I work for the biggest phone repair company in Canada, we are authorized by Samsung, Apple, LG, Google and Huawei. And i gotta say the most phones we do repairs on are Samsungs and LGs. We do repair iPhones but its just regular stuff unlike Samsungs that have damaged PBAs, S’PBA batteries that stop working after a couple of months of purchase cameras. No network connection what so ever for no reason!! I’m just talking from experience Samsung makes great phones but the amount of bad parts in their phones that need to be repaired the whole time just gets annoying!
It's a slap on face of customer , rather than being sorry for worst quality n design that break so easily ,they actually charge people for faulty decision of apple which is to shove glass on pbone back when no rational person will ever want
@@sainaveenbali samsung, lg, hauwei one plus etc… all do the same! It just sounds like your butt hurt from something apple did to you or you had one bad experience even tho i really doubt that you ever owned an apple product. Apple does many things the way they want and they dont care about what people say, but you cant just single them out for something all companies do🤦🏽♂️
@@samiajji2392 Sami firstly let me begin by saying that I have used many phones you mentioned in the list and apple since iPhone 3. I see most of your life you have been judging people so quickly but that's not why I care to reply. The point is this, my friend. firstly yes I do agree that most of the companies are following apple way over the years but they still are very different in how they treat the customer. Compare a policy of repair of one plus with apple and you are most welcome to verify this If the glass panel crack for one plus and they have their way to understand if the break happens from dropping phone or not, they replace or repair the phone free of cost, (absolutely free). Now for the same issue, let's say it cost iPhone 11 about INR 48k in India after all discounts. If your back panel glass cracks and they do sometimes if you just keep it in pocket and sit down, this is as told to me by apple genius, apple will charge you 70% of the MRP of the phone (not the price you paid after discount) even if the phone got a crack without any fault of the user within a week time of purchase. Now you may say get apple care, but even if you take apple care, you have to about INR 7k (call it GST ) so as customer yous till pay for something company should own its responsibility for poor/ brittle design. Had they been not putting such irrational prices of repair, you won't find entire world complaining about anti-competitive repair policy of apple. I can go on but i guess I made my point I know this COVID thing is making people very restless and keyboard warriors. Hope the same is not happening to you. Have a great day my friend and no I am not butthurt at all. I do teach courses on anti-trust and am involved in public policy framework on these topics, so I know what is am saying, it's just that you don't expect to type it out all on the youtube comment section.
I wouldn’t blame them for the strong adhesive, reason why my iphone 6s survived when I ran through heavy rain when we did trail running in the mountain. I also bring my phone during rainy runs and even holds it without cover lol so it’s always exposed to moist/water. My iphone 8 is 4 years old now and still working fine and I also have 11 pro which I now bring to my runs. Downside here is if you are clumsy and wouldn’t even cover a jelly case and screen protector on your phone. I already dropped my phones a hundred times and the only time I cracked my iphone 8 was when I put the opening pin inside the back case and accidentally slept on it. It’s just small crack but sucks lol
@@kassiepovinelli2881 mainly because of the look, the premium look, I personally don't care about glass backs, I don't even care what back of my phone has glass or plastic, I have the A52 5G and it's plastic
First time back glass was on an iPhone was the iPhone 8? I could’ve sworn my iPhone 4 had back glass as well. Also this process seems like way too much trouble for what it’s worth. Just curious am I the only one. Either way it does look good once it’s all finished
Günther Gartenmann iphone 4 has a glass back that you can just slide off to swap it or the battery etc, no glue required. evidently that was too repairable for apple.
It’s what customers ultimately want. If apple would sell more phones making a repairable, thick phone with a back opening to replace the battery they would’ve done it. The average customer of any smart phone isn’t on a RUclips video about the repairability of a phone. We are not the average user. The average user wants to just walk in, and come out with a fixed phone in a quick amount of time. They don’t care if their phone can get fixed if it’s gonna take like a week because they need their phone as quick as possible. A buddy of mine used to work in the apple store and he would always complain about how customers would throw a fit about an hour turn around time for their repair. Imagine if they did more relatively complex repairs like the video. At the volume of phones the stores have to repair combined with how much more intricate the repair is for this you would have a WAY longer turn around time. If customers are shitting their pants for just one hour imagine if they’re told they have to wait over a week.
@@jayespin i buy apple because i love the ecosystem, but i'd much prefer a model with more repairability if available. but i'm quite sure many buy apple because apple and nobody would care for a 1 or 2mm thicker product that could be repaired for cheaper. the industry just doesn't do it because it feels it doesn't need to. even though it could help the world reduce the amount of trash. it means less profit. only reason.
@@xrefed It's called a housing. And when you buy a new housing, you have to transfer all the parts from the cracked phone into the new housing. That's complicated. So repair shops just repair the back glass rather than a housing swap
I bet you Apple has an eye on this video and already trying to figure out how to block anyone from performing the repairs since Apple is such a TOOL when it comes to repairs from outside repair shops.
