The iPhone 15 sequence acquired iFixit’s official teardown remedy and the outcomes are a combined bag. The 15 Professional fashions lastly acquired the up to date inner design the place now you can straight take away the again glass with out eradicating the show first. The inner parts on the Professional fashions are nonetheless hidden behind the display as an alternative of the again glass like on the vanilla iPhone 15 and the 15 Plus. The large change with the 15 Professional fashions is that the again glass is now detachable so cracked again repairs ought to will likely be quicker and simpler.
iPhone 15 Professional Max
There’s one main caveat although as Apple continues to impose software program limitations by pairing particular parts and elements to every iPhone making third-party repairs and even real part swaps that rather more tough. iFixit lately demoted the iPhone 14 all the way down to a 4/10 repairability rating retroactively over the part-pairing limitation and the iPhone 15 fashions all earn the identical rating with a do-not-recommend score.
Wanting on the course of in additional element, the 15 Professional and 15 Professional Max open from the entrance or again however their inner parts are hidden behind the display similar to all iPhones earlier than the iPhone 14. The large change with the 15 Professional fashions is that the again glass is now detachable so cracked again repairs ought to will likely be quicker and simpler. Needless to say Apple nonetheless pairs every glass again to the corresponding machine so repairs will should be validated through Apple’s System Configuration device.
iFixit even ran a pairing check between two an identical iPhone 15 Professional Max items to see which half swaps would work and a lot of the parts wouldn’t work or would ship out warnings.
The 15 Professional Max incorporates a 17.1 Wh battery and the principle and ultrawide digicam sensors seem like the identical measurement as on the 14 Professional Max. We additionally get to see Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X70 modem which handles 5G connectivity. The iPhone 15 Professional Max makes use of SK Hynix DDR5 reminiscence which is subsequent to the A17 Professional chipset on the principle board.
You possibly can watch the total iPhone 15 Professional Max teardown under.
