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Apple has been trying pretty hard to keep people out of their phones Steve Jobs himself said he didn't want people fiddling around inside the iPhone which is why they've all been sealed shut and hard to repair from day one but that's never stopped us before it's time to open up the brand new iPhone 10's max and see what new obstacles Apple is placed in our way this video has been sponsored by audible let's get started grab some popcorn this video might be a long one turning the phone off is done with a volume button and power button combo press kind of exciting then we encountered the proprietary pentalobe screw Apple implemented back with the iPhone 4s the inexpensive toolkit I'll link in the description includes all the bits you'll need for this phone repair Apple uses four different styles of screw this time around and they're all different sizes I'm keeping everything super organized so hopefully it'll all go back together in one piece and turn on when I'm done opening up the phone is easy enough a large suction cup helps Apple has upgraded their water resistance to ip68 this year finally matching the rating Samsung's had for the past two years you can see the stringy black waterproofing adhesive holding the screen to the metal phone body it's kind of all over the place remember there's a lot of things that can be damaged inside an iPhone so I'm taking special care to insert only the tip of my tool inside the screen is lashed up at the top and needs to be pulled down ever so slightly before folding open like a book the ribbon cables along the right side are the main thing to avoid while opening any stress or Nick's on those cables would ruin the display and we just don't want that to remove the screen Apple added an obstacle with seven uncommon flimsy try point why triple zero screws luckily my tool kit comes with all these hard to find bits already included I'll set the different size screws right next to the bracket they came from that way things stay organized before I unplug that crazy dual cell l-shaped battery though Dustin one of my buddies tweeted that if you feel like the dumbest person in a room then you're in the correct room this was one of the reasons I chose to read astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson this week huge thanks to audible for sponsoring this video if you want an incredibly detailed intellectual description of the universe and how all the elements exploded into a distance like the lithium inside this iPhone battery astrophysics for people in a hurry is it worthwhile listen you can get your free copy with a 30-day trial of audible using the code jerry-rigged I'll link it in the description or just go to audible.com slash jerry-rigged texting the word jerry-rigged to 500 500 works to je r ry RI g even if you cancel your audible subscription you still get to keep all your books astrophysics might sound complicated but it's an incredibly interesting summary about our place in the cosmos and like I said earlier if you feel like the dumbest person in the room you're in the right room don't forgive let's unplug that battery and get the screen off one Lego style connector for the battery and each of the three ribbons attached to the screen has their own Lego style connectors as well then the whole screen can pull away from the foam body super simple Apple screens are much easier to replace than they used to be with only three more screws holding on to the front earpiece there are no home buttons or fragile fingerprint scanner cables that we have to worry about now everything just kind of folds out at the top of the screen like some funky origami a link replacement parts in the video description as they become available I'll get everything pressed back into place and even though I did need special screwdriver bits a screen replacement is a pretty simple process things only start getting super complicated in the iPhone XS max when I dig deeper into the phone I'll set the screen off to the side it's time to remove the battery Apple was nice enough to include the magic pull tabs holding in each half of the battery one massive pull tab up top and three other magic pull-tabs under the bottom segment once all the pull tabs are removed there's nothing else holding the battery in place so make sure it doesn't get away from you batteries can be super dangerous if punctured the combined power of both cells in this battery has 3,100 milliamp hours about 22 percent smaller than the Samsung Note 9 but who's keeping track there's nothing else super easy to replace inside of this phone which is mostly fine since the screen and battery are usually the first things that go out or break on a smartphone we'll talk about the back glass replacement in a second first let's pull out the rear camera units with two Phillips head screws holding down the large rectangle metal plate I'll set that off to the side and unclip both camera units each of these 12 megapixel cameras are placed in the same metal housing for that fluid transition from a normal perspective to the 2 times optical zoom lens both camera units have optical image stabilization that physical oh is the iPhone cameras are actually pretty phenomenal I'm always impressed by their image quality before I say too many nice things though let me plug the cameras back into the phone and show you how hard a simple charging port replacement is the charging port nowadays in an iPhone is taking double duty as a headphone jack and a place to charge the phone so it's getting quite a bit of traffic this means that it