I like your motive but nah fam he works for Apple as a subsidiary to repair phones a great percentage of his earnings goes to Apple and he’s limited of what things he can say and do in this world is basically sell your soul… you guys should look into it
There's a typo in the title ... it should read "How Apple tries to prevent ANYONE from being able to repair their phones for a reasonable price and instead push people to buy a brand new device by claiming the cost is too high because their own engineering made it that way."
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 that's the way it is now because of how companies design their products. John Deere is getting a lot of heat because they made it so farmers basically can't repair their own tractors without calling techs for software stuff. Farmers would rather have 30 year old repairable equipment than unrepairable new equipment.
Yeah it's called planned obsolescence. I don't mind companies doing that to stay profitable, but the fact that Apple actively discourages Right to Repair, causing tons of e-waste, while simultaneously branding themselves as a 'environmental-friendly' company or some bs really fires me up.
Right to repair is so important. Apple is trying to stop that every year by changing up procedures. Imagine if a hospital invented the cure for cancer and that hospital doesn't want the world to know how to do it, but instead charge you 10x what it would cost for it and prevent other people from helping you.
@@niklop2023 It's not the "same service" as the hospital next door, it's more like not being able to afford medication so you buy it on the black market from some guy in the back of an abandoned parking lot for 90% the price!
If you repair it the way Apple does, you wouldn't need all the tools in the video because the video shows the non-proper way of repairing the back glass
@@BraydenLaCorte you can repair it with a simple heat gun. Plenty of youtube videos showing it. This guy just wanted to flex with his fancy pants tools.
that's apple's intention, they make them hard to repair and refuse to sell any parts and only offer the legal minimum of official repairs at inflated prices to make you opt to buy a new one instead.
it means you are contribute to eco waste, apple is the first example of hypocrisy, they may recycle the products that actually never sell but most of unsell products is shredded and dispose to landfills.....
Right to repair is important, but ease of repair, if not mandated properly will lead to every company being forced to make worse devices. Only thing I can see useful right now is publicized schematics and using regular screws. There are things that need to be done for the sake of keeping a device simpler (and thus thinner), even if that means it is harder to repair.
@@NoThrottle what you described IS embracing ease of repair though. Companies like apple intentionally design things in ways to make it harder than it needs to be - idk if anyone still does them, but there used to be videos that would take apple products and then similar non-apple products and show every single design choice that had minimal benefits OTHER than making it difficult to repair. Simply embracing standard design principles and standard tools would fix 97% of the issues. It's not about making companies do anything special, but making them stop their intentional sabotage of repair advocates.
They are embracing the right to repair with their self repair program coming soon. but no matter what, people who support the right to repair will never be happy and will still protest about it because the truth is people want the right to repair within their budget!!!
Keep in mind you can repair many, many phones without expensive tools like his laser. Replacing front glass or screens, especially on Android phones is def possible DIY. *Repair*, reuse, reduce, recycle. If you cant/wont fix it, someone else will! Dont just toss out or give these to a recycle company as they still sit for years much of the time. Sell it on ebay if you have to to someone who can and will fix it! Don't just toss out electronics!!
A bit of clear tape would go sooo far in holding the glass and keeping it from flying.. the fiber laser is a nice idea.. but isopropyl alcohol would reduce that harsh brushing
@@fynkozari9271 You probably own a android with a plastic back a headphone jack and a replaceable battery and that’s fine it’s your choice. But with that you sacrifice repairability for a seamless design, and soon this may change since the materials are getting stronger. If you maybe were to hold the iPhone 12 you would understand it feels premium with the flat edges with stainless steel and a glass back.
@@techie_reviews overpriced garbage with ugly notch, with no repairability, thats what Apple gives you. The sharp rectangular design isnt suitable for human hand it leaves a dent on your hand. No android smartphone has that dumb design. Apple designed it like that so u cant repair it easily. They want you to buy a new overpriced phone, not repair it.
@@fynkozari9271 The sides look great, and if you actually hold it it’s grippy and not uncomfortable. Also it’s been 4 years of the notch and android users still cant get over it, the notch is not that bad and you get used to it. I would much rather have Face ID than not have a notch, and Apple also protects your privacy while google sells it for money.
"Man, a big problem with smartphones is the glass on the front cracking when you drop it! But at least the back is solid ..." Apple: "Well put it on both sides!"
@@Ass_of_Amalek everything inside your phone is screwed to the back and the glass is glued on, it's easier to unscrew the entire phone and put it back together on a new back with fresh glass.
@@Ass_of_Amalek also to clarify, Samsung phones are bolted to the screen and the back is replaceable. This makes a Samsung back repair vastly less complicated as a whole. Don't forget to take the little black camera glass sticker out when replacing the screen ;)
If only there was, like, a shell or something...perhaps a case...that could protect the phone to avoid this in the first place. Hopefully someone will invent one one day.
