the Apple shanigan is like Oh this
morning yeah that I feel like they
usually have things a lot more dialed
and then this morning was just kind of
Twitter and I didn't see it might have
just been yeah like a shipping thing but
like I specifically heard this phone and
they were only out of one phone yeah it
was like like your entire order like
they wouldn't release half of it so we
had to go and get a separate one that's
so strange
yeah it was a surprise but they're
really chill like they tried to work
within our local office was pretty great
yeah picks up their doughnuts again yes
that's yes they couched them as leftover
doughnuts this time they brought them
like for their team and I'm like
whatever the team didn't right as I was
walking out so I could have like heard
the story I'm not trying to slander hate
says hi Simon KK what up Kate we left
here well that's pretty cool so good
morning everybody happy iPhone - donde
Sam oh yeah happy little bit stressful
yeah
so I'm KK I'm Sam and we're gonna be
taking apart the iPhone 11 Pro here in a
little bit we'll let a few more people
come join us
Sam was just telling me about her
experience at the Apple Store this
morning so we had a nice early morning
fright we woke up and all of our
pre-orders were we just got a text that
said ambiguously your order has been you
can't pick it up it's been delayed so we
went down to the store and chatted them
about it and they're like well yes but
no but yes but so we got a separate one
so waking up at 5:00 a.m. was just
completely pointless
I like the 5:00 a.m. pre-orders I'd like
to know what you guys like or don't like
if you did pre-order I am NOT a night
person so I can't stay up very late oh
yeah waking up early is definitely
better for me but yeah
cool and I think we're gonna get started
you're all here to watch us tear down
the iPhone 11 Pro so that's what we're
gonna do I'm KK I do all sorts of
different things here and I'm Sam I'm
the lead turret and engineer I'm in
charge of the team here who is doing the
tear downs yes it's a real treat to have
Sam here she doesn't come to the video
studio often so I'm really stoked to
have her by my side today Kelsey is not
here she is at a wedding who gets
married on the iPhone teardown just not
acceptable today is the day I tell you
what yeah today is the day there's a lot
of things going on today things that are
going on we're not in Australia this is
one of the first years we kept the team
home it's much easier for us to do tear
downs in our studio I get to see them
here which is great nice not being
upside-down Australia they live a hard
life and y'all wait for a tear downs
either way so thank you for that and we
are going to do a giveaway on this
livestream so we just put a new product
on sale yesterday this is our Marlin
screwdriver set and it was designed
specifically for iPhone so it has all
the drive styles you need to get into
the iPhone it's what Sam will be using
today and I will do some sort of fun
giveaway a little bit later and you can
comment to win and this is really just
kind of the beginning of teardown season
oh yeah this is early days you've got so
much to look forward to so right after
this we'll be tearing down the iPhone 11
Pro max over on iFixit we'll be doing it
in real time so you can refresh as we go
and we'll be posting steps and photos in
real time and then we've got the iPhone
11 a Nintendo switch and just so many
more tear downs next week so Apple watch
oh yeah that one too so make sure you
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tear downs alright I'll stop talking and
we'll start taking things apart okay
I have a boba fett jacket disc okay
totally matches my jacket it really does
cool it's fairly green it looks very
grey in the actual device so we also
have an iPhone 10s here on the teardown
table with us which we thought it would
be nice to do some comparison shots so
that's what UC San has on the table so
the first thing that we noticed here is
the iPhone is missing from the back
super shiny and there's a centered Apple
logo and that centered Apple logo some
people have speculated that it's about
the balancing the cameras against that
so because they're so freakin huge you
need to like lower the Apple logo down
but it could also be a good target for
wireless charging mmm aim for so yeah
we'll see if that reverse wireless
charging
evidence is in here or not so if you
guys have any questions during the
teardown I'll do my best to keep up with
the chat it's a very noisy chat so I'll
try to answer them in there but go ahead
and drop some in and we will get through
them as fast as we can yep one for any
iPhone teardown is obviously the
pentalobe screws which are the screws
that are trying to keep you out of your
device yeah so Apple thing they do Apple
came out with the pentalobe screw in the
iPhone full we first saw it in the
iPhone 4 back when we tore down the
iPhone 4 we didn't have a pentalobe
driver now we do and you can get it in