might eventually stop working in order to replace the charging port everything else needs to come out of the phone which is a super poor design a design which could very easily be remedied by moving the charging port connector from the middle of the motherboard to the bottom like Samsung and every other phone manufacturer does why tangle everything up if it doesn't need to be i pulled five tripoint screws out of the metal strip along the bottom and set that off to the side next to each other there's another tiny screw over the small metal bracket protecting a Lego style ribbon connector and then using a flathead screwdriver I was able to take out yet another style of screw called a standoff where one screw screws into another screw inception screw there's another screw within a screw on the right-hand side of the loudspeaker and a regular Phillips head down at the bottom and the whole loudspeaker can pull away from the phone body with an exceptional amount of adhesive holding the mouth to the frame I definitely won't trust my phone to be water-resistant after this but it's still cool to see from the inside the taptic vibration motor has two screws on the left and it'll pull out I still haven't taken one of these apart yet if there's any interest in me making a vibrator teardown review video let me know down in the comments the motherboard removal isn't as complicated as it looks it only has four screws holding it in place and a whole highway of Lego style ribbon connectors lining the center I'm still keeping my screws organized because there's no way this phone is going back together if the screws get all jumbled up each one is different all of the motherboard connections need to be unclip with my plastic pry tool and the stupidly placed massive one dead center on the motherboard is the charging port ribbon I'll remove the SIM card tray making sure the tiny little extraction pin is recessed back into the phone frame so it doesn't block the motherboard then I'll unclip the last two tiny ribbon cables up at the top of the motherboard then the whole thing can come free from the phone this tiny little guy is the brains and brawn of the entire iPhone 10s max it's a double stack to sandwich PCB with no heat dissipation but don't worry the only time you'll ever get throttled is when the next iPhone comes out and Apple needs you to upgrade true story we're almost to the charging port I bet you forgot what we were even trying to do since we had to remove literally everything else to get here one screw holds an obstructing ribbon to the side wall and then we have three more stand off screws one on either side of the Lightning charging port and one next to the plastic microphone support I'll peel the microphones off the bottom sidewall and you might think we're done but nope two more screws hold the port itself into the frame once those are removed now the whole charging port contraption can pull away from the phone apples little proprietary money making port has a little adhesive around the tip but no rubber rings but with how tight the screws are against that plastic adhesive and metal phone frame there's definitely no water getting inside that was an extraordinary amount of work for such a simple port the reason Apple charges 599 dollars to replace the back glass is because the back glass is impossible to replace Apple themselves swap out the whole frame in housing instead of just the back glass and you're right that seems incredibly inefficient and an incredible amount of work but that's how they built it it doesn't bug Apple at all though it's just their way of coercing you into buying a new phone instead of fixing the old one say goodbye to your wallet for me I'll snuggle the motherboard back into place underneath those ribbon connectors it's time to see if we can get this thing turned on again I feel like it's important to use and fix your phone for as long as possible especially now that the new phones released every year only have very minor upgrades over previous years upgrading your phone every year is just dumb and a waste of money I've got all the ribbon cables plugged back into the motherboard along with its four screws holding the board itself into the phone then I'll mosey on down past the large circular wireless charging pad in the center of the phone to the taptic engine vibrator at the bottom the SIM card tray pops into place and the loudspeaker with its standoff screws the silver brackets get screwed down in overall the bottom components with those same try point screws we kept organized earlier and the rectangular rear metal camera bracket get screwed in over the top of the cameras finally we get the battery back into place it's important to use new adhesive it's starting to look like a real phone again the screens three ribbon cables get plugged into the motherboard connector highway and I'll plug in the battery to test the phone and make sure everything is working before setting the screen into place I am pretty surprised it all still works Apple has not made this process easy lastly the metal brackets with the seven tripoint screws holding everything tight and finally the screen tucks into the top of the frame first before snapping into place all along the sides can't say I'm a fan of this phone but I am glad the screen and battery of placements are relatively easy would you ever attempt this project yourself don't forget to grab your free copy of astrophysics for people in a hurry from the link in the description you'll enjoy it I sure did hit that subscribe button and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around