@@latinouncle8752 that won't happen as if drops, more chances for the internal to not work. I mean, after drops, the case is off, then battery is coming out. Then perhaps, it roll then hit internal component likes camera, processor, speaker. Phone nowadays not as tough as Nokia.
@UnjustifiedRecs yep my case broke down and first thing next few days some family members kid ran with my phone and dropped it and cracked the back glass. BUY BACKUP CASES
Finally some people realizing Apple is a scam. Also I love how Apple was being forced to use the standard micro usb chargers, so instead of complying to reduce their environmental impact, they decided to only make wireless charging their possibility, so you, the consumer, will have to go to apple to get their charger! Imagine how shitty of a policy you have to do this. Stop giving money
The first pass basically burns off the paint which is bonded to the glue. Also hope you are using the m triangle moulds now which means no more precise laser plans
My Motorola Droid Mini has wireless charging capabilities and it does not have back glass. Also I don't like the idea that he was gluing on the new back glass while he still had dust remnants of what he was scraping off, all around the phone. ??
@@tom0900060 what does your choice of operating system have to do with his comment about putting a case on his phone? I use iOS and don’t put a case on my phone and don’t break it.
@@christophercrawford2736 because if you break an android phone components are a lot more common than apple components thus why repairs are usually a lot cheaper for Androids and also apple is way out dated with their stuff and apple excuse is because we have to "apple cirtify it" or whatever that means Edit: also you get better bang for your bucks if you just buy an 400 dollar android phone since they still have very good specs for their price compared to having to pay a apple premium
@@TYPICALTRYHARD_ that’s actually the opposite in my experience. Perhaps it depends on the country you live in, but out of the 3 phone repair companies I’ve worked for, it was primarily iPhone. Many people would bring in their non-Apple phones and decide against service due to the limited availability of parts either making repairs expensive or time-consuming when factoring in time to order the part and have it delivered. For an Apple device I can run over to my local supplier and pick it up. Anything non-apple it would depend. We could pick up screens for Samsung S and Note pretty readily but the cost of those display panels was so high, we often didn’t do the repair because it was too expensive for the customer.
@@PotatoSoKawaii A lot of times I see people who are like "can't afford rent and not going to eat this week" who have the newest iphone YZ omega super or whatever that costs $1500. It's sad honestly.
It's not illegal but if they realise you have had your back glass changed, they can refuse you their services. But I don't think such things are noticeable easily, they'd have to look very closely and compare with another iPhone.
Looks good but it's a bit frightening to me that he's fixing the phone face down in the glass shards he scraped from the back. Unless the front glass is significantly harder, he's risking creating a lot of scratches in the front
Apple must spend 90% of their time designing ways for their phones to self-destruct or become obsolete/ unrepairable. The 10% remaining goes to their propaganda *coughs* uh I mean marketing department.
What really sucks about this the most is that unless you're one of the few apple authorized repair stores the new back glass won't have the apple logo on it because since it's a trademark apple can sue you for using a third party part with the logo in it.
You can't get official glass EVEN if you are an authorized repair store, you have to get it bootleg from china, just like the dude in this video did, suing chinese factories for trademarks is way harder anyway, they're sorta "protected" by their government.
People who never use cases and screen protectors on say their phones look better that way. Do phones with permanent scratches and broken glass look better than ones with cases though?
What they don’t say in the video is that the process would be much easier if Apple decided to use the same adhesive as their competitors instead of making their devices incredibly hard to repair.
Apple can't just use the same ways as competitors because the product was designed to be repaired ONE way. If Apple fixed it another way, their iPhones won't be water proof and would get sued and canceled for false advertising all because people are too cheep for Apple care/Apple care+.
@wow ye i know but small pieces of glass could be scattered all over the place and i was just curious of they protect the screen with some film or whatever to prevent it from scratching.
1:42 "When breaking off the back glass, we have to be super careful not the let the blade puncture through the phone." Well, then better keep using that extremely sharp and pointy scalpel tool instead of using, I don't know - even a small spoon would be a better option at this point?
I have a question which is a bit off topic. I am repairing a iPhone XS max with a broken front microphone. I have a lower end and back microphone laying around. Are all microphones the same, Or cant i change one for another?
it's ridiculous to me how difficult it is to remove the glass on the back, it's almost as if these phones weren't designed to be repaired, just replaced 🌚
they are Apple is so anti-third party repair that they deliberately make them like this so they can charge very high to replace an entire portion of the phone just to 'repair' it
I still don't get the idea of a back glass on smartphones, I mean the plastic is okay! Imagine cracking your phone's screen and back glass at the same time?
Thank you for sharing this, it was a pleasure working with you to make this happen!
The phone repair 👑👑
amazing work
@@glitterfairies6664 thank you!
