Apple entered boutiques were the only ones to change the screen of the last iPhone model without depriving the user of the facial recognition function, Face ID. Apple will reverse by simplifying the work of independent repairers.
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Independent repairers are relieved: Apple should finally allow them to replace the iPhone 13 screen without neutralizing ID, a key function that allows users to unlock the upscale iPhone by presenting them their face. A software update must come to fix this problem, as announced by the American manufacturer To the American technological media The Verge, Tuesday, November 9.
Apple’s announcement comes after a lifting of independent repair shields, with difficulties on the iPhone 13, marketed since the end of September. Prior to this date, the replacement of Apple’s mobile screen had always been possible for small shops as well as adequate individuals from their fingers. This repair was even crucial for them, because the screen case is the fault the most common on mobile.
But with the iPhone 13, only the authorized repairers can for the moment replace the screen and reactivate face id in a few clicks, as revealed An article from 4 November Posted by Ifixit , the specialist in repair modes. In question: a tiny electronic chip affixed to the iPhone 13 screens, without which face ID can no longer work. If approved repairers can reactivate the functionality on a new screen using their diagnostic console, independent repairers, must transfer the chip, which requires a microscope and microsworm skills. A hard maneuver to achieve and synonym for these repair shops that must charge the operation to their customers, which can increase their rates.
The promised update by Apple will probably not be invisible to the user. The mobile to the replaced screen will likely display a message indicating that this part has been changed, and that Apple could not check the origin. A message that is already displayed when replacing the iPhone 12 camera.
This incident confirms that Apple wants to closely control the repair of its smartphones, even the “right to remedy” passes to the second plan that the French state defends. This preference already appears quite clearly in the repair index that the recent iPhone gets around 6/10, to compare to the nearby 8/10 scores that the high-end phones of samsung and Xiaomi