our marlin driver set and that's what
Sam is using right now and even though
the Pennell of apples proprietary screw
we started seeing it in like Huawei's p9
and Maisy's and x6 yeah which is it's
not a good screws so it's not like oh we
picked the right screw and everyone's
copying us because reasons like no it's
just cause Apple had a screw and they
are really excited about it so I'm just
gonna see really quickly if we can get
into this
heat probably no chance but probably
give it a shot it is still IP 68 yeah
the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 10s
they both got the same ip68 rating and
we're just gonna turn the power on that
heat gun and we'll be off
so they both got the same ip68 rating
but the iPhone 11 pro has a maximum
depth of 4 meters for up to 30 minutes
and the iPhone 10s playing depth of 2
meters for 30 minutes so we were
wondering any more evidence of more
water resistance or we didn't really see
anything last year either even though it
got a nice little IP spec bomb we didn't
test last year's phone and beer we're
not testing this year's phone in her
beer tube but this is actually the phone
from our beer tube last year and it
still works and use it for making guides
and all sorts of things so I was really
hoping that we could do like per shake
live stream that was pretty cool
just 30 minutes of shaking and opponents
are shaking in a purse a little okay can
you give me the phone after the teardown
we gotta meet guys I'm sorry so everyone
always wonders what we do with our
devices after we take them apart and we
actually make guides out of them so you
guys can fix your stuff we make a lot of
guides in-house or we have an edu
program so we actually send devices to
like a hundred different schools across
the country and then as a part of their
technical writing program they will take
apart devices write a repair guide and
so you get repair guides they get
training on how to do technical writing
and everybody wins but they're the ones
who get our devices and yeah or 16 yeah
seems team makes a lot of guides as well
this is coming apart and slowly it's
really good be in there
this way I'm not doing a good job of
showing the camera here no starting to
come out
so getting funds open it's like I would
say the hardest part about that in
battery strips battery strips are like
at least they're intended to be removed
like apples like okay all right we're
gonna let you have this one thing except
that of course will complain and the
health indicator will say like silly and
I don't know if you can imagine that
like happening in a car oh sorry you
feel does like non-proprietary air
all right so comments are flooding in a
lot of people are asking about 3d touch
we'll talk about that a little bit later
but correct there's no 3d touching no I
don't miss it I never really had to it
it was just not universal enough it
seemed like okay cool idea in theory but
do something with it people are
wondering if they're using stronger glue
this time I don't think so I think I
just was like she's really a patient I
didn't give it enough snark about using
the heat gun so if we weren't doing this
live oh yeah this is absolutely this is
speedrun yeah we're doing this as fast
as possible to give you guys the first
glance and elapsed Sam returned to her
team and do another teardown right after
this but we would absolutely be using
the ice black and going a lot slower and
not trying to be on the eye-opener
thank you yeah this is this is teardown
mode this is like trying to get in as
quickly as possible this is not the
safest method if you want to make sure
that your battery is going to stay happy
and your phone will actually keep
working afterwards the eye opener is the
way to go it's gonna be safe heat all
the way and much easier to manage yeah
but we like to say that our tear downs
like will break our device first so you
don't have to break yours tear downs are
the first time we're ever getting into
this phone this is the first time Sam
has seen this and there it is yeah
so this is pretty much exactly the same
as last year opening to the right like
this yeah so all the cables are in a
slightly different place that are
towards the center of the logic board
we've got this like great bracket that
just covers the middle instead of down
the side
yeah so ever since the iPhone 7 iPhone
xopen like a book previous to that they
open from the top and so Sam is going to
free the display connectors hopefully
batteries No so that's a first
yeah definitely we've also got an
l-shaped battery which is immediately
obvious here the only the 10 that's not
the XS I can remember these things have
the l-shaped single l-shaped battery
with one cell as opposed to the max
which had the two so this is the first
time we've ever seen two battery
connectors in a phone and this is
probably our first hint at bilateral
training maybe yeah it could well be
it's kind of a way to if you have two
connectors it looks like we've got one