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Haha Amazing Work Man I'm Impressed
Apple speaks volumes about cutting carbon emissions and yet their phones are unrepairable and doing repairs like this will void your warranty
"we say we're environmentally friendly but we're actually not but no one's going to care"
I work for the biggest phone repair company in Canada, we are authorized by Samsung, Apple, LG, Google and Huawei. And i gotta say the most phones we do repairs on are Samsungs and LGs. We do repair iPhones but its just regular stuff unlike Samsungs that have damaged PBAs, S’PBA batteries that stop working after a couple of months of purchase cameras. No network connection what so ever for no reason!! I’m just talking from experience Samsung makes great phones but the amount of bad parts in their phones that need to be repaired the whole time just gets annoying!
It's a slap on face of customer , rather than being sorry for worst quality n design that break so easily ,they actually charge people for faulty decision of apple which is to shove glass on pbone back when no rational person will ever want
@@sainaveenbali samsung, lg, hauwei one plus etc… all do the same! It just sounds like your butt hurt from something apple did to you or you had one bad experience even tho i really doubt that you ever owned an apple product. Apple does many things the way they want and they dont care about what people say, but you cant just single them out for something all companies do🤦🏽♂️
@@samiajji2392 Sami firstly let me begin by saying that I have used many phones you mentioned in the list and apple since iPhone 3. I see most of your life you have been judging people so quickly but that's not why I care to reply. The point is this, my friend. firstly yes I do agree that most of the companies are following apple way over the years but they still are very different in how they treat the customer. Compare a policy of repair of one plus with apple and you are most welcome to verify this
If the glass panel crack for one plus and they have their way to understand if the break happens from dropping phone or not, they replace or repair the phone free of cost, (absolutely free). Now for the same issue, let's say it cost iPhone 11 about INR 48k in India after all discounts. If your back panel glass cracks and they do sometimes if you just keep it in pocket and sit down, this is as told to me by apple genius, apple will charge you 70% of the MRP of the phone (not the price you paid after discount) even if the phone got a crack without any fault of the user within a week time of purchase. Now you may say get apple care, but even if you take apple care, you have to about INR 7k (call it GST ) so as customer yous till pay for something company should own its responsibility for poor/ brittle design. Had they been not putting such irrational prices of repair, you won't find entire world complaining about anti-competitive repair policy of apple. I can go on but i guess I made my point
I know this COVID thing is making people very restless and keyboard warriors. Hope the same is not happening to you. Have a great day my friend and no I am not butthurt at all. I do teach courses on anti-trust and am involved in public policy framework on these topics, so I know what is am saying, it's just that you don't expect to type it out all on the youtube comment section.
"surgeons precision"- proceeds to scrape indiscriminately
Have you seen how surgeons slice humans? Maybe they will change your mind about surgeons precision.
@@Layput good point
Lol have you seen how they amputate or put in screws?
The amount of retards who don't understand and try to define surgeon's precision are a dime a dozen
I was just going to say that lmfao 😂
I love how apple makes their adhesive so strong you have to laser it off so they can charge you $700 for a repair lmao
Nah they just replace the whole frame of your back of phone thats why it cost so much, the glass alone in my place indonesia is less than 40 bucks.
Just straight up apple try to milking every single penny of their loyal "smart" phone fans
I wouldn’t blame them for the strong adhesive, reason why my iphone 6s survived when I ran through heavy rain when we did trail running in the mountain. I also bring my phone during rainy runs and even holds it without cover lol so it’s always exposed to moist/water. My iphone 8 is 4 years old now and still working fine and I also have 11 pro which I now bring to my runs. Downside here is if you are clumsy and wouldn’t even cover a jelly case and screen protector on your phone. I already dropped my phones a hundred times and the only time I cracked my iphone 8 was when I put the opening pin inside the back case and accidentally slept on it. It’s just small crack but sucks lol
Na youn need a laser enough heat can do the job
@@kaederukawa8773 edgy, classic fandroid
Will never understand people not using phone cases.
I will never understand people wanting glass backs, especially since that basically mandates a case
I just don't drop my phone.
@@kassiepovinelli2881 mainly because of the look, the premium look, I personally don't care about glass backs, I don't even care what back of my phone has glass or plastic, I have the A52 5G and it's plastic
@@Ass_of_Amalek exactly
It screams I’m rich 🤑
First time back glass was on an iPhone was the iPhone 8? I could’ve sworn my iPhone 4 had back glass as well. Also this process seems like way too much trouble for what it’s worth. Just curious am I the only one. Either way it does look good once it’s all finished
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iphone 4 has a glass back that you can just slide off to swap it or the battery etc, no glue required. evidently that was too repairable for apple.
@@Ass_of_Amalek it was also too water-permeable for Apple.
First back glass that doesn’t just slide on and off :)
Putting adhesive without cleaning the table around with tiny glasses and old glue... It hurts.
Exactly! That doesn't look professional to me
Plus he didnt cover the camera lens , which might scratch accidentally during sanding or scratch by the glAss residue
Not to mention the metal bezel…
And no clamps for the new backglass glued…. Nothing profesionnal just another random repair shop not doîng the job
Yup, and also scratching the frame with the knife trying to get the glass off.
