Either you spend a lot of money on repairing the iPhone 13, or you lose a key function

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Repairing an iPhone at an official service is not cheap. In the case of smartphones from the iPhone 13 series, however, it may be necessary if their owners do not want to lose access to a key function that allows them to use e.g. with Apple Pay.

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MacBook Pro gives you...

Apple products have never been known for being easy to fix. Especially the previous generation of laptops for professionals, which featured the infamous butterfly keyboard, could be considered synonymous with disposable products. Suffice it to say that specialists from iFixit gave the MacBook Pro 16 with an Intel processor a rating of 1/10, where 1 is the most difficult to repair and 10 is the easiest.

The latest generation of MacBooks, however, could promise an improvement in this matter. iFixit leaned over the latest laptop from Apple and gave it a rating of 4/10. Still far from perfect, but service technicians appreciated the ease of replacing the battery, extending the tapes connecting the screen with the motherboard and the ability to replace almost all ports in the device - the exception is the HDMI output and the SD card slot.

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Unfortunately, one swallow of spring doesn't does. And just as Apple looked kinder at repairing MacBooks, it has been consistently making changes to its smartphones for several years that make them more and more difficult to repair.

According to iFixit, the iPhone 13 will work after replacing the screen in an unauthorized service, but without Face ID. This is really bad news for Apple independent repair shops, as display replacement is one of the most common services these types of services provide.

Unfortunately, for them and their customers to be able to repair the iPhone 13 series smartphone, they have to make a decision: whether to spend a lot of money on new micro-soldering equipment or say goodbye to a significant part of their income. This technology is necessary so that the entire process does not deactivate Face ID.

The video below shows exactly how complicated the iPhone 13 screen replacement process is. Certainly its complexity will prevent most users from repairing it themselves, and many will force them to use the services of an authorized Apple service center, which charges much more for replacing the display than this one unofficial without certificate.

Apple has been making it difficult to repair its products outside of the official path for years. This one is usually very expensive, but now the only alternative may be either a cheaper replacement of the glass by an unauthorized repair point, most likely involving the loss of Face ID, or simply reconciling with a broken screen.

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