here down by the charging port that
could better manage things going into
the battery and then over here is going
to be powering the phone basically so
you wouldn't shoot power throughout the
board yeah across the logic board I've
got a lot of gaskets around the
connectors which is pretty standard
these days for waterproofing and a lot
of people are asking about battery
capacity and we will definitely be
waiting batteries and doing a deep dive
into batteries a little bit later yeah
looking at this right here it looks like
maybe it's quite sick I think oh yeah it
definitely does look sick so without 3d
touch this year so 3d touch required
extra sensors and another layer below
the displays so now that we don't have
that we should be able to free up some
space potentially for what we first
glance looks like a thicker battery
for more in-depth specs of course we
will have our upcoming step-by-step
teardown which will have a lot more
detail as far as chip ID and actual wat
our comparison I'm just trying to rush
through got some supreme contacts on
this just to show you guys what's inside
so battery is safely disconnected which
is nice we don't have to take off this
giant shield here but two shields over
two different Barrett connectors is a
little annoying as far as it is nice
though you know I everyone thinks we're
kind of the anti Apple company and we're
definitely not we just really like
repair and so I like to give props where
props should be given and Apple
definitely their display first opening
procedure is really nice for repairs oh
absolutely yeah yeah everyone seems to
be doing the glass front and glass back
deal and so does Apple and that kind of
sucks but at least you can get to the
screen first okay so if you drop into
the parking lot on your way at the Apple
store that just happened there's some
hope for you yeah and a lot of Android
and just other smartphones that we see
you have to kind of burn through all the
components and like pretty much do a
full disassembly before you can even get
to the display and even getting the
display out you can do a ton of damage
to it so yay Apple for giving us an
easily removable display they also gave
us a nice long display table this time
um I think it was the iPhone 5 and the
se that had like the short booby-trapped
cable so you'd open up your very bottom
yeah he'd have like this much room and
so a lot of people were ripping their
display cable because you didn't know
that was there if you're ever doing a
repair on I fix it I always tell people
to read the guide in full before you get
started you can see us make those
mistakes
so you don't have to so you don't have
to rip any cables or so you would know
that there's two battery connectors also
expand all the comments we have people
from all over the world fixing their
phones with iFixit and they put a lot of
great tips and tricks in the comments
which is the display off here we try and
cover all the bases as much as we can as
technical writers but there's always
going to be someone who has had very
specific experience with a very specific
problem that's valuable this display
looks about the same we've got kind of
that display mounted speaker we've got
the similar face ID kind of arrangement
I think this chip shields a little bit
bigger than last year so we'll be
looking under that you know best yeah so
we'll do a full chip ID when we get to
our teardown later today we actually
have some of our tech writers working on
that now so we'll hope to get that up
soon so what do you think logic board
cameras so many shields yeah a lot of
options I'll go for the cameras we've
got more try points on here which is in
our kit why triple zeros tiny tiny
screws can't decide if I like them more
or less then pen lobes they seem to
strip out less which is nice I just
thought going out real small for not
watching the comments I'm sorry they're
just coming so fast she's just too
fascinated by by my actions yeah I'm
just so fascinated with things so for
those of you wondering how much RAM it
has we'll be investigating that and our
full tear down over on I fixed it later
so we will get to that we won't break
the flex cable got it thank you for that
tip Wow Wow me too cool you want to see
the triple cameras and same look in
there yeah I'm going for that it's like
we're gonna get the and so if you can
see it Sam is organizing all of her
screws on our magnetic mat oh yeah
oh it's messy oh it's real messy but
it's something well know where they go
so it's really important to keep your
screws and just components organized
it doesn't have to be with magnetic mat
but all the screws they're super tiny
and they're actually different lengths
so if you put a screw back in the wrong
place when you're reassembling your
phone you can actually do damage to your
phone I may or may not have done that
you can damage the logic board so we
really like the magnetic mat a lot of
other ways to do it though we get tons
of suggestions our comments people use