1:48 "We have to be super careful..."
Proceeds to ram the glass
I'm impressed by the skill to repair what is designed as a disposable product. Apple should better themselves.
They do not care
You're really pretty!
It’s what customers ultimately want. If apple would sell more phones making a repairable, thick phone with a back opening to replace the battery they would’ve done it. The average customer of any smart phone isn’t on a RUclips video about the repairability of a phone. We are not the average user.
The average user wants to just walk in, and come out with a fixed phone in a quick amount of time. They don’t care if their phone can get fixed if it’s gonna take like a week because they need their phone as quick as possible. A buddy of mine used to work in the apple store and he would always complain about how customers would throw a fit about an hour turn around time for their repair. Imagine if they did more relatively complex repairs like the video. At the volume of phones the stores have to repair combined with how much more intricate the repair is for this you would have a WAY longer turn around time. If customers are shitting their pants for just one hour imagine if they’re told they have to wait over a week.
@@jayespin i buy apple because i love the ecosystem, but i'd much prefer a model with more repairability if available. but i'm quite sure many buy apple because apple and nobody would care for a 1 or 2mm thicker product that could be repaired for cheaper. the industry just doesn't do it because it feels it doesn't need to. even though it could help the world reduce the amount of trash. it means less profit. only reason.
You don’t need a laser you can use a special heat gun it just takes a while longer
Sure looks like a nightmare repair.
Nah machines make it a lot easier than they seem
@@TYPICALTRYHARD_ yep, and Apple is still making it difficult
Yeah i Wonder Why They Didnt Just Replace The Back Frame For A New One
@@xrefed It's called a housing. And when you buy a new housing, you have to transfer all the parts from the cracked phone into the new housing. That's complicated. So repair shops just repair the back glass rather than a housing swap
I bet you Apple has an eye on this video and already trying to figure out how to block anyone from performing the repairs since Apple is such a TOOL when it comes to repairs from outside repair shops.
I like your motive but nah fam he works for Apple as a subsidiary to repair phones a great percentage of his earnings goes to Apple and he’s limited of what things he can say and do in this world is basically sell your soul… you guys should look into it
With iPhone 14 the back glass will probably be paired with the motherboard
Right to repair enters chat 😌
Basically that laser was a good investment.
There's a typo in the title ... it should read
"How Apple tries to prevent ANYONE from being able to repair their phones for a reasonable price and instead push people to buy a brand new device by claiming the cost is too high because their own engineering made it that way."
it's easier to create electronics than to repair them, just like it's easier to create new humans than to keep 1 immortal
The reason I have a mi 11
@@harithsami843 did you even read what the comment said
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 that's the way it is now because of how companies design their products. John Deere is getting a lot of heat because they made it so farmers basically can't repair their own tractors without calling techs for software stuff. Farmers would rather have 30 year old repairable equipment than unrepairable new equipment.
Yeah it's called planned obsolescence. I don't mind companies doing that to stay profitable, but the fact that Apple actively discourages Right to Repair, causing tons of e-waste, while simultaneously branding themselves as a 'environmental-friendly' company or some bs really fires me up.
Right to repair is so important. Apple is trying to stop that every year by changing up procedures.
Imagine if a hospital invented the cure for cancer and that hospital doesn't want the world to know how to do it, but instead charge you 10x what it would cost for it and prevent other people from helping you.
People are already doing that with cancer it’s trillions of dollars. Why cure it?
Apple is already draining so much money how much more do they need? 💀
Except apple is more like a hospital that can offer the same services as the hospital next door, but make you overpay
just because you can't afford Apple's repairs, doesn't mean you have to bit** about repairs the cost the same as your Mcdonald's paycheck!
@@niklop2023 It's not the "same service" as the hospital next door, it's more like not being able to afford medication so you buy it on the black market from some guy in the back of an abandoned parking lot for 90% the price!
the fact that you even need sutch tools to fix it just shows how anti repair apple is
Apple replace the whole phone housing, but someone worked out that you can do this
If you repair it the way Apple does, you wouldn't need all the tools in the video because the video shows the non-proper way of repairing the back glass
@@BraydenLaCorte you can repair it with a simple heat gun. Plenty of youtube videos showing it. This guy just wanted to flex with his fancy pants tools.
@@crisnmaryfam7344 I wasn't talking about the heat gun.
You know a lot of different phones do the same thing, right? But yeah, let’s not focus on those. They aren’t apple after all.
these are so interesting to watch idk why
Prolly the music and voices
Agreed
Thank you!!
It's more satisfying and interesting when hands on
Same here.
How i professionally restore my iphone: i buy a new one.
Add an un to your professionalism
that's apple's intention, they make them hard to repair and refuse to sell any parts and only offer the legal minimum of official repairs at inflated prices to make you opt to buy a new one instead.
That why android is better
it means you are contribute to eco waste, apple is the first example of hypocrisy, they may recycle the products that actually never sell but most of unsell products is shredded and dispose to landfills.....
