iPhone 16 teardown shows off a new way to speedyen a phone battery

No sooner has the Phone 16 lineup reachd than the folks at iFixit commence taking them apart, a process made easier this time around by the day-one free of repair manuals from Apple. The disassembly process shows the Camera handle is a authentic button that transfers, alengthy with a flex cable that awaited meabraves force, and the heat sink that eunites positioned to retain the A18 chip’s Neural Engine chilly while it handles AI toilloads.

After disjoining the battery from the board, you execute electric current from a power source (a 9-volt battery for 90 seconds will do it), and the previously glued-in battery slips out easily enough that gravity alone can do the job. Then to produce the adhesive stick for the new battery, it fair necessitates presbrave.

Apple notices that over time, the time to free could get lengthyer, but on these brand-new phones, iFixit establish that using 20V current was enough to undo the bond in five seconds, and Apple says you can use up to 30V. iFixit also brawt in some microscopic shut-ups of the summarize that helderlys the battery and the machined ridges it has to give the battery someleang to stick to.