like egg curtains or the back of a
sticky note and that's like one of my
favorite parts about working at I fix it
just hearing all of the wonderful repair
tips and hacks from you guys and I'm
wondering if you know that might be a
good chance for a giveaway humours looks
like wall-e alarming or like the the
screaming oh yeah yeah also an emoji you
guys do know it better from the emoji so
interestingly we've got like bear
cameras on the back side see they're
just like mounted into the single frame
so we can probably push these cameras
out
we'll probably save that for the main
teardown will also have x-ray it's
creative electron yeah it's actually in
our parking lot
x-ray van like they're like superheroes
or something we have an x-ray van it's
ridiculous I don't know everything
yes lunch you just have like a perfect
Instagram of like today so we're looking
for that later
as far as cameras go yup their cameras
yeah
okay I'm gonna try and go for the logic
board anything to leave some room for
the battery and then we'll try and get
the battery out well cool and so while
Sam is getting the logic board out I
want to give away some tools so if you
guys want to drop in your favorite
repair tip trick hack go ahead and drop
it in the comments now and I will raffle
off a couple Oh nope I won't raffle I
will pick my favorite Sam and I will
pick our favorite repair tips and we
will announce winners and give them the
marlins screwdriver set that Sam is
using to work on the phone right now and
we'll do that later today maybe at noon
PST because that feels feels right yeah
yeah yeah yeah well snack and you would
love to have a good set of screwdrivers
Chris don't we all how much RAM can you
sense in it like with the force over
9000 is that the appropriate internet
response too much maybe so again we've
got standoffs here and our iPhone
standoff driver is handling those
beautifully you can also use a flathead
to unscrew them most the time it just
doesn't quite seat as well the worst
part Brewed not having a standoff bit is
when you're trying to screw these bits
or these screws back in you have to like
use the tip of a spudger to kind of like
push it in there and it's like really
annoying so having the actual driver is
pretty good got really messy desk and so
Sam is getting out the logic board and
so keep in mind we're not gonna do full
chip ID here on this live stream it
would just take a really long amount of
time and so all of the chips that you
see on the board oh this just popped out
those enough screws well that was really
fast there are some screws holding this
slight little bracket thing down but I'm
just gonna put those aside before I lose
them you know just keep interrupting you
know I really I'm just rambling water
part is like real square this time so
we've got like instead of the like PFLAG
shaped kind of thing going on we have
just a rectangle I think it's maybe the
same volume may be hard to tell yeah
we'll dig more into that later but it's
definitely still double-decker it's real
thick um so if you guys remember we
first saw the stacked logic board and
well no I guess we actually first saw
fun fact the stacked logic board in the
original idea Sam is laughing I I didn't
which I know I absolutely always forget
to eject it which is like it's the first
thing it's like right there on the
outside but I'm there we go all right
now we were for real getting out the
logic board probably probably probably
maybe thank you guys for your
encouragement you use tape to keep the
screws to and real real fast where do we
get the phones friends so we got the
phones from the Apple store this morning
there was a little bit of a hiccup
because they tried to cancel my order
5:00 a.m. and they try to do like no I'm
sorry I come back in a couple days like
excuse me couple days yeah
we were kind of in a mad panic this
morning as we approached the Apple Store
and our orders are canceled so about the
same looks like we've got a soldered on
symmetry these things are so tiny can
you imagine this is this is a phone
brain right which is it's like your
computer brains like everyone has these
phones all the time and that's like
pretty much everything that's managing
it unless there's a second board that
we're not aware of all right I'm gonna
take off some brackets and I think we're
gonna go for the battery next ton of try
points in here all right
mmm you use a fix-it tools like crazy at
work
that's that's exciting someone just
asked if we're gonna remove the battery
and we are here in a little bit right
there with you buddy yeah so we will be
doing that soon
looks like we've still got pull-tabs I
see at least one on the top which is
nice
someone's asking why they cancelled the
orders I don't think they did it on
purpose we we live in a relatively small
town I don't know if you guys know that
we're based in San Luis Obispo it's the
happiest places to live according to
Oprah says question we don't get a ton
of stock here in our Apple Store so I