They recycle the old ones, or refurbish them. Probably sell them to other markets for cheaper.
Apple needs to embrace not just right to repair,but EASE if repair.
Right to repair is important, but ease of repair, if not mandated properly will lead to every company being forced to make worse devices. Only thing I can see useful right now is publicized schematics and using regular screws. There are things that need to be done for the sake of keeping a device simpler (and thus thinner), even if that means it is harder to repair.
@@NoThrottle what you described IS embracing ease of repair though. Companies like apple intentionally design things in ways to make it harder than it needs to be - idk if anyone still does them, but there used to be videos that would take apple products and then similar non-apple products and show every single design choice that had minimal benefits OTHER than making it difficult to repair.
Simply embracing standard design principles and standard tools would fix 97% of the issues.
It's not about making companies do anything special, but making them stop their intentional sabotage of repair advocates.
They are embracing the right to repair with their self repair program coming soon. but no matter what, people who support the right to repair will never be happy and will still protest about it because the truth is people want the right to repair within their budget!!!
If u go to an apple repair shop instead: That would be $800 pls
It’s 300 bucks everywhere
tbh if you are buying an iphone pro max and dont get applecare to safeguard your phone you are a muppet.
Well if apple repairs it they just throw away the old phone and send a new one to you.
Keep in mind you can repair many, many phones without expensive tools like his laser. Replacing front glass or screens, especially on Android phones is def possible DIY. *Repair*, reuse, reduce, recycle.
If you cant/wont fix it, someone else will! Dont just toss out or give these to a recycle company as they still sit for years much of the time. Sell it on ebay if you have to to someone who can and will fix it!
Don't just toss out electronics!!
You can just replace the entire housing rather than using a laser machine
You don't know how phones are repaired so you just assume crap and act naive.
factory reset your phone and sell it, is that a good tip?
A bit of clear tape would go sooo far in holding the glass and keeping it from flying.. the fiber laser is a nice idea.. but isopropyl alcohol would reduce that harsh brushing
*Back when JerryRigEverything was the only baller to bring this to the public.*
Thought zach is in the video
What a dumb phone design by a dumb company.
@@fynkozari9271 You probably own a android with a plastic back a headphone jack and a replaceable battery and that’s fine it’s your choice. But with that you sacrifice repairability for a seamless design, and soon this may change since the materials are getting stronger. If you maybe were to hold the iPhone 12 you would understand it feels premium with the flat edges with stainless steel and a glass back.
@@techie_reviews overpriced garbage with ugly notch, with no repairability, thats what Apple gives you. The sharp rectangular design isnt suitable for human hand it leaves a dent on your hand. No android smartphone has that dumb design. Apple designed it like that so u cant repair it easily. They want you to buy a new overpriced phone, not repair it.
@@fynkozari9271 The sides look great, and if you actually hold it it’s grippy and not uncomfortable. Also it’s been 4 years of the notch and android users still cant get over it, the notch is not that bad and you get used to it. I would much rather have Face ID than not have a notch, and Apple also protects your privacy while google sells it for money.
"Man, a big problem with smartphones is the glass on the front cracking when you drop it! But at least the back is solid ..."
Apple: "Well put it on both sides!"
10/10
1:43
"When breaking off the back glass we have to be super careful not to let the blade puncture through the phone"
Me: Slow down buddy!
Him: *stabs the phone and flings glass shards*
I was thinking the same 😂
As a repair tech we just replaced the whole frame, cheaper, easier and less work.
so that glass IS on a part that you can just slide off?
@@Ass_of_Amalek no you don’t slide the frame off. Everything is screwed and adhered down.
@@Ass_of_Amalek everything inside your phone is screwed to the back and the glass is glued on, it's easier to unscrew the entire phone and put it back together on a new back with fresh glass.
Same here dude, almost ez money
@@Ass_of_Amalek also to clarify, Samsung phones are bolted to the screen and the back is replaceable. This makes a Samsung back repair vastly less complicated as a whole. Don't forget to take the little black camera glass sticker out when replacing the screen ;)
If only there was, like, a shell or something...perhaps a case...that could protect the phone to avoid this in the first place. Hopefully someone will invent one one day.
👍😅.....HOPE THEY INVENT PHONE CASE TO PROTECT THE PHONE!?
I don’t think our brains are developed enough to invent such a mind-blowing and extraordinary invention! It’s out of this world indeed..
Something like that sounds too good to be true, maybe when we have the technology in 3021 we could perhaps dream of it
@@latinouncle8752 that won't happen as if drops, more chances for the internal to not work. I mean, after drops, the case is off, then battery is coming out. Then perhaps, it roll then hit internal component likes camera, processor, speaker. Phone nowadays not as tough as Nokia.
