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Apple today announced that its Self Service Repair program is expanding to the iPad lineup for the first time.

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The program will provide ‌iPad‌ owners with manuals, genuine Apple parts, Apple Diagnostics troubleshooting sessions, tools, and rental toolkits to conduct their own repairs. It will now support the iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Pro (M4), iPad mini (A17 Pro), and ‌iPad‌ (A16) starting tomorrow for display, battery, camera, and charging port repairs.

Apple launched the ‌Self Service Repair‌ program in 2022 to support individuals who are comfortable with undertaking their own device repairs, with the same resources used by Apple. ‌Self Service Repair‌ now supports 65 Apple devices, including the iPhone 16e, MacBook Air, and Mac Studio. The program is set to expand to Canada this summer, becoming the 34th country to offer it.

Apple also today revealed more details about its Genuine Parts Distributor program, which allows businesses who do not have a direct service relationship with Apple to order genuine Apple service parts and components. iPhone and ‌iPad‌ displays, batteries, and charging ports can be ordered from MobileSentrix in the U.S., and MobileSentrix and Mobileparts.shop in Europe.

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jlc1978 Avatar
jlc1978
11 months ago

right to repair folks can shut up now. good riddance
Yea, the right to repair never meant the right to repair cheaply or easily and not require some skills. What it needs to do is not lock you into requiring the vendor to do the repair or maintenance due to specialized tools not available to the purchaser, which is a reasonable requirement for manufacturers to have to follow.
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Darth Tulhu
11 months ago
Don't understand the disdain for this.

It is a benefit to those who wish to repair their devices themselves (and say, practice for Apple Tech Certification maybe).

It is also COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT to those who choose to take the car into the shop.
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Mactech20
11 months ago
I have repaired a lot of iPads, iPhones, and Macs in my day. In all honesty what I hated most was the iPads. Trying to get that screen to sit just *perfectly* back in the frame was a miserable time. I will take an iMac screen replacement any day of the week.
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Fuzzball84
11 months ago
Apple devices are just not designed for easy repair.

virtually all consumer goods these days are not designed to be easily repaired.

But I suspect this will change drastically in the next 10 years.

Either Apple will promote recycling and repair more in its shops or purposely make devices more repairable by the user.

There is a gigantic mountain of e waste coming. IoT, white goods, laptops, tablets and phones.

And that’s ontop of all the regular waste, including “recycling” that is collected from households. As most recycling ends up going to landfill or incineration, or a pile in a third world country.

Absolutely disgusting.
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jml12286
11 months ago

I have repaired a lot of iPads, iPhones, and Macs in my day. In all honesty what I hated most was the iPads. Trying to get that screen to sit just *perfectly* back in the frame was a miserable time. I will take an iMac screen replacement any day of the week.
Same. The iPads were the most annoying when it was broken because of drops. It would then require extra bending back of the frame or hammering/dremeling edges back out straight😬
Then trying to make sure no dust or smudges were under the glass..... Don't ever want to touch them again.
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Rgill
11 months ago
Great to see Apple expanding Self Service Repair to iPads. This gives more control to users and repair professionals.
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