think they just like miscalculated or
the the bus was later I'm not exactly
sure that we usually pre-order all sorts
of phones because we're paranoid no I
clear over at UPS Chanteclair yeah yeah
she helps hold our devices for us we
have a good relationship with her and
should we pick up a lot of our devices
from there and so you want to see the
back of the phone I'm just realizing
this is so small hello yeah that is it's
like I don't know two-thirds the size
probably not I think I'm gonna try and
pop that out just more room to get to
the are we going to do a screen
replacement video I'm not today
but in time we will will have full
guides ready for all of these devices as
soon as our tech writers sleep and we
can get them out we're gonna be in a
marathon of tear downs for the next week
or so so we will try to keep up with
guides whenever we can yeah don't really
recommend doing it the way that I did it
you could probably like watch the stream
after and maybe make it happen but not
so fast we got another question about
waterproofing so Sam and I have been on
the lookout to see if there's any extra
seals and gaskets around the components
opening procedure felt the same so no
evidence of additional waterproofing so
yeah the like the penile obscene drop
the same we do still have that gasket
around the SIM tray so there's that
adhesive is pretty much the same I think
we've still got the all black instead of
the kind of two-part and he said that
they've been using previously so
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it may come down to the mesh they use on
the speaker grill or you know some
relatively minor thing
there's taptic engine do we think that
iPhones are becoming too big to hold I
think we have like relatively small
hands but like we just double hand it
feels after the success everything yeah
we both held us Sam and I are weirdly on
the same upgrade cycle we have upgraded
our phones one right after the other at
the same time so we held onto our iPhone
success for four years a long time yeah
now we both have the 10s people are
wondering all sorts of things about the
battery again on our teardown on I fix
it we're gonna be taking apart the
iPhone 11 Pro max and we'll do some
battery weights bent oh it's fine it's
fine it was just a little bit of a
protecto I forgot that I put it like
great I think that's the entire strip
weight really yeah so looks like a lot
of it I've only successfully gotten a
strip out once and I've done dozens and
battery replacements I just don't have a
touch I'm just kidding you know I
absolutely don't I go way too fast and
there
yeah I cheat and I use I fixed it
adhesive remover and I swirl that around
in the battery well because that
definitely makes it a water hard I know
Kelsey likes to heat the back of the
battery to get to be a little bit more
pliable I am just very impatient you've
probably also been mostly working on
older phones adhesive does stiffen up I
mean this is like a day one phone so
still got a lot of elasticity in here
usually the trick is to pull evenly just
so you have like even pressure and
you're not like letting it bunch up or
wrinkle on one side
extra 10 points if you get with protec
next to you just punch it onto the floor
Alice that's the someone is saying
wiggle to strip back and forth other
than that before that kind of yeah
probably manage that a semi strip yes
can we do a full video I like oh it
looks like they've got to cut out for
the wireless charger again good lay out
one strip a finger across a balloon
weird okay all right guys I just you
have to appreciate it but I got both of
these strips out completely intact
that's amazing today we're gonna keep
that it doesn't even wrinkle up can we
frame it for the next year death oh it's
really gross all right no one okay so I
think that there was just two strips
there might be 0/3 truth well there's
the second battery connector you never
know
they're just anything I think it widest
maybe the first thing didn't quite come
out a little bit right
what's our audience thing after we just
you know are you funny yeah you guys
proud of Sam she should definitely come
back right I think so hundred points to
Hufflepuff my Hufflepuff over here mmm
is that bubble gun no that's not bubble
gum it would be really gross bubble gum
I think not taste very good
oh there's another strip how do I get to
that one you probably can't see no you
can't see but there's a strip
down there and I can't access it from
the other side it's like on the side oh
it's huge okay I lied hang on okay this
is another strip I thought it was just
the tape over the battery board but
there's a third strip down here right
Apple it was my bad listen if you put
out instructions I would really be able
to do this a lot faster and easier I'm
just saying like put guys out that's
fine I don't mind if you like okay yeah
mmm-hmm so it's like we didn't need that
tool we didn't want it there looking at
me funny you didn't like it