@UnjustifiedRecs yep my case broke down and first thing next few days some family members kid ran with my phone and dropped it and cracked the back glass. BUY BACKUP CASES
Pretty huge Baumgartner polyurethane scraping vibes coming off of this video
YESSS, his 40 minutes video of scraping ASMR is soo soothing 😩
Asmr compilations of thus could prove to be very lucrative
I’ve made several :)
Mostly apple will employ this guy at a far salary , may not give any work , just to blunt him
Meanwhile here I'm crying, replace those back glass without laser tool 🥲
Been there 🥲
Haha. It's almost as if Apple designed their products to be more difficult to repair each time! But they'd never do that, right? Right guys?
This is not restoring the glass.. this is literally replacing the glass..
Restoring the phone
It is what it is
Thank you for the update, Insider..!! Wow, the repaired phones look amazing..!!
Any reason to not putting clear tape over the glass ? It makes the process of removing it so much easier/cleaner
As a techie, I think it’s very satisfying and awesome to see back glass replacement
Finally some people realizing Apple is a scam. Also I love how Apple was being forced to use the standard micro usb chargers, so instead of complying to reduce their environmental impact, they decided to only make wireless charging their possibility, so you, the consumer, will have to go to apple to get their charger! Imagine how shitty of a policy you have to do this. Stop giving money
The first pass basically burns off the paint which is bonded to the glue. Also hope you are using the m triangle moulds now which means no more precise laser plans
My Motorola Droid Mini has wireless charging capabilities and it does not have back glass. Also I don't like the idea that he was gluing on the new back glass while he still had dust remnants of what he was scraping off, all around the phone. ??
He tried to make it sounds hard with "precision" as we watch the phone just be destroyed and picked apart randomly with a knife and brush
If mine cracks imma leave it like that , this seems hella expensive
This is why i do not play about putting a heavy duty protective case on my iphone because i know how clumsy i am.
I believe that's called a nokification case.
That's why I use android!
@@tom0900060 what does your choice of operating system have to do with his comment about putting a case on his phone? I use iOS and don’t put a case on my phone and don’t break it.
@@christophercrawford2736 because if you break an android phone components are a lot more common than apple components thus why repairs are usually a lot cheaper for Androids and also apple is way out dated with their stuff and apple excuse is because we have to "apple cirtify it" or whatever that means
Edit: also you get better bang for your bucks if you just buy an 400 dollar android phone since they still have very good specs for their price compared to having to pay a apple premium
@@TYPICALTRYHARD_ that’s actually the opposite in my experience. Perhaps it depends on the country you live in, but out of the 3 phone repair companies I’ve worked for, it was primarily iPhone. Many people would bring in their non-Apple phones and decide against service due to the limited availability of parts either making repairs expensive or time-consuming when factoring in time to order the part and have it delivered. For an Apple device I can run over to my local supplier and pick it up. Anything non-apple it would depend. We could pick up screens for Samsung S and Note pretty readily but the cost of those display panels was so high, we often didn’t do the repair because it was too expensive for the customer.
Support the "Right to Repair" along with Louis Rossman.
Can you please provide a link to the specific laser you use/bought - where to get it? Thank you!
Why this professional worker don't use camera glass protection?
If you have to scrape the broken glass off what was the laser for?
this is kinda like doing a surgery on an iphone
5:56 the removal of adhesive on 12 pro max was so satisfying
Imagine dropping your 1200+ phone lmao
Imagine buying apple and paying an apple premium
@@TYPICALTRYHARD_ people like that can afford em so they could care less
@@PotatoSoKawaii A lot of times I see people who are like "can't afford rent and not going to eat this week" who have the newest iphone YZ omega super or whatever that costs $1500. It's sad honestly.
Imagine spending 1200 on a phone
@@caspernicus5822 damn
I'm just curious. Where did you learn how to do this?
Watching crack iPhone hurts my wallet even I didn’t bought those
2:22
The iPhone 4 (s) and 7 had glass backs too. The 3G (s) and 5c had plastic backs.
4:40
Why not do multiple runs? I have seen others do this.
It's both excruciating and pleasant to watch at the same time..
Be not afraid, they're professionals.
It should be illegal to make something so expensive this difficult to fix
Isn't this illegal according to Apple?
apple is illegal according to the rest of us, so...
Fortunately Apple don’t have the power to make laws although it would invalidate any warranty.
This guy would no doubt be cheaper than Apple for an out of warranty repair though!
It's not illegal but if they realise you have had your back glass changed, they can refuse you their services. But I don't think such things are noticeable easily, they'd have to look very closely and compare with another iPhone.
Technically it's is for apple but since you bought it and own that device you can do anything with it under your own discretion
‘Surgeons Precision’ - Continues on to brush wildly
Looks like in all three phones coils are going to be fked up
when he talks about surgical precision and then uses those metal objects it feels like listening to the audio of another video
Yeah Apple doesn’t want other people repairing their stuff so this guy either has some contract with Apple or has a really good parts provider.
