iPhone 8
First iPhone with a glass back and a home button paired to its logic board.
By model
Fifteen models with something of their own to say: an acknowledged design fault, an Apple service programme or a repair quirk that changes the answer. If yours isn’t here, its family is.
4,6 out of 5 · 138 reviews on GoogleOur catalogue holds 122 models and this section has 15. The gap is deliberate: a model only gets a page if we can write something about it that wouldn’t read the same for the model next to it.
In practice that comes down to two cases. Either it has a publicly documented design fault, almost always with an Apple service programme behind it. Or repairing it carries a real quirk — soldered storage, memory inside the chip, glass that can be swapped without touching the panel — that alters what we can tell you when you bring it in.
Every claim on these pages can be checked, and every page links to its source. What you won’t find is a price or a turnaround time: that depends on the actual condition of your device, and we give you a fixed one after we’ve seen it, not before.
First iPhone with a glass back and a home button paired to its logic board.
Apple acknowledged a display module fault that causes phantom touches.
It introduced the non-genuine display alert on the lock screen and the loss of True Tone.
The display is serialised: for months a swap disabled Face ID until iOS 15.2 fixed it.
Redesigned around a midframe: the back panel comes off, which the 14 Pro cannot do.
Glass and LCD are not laminated together: only the broken half needs replacing.
Apple publicly acknowledged that a slight chassis curve came from the manufacturing process.
It is the last MacBook Air with a socketed SSD: it can genuinely be upgraded.
It introduced the butterfly keyboard Apple ended up covering with a service programme.
It collected two Apple service programmes: one for the keyboard and one for the display backlight.
With the T2 the SSD is soldered and encrypted, and Apple dropped the port that rescued data.
The memory sits inside the M1 package and the storage is soldered: none of it can be upgraded.
The display is bonded and opens by cutting adhesive, but the memory has a door of its own.
Its memory sits in sockets and can be upgraded on the bench, which no later Mac mini allows.
Apple opened a programme for cracks that appeared on their own at the screen edge.
That’s fine: we still repair it. No page just means it’s repaired the same way as the rest of its generation, and everything worth knowing is on its family page.
Publishing a hundred identical pages with the model name swapped would be easier and would work worse, for you and for us. We’d rather have fifteen pages that say something.
If you’d rather go by the work involved than by the model you own, these are the pages for each service.
Screen, battery, camera, charging port, liquid damage and back glass.
Won’t turn on, screen, battery, keyboard, liquid damage, SSD and RAM upgrades.
Screen and battery replacement, charging port and bent chassis.
Lifted or cracked screen, swollen battery and charging problems.
Logic board repair at chip level: no power, no charge, no image, boot loop.
Photos and documents from dead devices, damaged drives or accidental deletion.
Tell us what’s wrong and we’ll tell you what it is, what it costs and how long it takes. No obligation, and the initial diagnosis is free.
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