Oh got it sound effects this morning so
yeah there was this third strip here and
it has it starts with like - it's like a
fear at you so if you break one and just
keep pulling the other huh yes so three
strips one on this side then on the
bottom and then one on the top and then
that kind of they cut out around the
wireless charging coil which is cool
because then you don't damage that if
you're prying I guess it's like yeah I
guess my antenna connector ones pretty
handy those pull tabs are pretty cool
it's a lot easier than trying to pry the
Samsung battery out of the hole unless
you're using the piece of remover in
which case like alright fine mostly
intact hasn't blown up very cool uh one
thing to note here it was like a corner
missing
that's not me I didn't dent that corner
when I like accidentally kind of like
fling it out of the phone but square
corner bent corner not sure what that
means exactly it could be a battery
chemistry kind of issue like we've got
this cutout here this is round it looks
square but if you can see there's like a
little deeper cutout you can also tell
this in our x-ray
where there's kind of like that corner
on there I was telling my team that like
oh yeah it's like how you can microwave
some metal as long as it's like thick
enough and like the right shape but you
can't microwave like foil or something
so I mean that's probably not at all
like that
but as far as you know there are very
specific science chemistry questions in
here batteries
okay so we've got batteries out if we
compare the backs the charging coils
look about the same but we've got kind
of different cable routing happening
here so over here on the upper left side
we've got cables that go out to the
volume control buttons and also I think
it was like a sensor of some kind that's
out there but then this cable that goes
down to the charging board is new as
opposed to in the 10s here so reverse
wireless charging confirmed I mean maybe
I mean maybe I mean it's definitely
going it's going on a charging board
yeah why would it be there so the other
option is well obviously those two go to
the charging board because that's the
thing so it might go through the logic
board last time and this one is just a
more indirect connection in the pro so
we're not looking for an additional coil
there seemed to be some confusion of
like action oh yeah for the the coils
can look exactly the same and okay
here's like a hot take for you what if
what if there was a reverse wireless
charging last year - yeah I mean when we
saw what was at the s10 that had reverse
wireless charging there was just like a
huge beefy cooling system and don't see
an additional thing in there just be
extra battery connectors yeah they did
mention better cooling I don't really
see a super ton of evidence of that
we've got some additional like I think
it's a graphite kind of insulation pad
there and so it's possible there's like
less than this one
but I'm just saying conspiracy cool well
I think that kind of brings us to the
end of our Tyrion you want to take more
things apart or no I everything pretty
much looks the same it looks like the
speaker's a little bit different so you
won't be able to swap those out probably
will do more detailed part swapping
analysis later but as far as like the
interesting stuff I think we've done
about all we can do I briefly pulled up
this charging cable and it's it is
soldered on there so I can't just like
rip that off and be like oh yeah never
mind it's just the volume cable that
goes down to the charging port for some
reason but we'll be able to ID some
chips and see if absolutely any will
have a ton more content yeah we'll be
able to learn more about potential
bilateral charging after mmm our full
teardown and let's see if there's any
other questions battery capacity on the
battery three specs online already oh
yeah everything's available online
we've got eleven point six seven watt
hours you share the back of the phone
people are curious about that
it still looks the same and can me oh
but confirmed their lights like
definitely it's thicker right oh yeah my
naked eye says yeah sticker look at some
helpers on there what do I know see how
that looks cool so I guess thanks for
joining us for this stream I hope you
had fun we definitely had a little too
much fun um if you want to drop in a
repair tip for a chance to win the
Marlin screwdriver set that Sam was
using for the staredown go ahead and
drop a comment into our live chat now
and definitely be sure to head on over
to I fix it I think you guys we're gonna
get the teardown up at some point a
couple hours a couple hours we'll see
how far the team did yeah and they'll be
tearing down the iPhone 11 Pro max doing
it live so you can refresh the steps as
you go everyone's asking about the RAM
you'll have to check out our turnout for
the RAM as well but other than that I
think we're done
thank you for coming on this
this is fun uh yeah
all right well take care everybody yeah
yeah
you