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today Apple released a brand-new iPhone 7 this goes hand-in-hand with their product redline that donates a portion of the profits to AIDS and HIV program with the hopes that eventually we will have an aids-free generation charity is always a good thing especially from one of the largest businesses in the world when you buy the product read iPhone it comes to white screen and while that does look pretty darn good I think a black combination would look even more dope let's give it a try I turn the phone completely off and then remove the bottom two silver pentalobe screws while I don't recommend attempting this project yourself since it is pretty difficult I will be linking all the tools and replacement parts that you might need in the video description as we know the iPhone is water resistant which means there is a thin band of adhesive running around the edge onto the screen I'm going to use a heat gun to one of the glass until it's just barely too hot to touch then I'll use a large suction cup to lift up the edge of the screen enough to slip my thin metal pry tool between the plastic edge of the screen and the blood-red metal body of the phone now this part is kind of tricky is where most people will damage their displays there are some very fragile ribbon cables along that right side of the phone so as you are cutting through the adhesive it's important to keep the tool from penetrating too deep inside of the phone and slicing that important stuff you also can't lift the bottom edge of the screen very high or I'll put stress on the ribbons as well you'll see what I'm talking about in just a second the screen comes away from the device by pulling down ever so slightly on the display to release the top clip and then the whole thing folds open like a little book a very good-looking red book I think the inside of this thing looks better than the outside the anodized red color coating is all throughout the device and not just the exterior I'm definitely a fan so the nice step I'll switch to my white triple-zero bit since Apple likes to use weird screws inside of their phones there are four screws holding down the metal plate over the battery connector fingerprint connector and LCD ribbon connector I'll set that off to the side next to the screws to help keep them organized now we need a Phillips head double zero screwdriver for the top screws next to the earpiece and front camera if you think it's weird that Apple has three separate screw types inside of their phone you're not alone I think it's pretty strange as well after the two screws on the top bracket are off I can unclip the front camera and the earpiece ribbon and the screen is free from the iPhone body now depending on where you get your screen from there might be a few more steps if you buy the replacement screen link in the video description you'll have to transfer over your earpiece back metal plate and home button to your new screen I show that in my iPhone 7 screen replacement video for the sake of time though for this video I'll be using a screen and a home button that I pulled off a fully functioning matte black iPhone 7 it's already got all the components attached to it so it's a direct swap and slightly easier i'll start by plugging in the ribbon cables from the black screen there are two down by the battery and then one more up at the top each of them will clip in like a little Lego make sure to plug the battery cable in very last it's safer that way the two metal plates go over the top of little connections and then the six screws hold everything tight remember each screw is different so keep them organized and put them back in the same hole that came from the phone will fold shut just like a very expensive book and then the top edge of the screen gets tucked up into place before the rest of the display clicks down I'm going to use the black screws that I pulled from my other black iPhone 7 for a cleaner look replacement screws are also pretty easy to find I'll link some below the video as well and it's time to turn our ultra good looking one-of-a-kind cell phone on and here's where we run into the first problem Apple has a thing where if you ever need to fix or replace your home button they just kill the functionality of it all together it's incredibly frustrating from a repair perspective but that's a story for a different day apple claims it's for security reasons which is valid but there are other ways to protect your device besides killing functionality the last warning that popped up was to tell me that I have to use the on screen home button now instead of the physical button and that's kind of annoying while I love the look of the all black on red I'm not about to lose functionality solely for aesthetics it's time to reinstall the original home button the white one the iPhones and their home buttons are paired at birth and remain together for the entire duration of their lives like some kind of weird National Geographic documentary instead of a cell phone to remove a home button there are four screws and then the home button unsticks from the plastic frame and drops out from the front of the phone then I'll have to do is tuck the white home button back up into place on the black screen and then use the same screws to hold it in and that's it to the home button it's still definitely white but this time it's functional and there are no error messages now one way around this would be to take the mainboard from the black iPhone and blow but into the red frame that way the black home button would remain paired together with the black screen but I would recommend against that because the more components you remove from the phone the higher chance you have of something breaking and going wrong and it never working again when you put it back together I might compare this project to Legos during the video but it's slightly higher risk than that the simplest solution is to just get a small black skin and put it over the white home button incredibly inexpensive and at least the skin isn't covering the whole display now I don't have any skins at the moment but I know a guy who does I'm going to send this phone over to mkbhd to let him work his magic on that home button the phone is his to keep or give away totally up to him what color combination do you think looks best do you like the white screen or do you think Apple should have made a black and red iPhone variant let me know in the comments luckily I was able to grab two of these red phones I'll be testing the scratch resistance of the new color in my next video so if you haven't subscribed now it'd be a good time my Twitter followers got the inside look at this phone as it was happening so follow me over there to stay ahead of the curve and thanks for watching I'll see you around you