along the wrong surface, and you'd need more applications to get that glue off the phone side.

    The pull tabs supposedly will result in pulling the glue totally out leaving a clean surface. Probably not true all the time and the service tech has to clean, but if done right, it should be a much cleaner process with less solvent touching phone components.

    Like with everything, there is probably a procedure to get the pull tabs to come out well every time. Maybe it is having the right temperature, who knows.
    nubuswatto_cobra
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