The iPhone repair movie that Apple made for internal use leaks, proving the high level of iFixit's technical capabilities

Eleven movies are suddenly uploaded on YouTube, thinking that they are being used to lecture internal repair methods of iPhone / iMac / MacBook such as iPhone / iMac / MacBook.

Someone Uploaded What's to Be Apple's Internal iPhone Repair Videos - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmvjv/someone-uploaded-what-look-to-be-apples-internal-iphone-repair-videos

Apple does not want customers or third-party repairers to repair their devices, and in the past when you replaced home buttons with third-party ones, the device was locked or the display panel was made by a third party A situation such as touch operation becoming impossible when exchanging was occurred.

Still there are a certain number of layers that repair Apple terminals independently, use tools sold by repair companies such as iFixit to disassemble the iPhone or MacBook and replace the internal components, or replace the coverslip broken I am exchanging it. Meanwhile, it was discovered that on a certain YouTube channel , Apple thinks it is being used internally and that "a movie to lecture a method for repairing iPhone and other devices" has been uploaded.

Motherboard who reported the existence of the movie seems to ask Apple for comment, but he seems to have not received reply. However, Motherboard wrote that confirmation was obtained from information sources in the repair industry that are familiar with Apple's repair policy, that the published movie is for lectures that Apple uses internally I will. Actually, in the movie, I think that Apple is using it inside the company, documents and diagnostic tests are referenced, and also the presence of disassembly and repair tools Apple uses inside the company can be confirmed.

The 11 movies published on YouTube are as follows.

A movie that explains how to remove the cover glass and display panel of iPhone X and access the inside.

Apple Internal - iPhone X Open Device - YouTube


Movie to replace battery inside iPhone X.

Apple Internal - iPhone X Battery - YouTube


A movie showing a method of exchanging Taptic Engin which performs fine feedback by vibration such as 3D Touch function of iPhone X.

Apple Internal - iPhone X Taptic Engine - YouTube


iPhone X's powerful rear dual camera replacement method.

Apple Internal - iPhone X Camera - YouTube


How to replace iPhone X speakers.

Apple Internal - iPhone X Speaker - YouTube


The movie explains how to exchange iPhone display and calibrate 3D Touch. It takes about 15 minutes to calibrate using dedicated software and equipment.

Apple Internal - Display Replacement and 3D Touch Calibration - YouTube


Many movies about Apple terminals other than iPhone are released.

A method of system setting when repairing and exchanging the logic board and flash storage of iMac Pro that appeared in 2017.

Apple Internal - iMac Pro 2017 System Configuration after a Logic Board or Flash Storage Repair - YouTube


How to remove the iMac Pro display panel.

Apple Internal - iMac Pro 2017 Display Panel - YouTube


2016 · A movie that explains the tool for moving customer data of MacBook Pro that appeared in 2017.

Apple Internal - MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017 Customer Data Migration Tool - YouTube


How to calibrate the pressure-sensitive trackpad "Force Touch" on MacBook.

Apple Internal - Force Touch Trackpad Calibration Check - YouTube


A movie that explains how to attach and detach dedicated modules from MacBook Pro equipped with Touch ID.

Apple Internal - MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017 Touch ID Board - YouTube


Arman Haji who uploaded the movie on YouTube said to Motherboard, "By accidentally discovering a movie by chance, downloading these from curiosity and uploading it to YouTube as thought that many people would see it" .

Motherboard says that movies of accessing the interior of the iPhone X and replacing the battery are particularly interesting, "The DIY repair community got Apple's official reverse engineering movie." In addition, the procedure to dismantle the iPhone X in the movie has pointed out that it is very similar to the procedure published by iFixit and others, especially the method of replacing the battery is "iPhone X battery exchange method "It is a procedure very similar to the movie.

The following is an iPhone X battery exchange movie released by iFixit, in a movie that Apple thinks it is using in the company "It seems like peeling off as we take up the adhesive fixing the battery to the case part "Has been reproduced in the same way. As a matter of course, iFixit does not manage these movies, but it seems to have devised this method independently from the experience value of repairing Apple terminals for many years.

iPhone X Battery Replacement - How To - YouTube


Motherboard says, "What I can not believe here is not Apple 's internal movie leaked out, a third - party repairman (iFixit) dismantled without watching these movies or accessing Apple tools It's been an incredible job of duplicating the procedure, "praising the high level of iFixit's reverse engineering technology.