What do you think, do you sugest getting the MacBook Air m1 now or should I wait for the next MacBook Air thats probably dropping this year
Looks good but it's a bit frightening to me that he's fixing the phone face down in the glass shards he scraped from the back. Unless the front glass is significantly harder, he's risking creating a lot of scratches in the front
Hi I'm wondering what glass u purchase because in the past I have bought glass and never lasts as long or as strong as original..
Lesson learned - Always have a phone holder in the back of your phone.
I'd buy an iPhone that came with a transparent glass back, showing all the internals. Kind of like that industrial look.
Apple must spend 90% of their time designing ways for their phones to self-destruct or become obsolete/ unrepairable. The 10% remaining goes to their propaganda *coughs* uh I mean marketing department.
Self destruct? *Note 7 has entered chat*
@@peppapigthekiller7539 lol! Yes indeed haha.
Can you please share the link of the replacing back glass?
apple watching this video be like
CALL MY LAWYER TO SUE THE STORE
What About all the paintdust and small glas sharts which enter the phone via small gaps in the frame?
What really sucks about this the most is that unless you're one of the few apple authorized repair stores the new back glass won't have the apple logo on it because since it's a trademark apple can sue you for using a third party part with the logo in it.
You can't get official glass EVEN if you are an authorized repair store, you have to get it bootleg from china, just like the dude in this video did, suing chinese factories for trademarks is way harder anyway, they're sorta "protected" by their government.
This is for mostly every company, funny enough, Samsung is the same haha
People who never use cases and screen protectors on say their phones look better that way.
Do phones with permanent scratches and broken glass look better than ones with cases though?
What they don’t say in the video is that the process would be much easier if Apple decided to use the same adhesive as their competitors instead of making their devices incredibly hard to repair.
Apple can't just use the same ways as competitors because the product was designed to be repaired ONE way. If Apple fixed it another way, their iPhones won't be water proof and would get sued and canceled for false advertising all because people are too cheep for Apple care/Apple care+.
Quit brown nosing brayden
How do people use their phones? Like do you drop it every minute or what?
Maybe now some people will understand why it costs so much to fix a phone.
Or atleast iPhones. Generally some are still repair friendly, tho the market is dwindling
That looks so SATISFYING!
This is not How to restored a glass of an iPhone, but is How to make an asmr
I feel like putting the new backs on whilst the phone is face down, in the remains of the previouse backs glass is shocking.
Such a satisfying video!
The brown disc in the first one has a crack in it. Does that not ruin its performance?
Thank you Apple for creating jobs in repairing sector.
What about the front screens while doing all this work? And the metal rails? Are they scratched? How are they protected?
@wow ye i know but small pieces of glass could be scattered all over the place and i was just curious of they protect the screen with some film or whatever to prevent it from scratching.
These kinds of damage scare me because i am so abusive with my iphones and have never gotten more than a tiny crack… how do people manage worse?!
Idk if this can affect wireless charging but can’t they just keep glass for the magsafe circle and just keep aluminum outside the wireless charging
1:42 "When breaking off the back glass, we have to be super careful not the let the blade puncture through the phone."
Well, then better keep using that extremely sharp and pointy scalpel tool instead of using, I don't know - even a small spoon would be a better option at this point?
He uses a scalpel to pry up the razor sharp glass shards. You don't know how to repair phones so stop acting so naive
I'm still confused as to why Apple says "we can't repair that, you'll have to buy another one" and I'm just seeing this💀
Glass in the back of the phone is the best idea ever to get more money from costumers😂
I have a question which is a bit off topic. I am repairing a iPhone XS max with a broken front microphone. I have a lower end and back microphone laying around. Are all microphones the same, Or cant i change one for another?
it's oddly satisfying
iphone:You go to another place to repair the backglass,instead of apple stores, your warranty is voided.
Android Phones: just pop and done.
Plastic can also be used for wireless charging, Phone companies use glass so that you can break it and buy a new phone.
My Samsung with plastic back: I don't have such weaknesses.
This man is doing God’s work I promise you. Lol. All those poor broken phones out there 😂
Great attention to detail. He repairs them as if they are his own phone.
Why get back glass? You’re practically asking for your phone to shatter 😬
Almost looks like an another level.
The circle piece on my iPhone was scratched removing the glass will the phone still work?
it's ridiculous to me how difficult it is to remove the glass on the back, it's almost as if these phones weren't designed to be repaired, just replaced 🌚
they are
Apple is so anti-third party repair that they deliberately make them like this so they can charge very high to replace an entire portion of the phone just to 'repair' it
title: how back glass is restored
in video: *starts cracking it*
Tele looks like awesome company to me - it keeps RIGHT TO REPAIR alive!
thank you for sharing this now I feel like there is glass shards on my floor
I still don't get the idea of a back glass on smartphones, I mean the plastic is okay!
Imagine cracking your phone's screen and back glass at the same time?
Glass is more premium. It’s more scratch resistant. It lasts longer
7:43 behind his thumb probably there are some cracks very smart move 👍
All this is too much work for me. I’d just swap housing entirely at that point 😪
The glass probably break in microscopic level every time before it finally really breaks