Apple is opening up iPhones and Macs to DIY repairs. The company plans to start selling parts and tools and offering instructions on how to repair Apple products at home, without having to bring them into a store or a third-party repair shop. Apple plans to start with the iPhone 12 and 13, followed by Macs with M1 chips. Youโll be able to replace the iPhoneโs display, battery, and camera using parts from Apple at first, with other options coming later.
This is a huge shift from Apple, which has historically been resistant to the right-to-repair movement and from any repairs happening outside of its own stores. Even this week, Apple was walking back software that prevented Face ID from working if customers replaced their own screen.
Apple is calling the program โSelf Service Repair,โ and itโll launch โearly next yearโ in the US and then expand to other countries. The company says the program is only meant for โindividual technicians with the knowledge and experience to repair electronic devicesโ and that most customers should still go to a professional. But Apple is at least now offering an option for the customers who do feel comfortable undertaking the repair on their own. Critically, making these repairs yourself wonโt void a deviceโs warrant, according to TechCrunch, although damaging your device in the process still might.
The change also helps to further entrench Apple in the repair process. The company already has a program to sell โgenuineโ parts to third-party repair shops, and todayโs announcement makes it all the more likely customers will buy full-priced parts from Apple โ parts that wonโt trip off iPhone systems that try to prevent the use of components that werenโt bought from Apple โ rather than looking for aftermarket options in the limited circumstances where that might be possible.
iFixit, the go-to resource for DIY repair parts and instructions, celebrated the move but noted that it came with substantial caveats. Appleโs decision is โa remarkable concession to our collective competencyโ and invalidates many of the arguments that Apple and other companies have made against right to repair, writes Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixitโs director of sustainability. But Chamberlain notes that this still isnโt โthe open-source repair revolution weโve sought through our fight for the right to repairโ because it appears to still support restrictions that require parts to be bought straight from Apple.
Apple says it plans to sell โmore than 200 individual parts and tools.โ The company will also offer repair manuals that customers can review before buying the parts.
Pricing for the parts and tools hasnโt been announced. Apple says customers can receive a recycling credit for returning their used part after completing a repair.
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