all right
we are live finally we are only what
15 minutes late not entirely
our fault i feel like we got our phones
later than we've ever gotten in them
yeah that's uh that's true i'm sorry
everyone we
definitely got our phones a little late
and then we had some technical
difficulties believe it or not
even we have technical difficulties but
we are here we are live and uh
please let us know if we sound quiet or
if you can't see anything
uh like i said we had some technical
difficulties
so uh bear with us but we're ready to
get started
yeah so hello good morning good
afternoon wherever you're from let me
know in the chat
and happy iphone teardown day uh so
i'm kk i do all sorts of content things
here
and uh i'm taylor i am a technical
writer
slash teardown engineer and
i am not a teardown engineer so taylor
will be doing the disassembly today
and i will be looking at the chat trying
to answer your questions
you guys this is a very noisy chat
already so i'll do my best to answer
your questions
but some housekeeping things um as
you can see i keep looking to my right
because taylor and i
have a little bit of a weird set up uh
because of covid so we are
approximately two kks apart which is
well over six feet
and what else can we say about that yeah
just that uh
throughout this iphone tear down we will
be
safe like uh we do have another team
working on
a step-by-step teardown which will be
coming later today we'll talk more about
that in a minute uh
but they are masked up we're doing
everything we can to be safe
while we are working together in this
building in the office
and just to set some expectations this
is our
first teardown so taylor has never seen
the inside of this phone neither have i
so it's really kind of our first
impressions and
right after this we'll be doing a full
step-by-step
side-by-side teardown of the iphone 12
and the iphone 12 pro
over on the ifixit over on the ifixit
website and i
linked the tear down below and we're
actually going to be doing that live so
once we get a few steps in we'll go
ahead and publish and you can just
refresh
and do the teardown with us exactly so
keep refreshing the
step-by-step teardown the written
teardown page for more
content throughout the day we don't have
a time when we'll be finished but we're
just going to try to crank out as quick
as we can so just stay tuned there
and this will go the full hour so if you
don't like talking which a lot of people
don't
or my voice or taylor's voice this
probably isn't the stream for you
but not to worry we'll have our full
step-by-step tear down and we will also
have
a shorter video next week of the iphone
12 pro
we're trying to make as much content as
we can to please everyone but it's not
possible so
again if if you don't want to listen to
us talk and watch us tear down this
phone
feel free to leave and if you want to
say nice things that would be great
maybe they'll give you a shout out but
that rarely happens on the internet so
we'll see uh and so
next i think is it time to introduce
the oops wheel of death i think it is uh
we
so i guess to preface this in in
the apple keynote when they announced
these phones
they mentioned offhandedly that they are
oops resistant
uh and we love to latch onto little
things like that
and we'll we'll dive into a little bit
deeper later
why these are oops resistant but long
story short
some of our veteran tear down engineers
actually made
an oops machine and it's pretty ad hoc
it's uh are we can we cut to the oops
machine
we're almost ready because we're almost
ready to catch this machine
but uh anyway the oops machine we built
it
uh or these veteran terror engineers
built it
and what we're going to do is we have
this
iphone 12 pro strapped to a wooden arm
that will travel in a circle and run
into various
obstacles and go through water and that
will
more or less give us uh a test
for how durable it is it's very not
scientific
do not come at us with this is not
scientific we know it's not scientific
it's just for fun but it should be
hopefully slightly entertaining that's
that's kind of our goal
and i think we're ready so we're going
to cut away to the oops machine
and so the oops machine we we have two
cameras set up here one of them is a
wide shot where you can see the whole
machine
and on the smaller video you can see
uh our video guy michael is showing us
the
cert like the obstacles i guess the
first one is a bucket of sand that drops
sand onto the phone then the phone will
run into
a bunch of tools where it will kind of
get hit and scratched
and after that the arm
swings past a heat lamp where the phone
will just kind of take heat
just trying to simulate like temperature
differences
and after that the phone swings down
into a bucket of water with some ducks
with some ducks in it of course
rubber duckies and after that it swings
back up
hits the sand and then hits the tools
and it just kind of goes
like that in a circle over and over
again
so yeah go ahead yeah if you guys will
be cutting away to the oops machine
throughout the stream but if you want
us to cut away to the oops machine more
definitely just let us know and we'll do
that
and yesterday when we were testing it uh
taylor
someone broke a phone is that yes that's
true uh so
like i said it's very non-scientific and
it actually doesn't
uh it it's a lot less rigorous than we
initially planned it to be
uh but when michael put a phone in
yesterday to test it he put
in an iphone 10 that wasn't sealed we
had opened it before
and so we just closed it up without re
uh reapplying the adhesive
and so when it went through the water it
definitely just died
so so it works the use machine has
already taken one life
i i don't think that uh
the iphone 12 will even be scratched or
dented or
broken but uh at the end of this live
stream we'll pull out
the phone that's been going for an hour
then and
we'll see what's what happens perfect i
think
that it's gonna get hit by the hammer
and get some dents i don't know
yeah i'll bet you a hash brown okay i'll
take that back
all right so with that i think we're
ready to get started let's get started
um
on you can see on the table here i have
the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 pro
as well as a magsafe charger i'm going
to give this iphone 12 pro to kk in a
minute
after i do some comparisons uh but we
just wanted to show we've got a magsafe
charger here
these phones do have magsafe you can put
the magnet on
the magnets like a lot of reviewers have
said aren't
super strong but they do the job
and i've got my iphone 10s here
you can see it does not have mac safe
so we got the gold yeah we got the gold
iphone 12 pro
and then the blue iphone 12 regular
nice so for anyone getting this iphone
i'd be curious to see
what colors you were getting yeah the
colors are really interesting this year
yeah i did not think i would like the
gold
and then i pulled it out of the package
and kind of loved it so
it's a lot prettier than i was expecting
it looks pretty good
and then as well here are the thin boxes
uh so thin very thin i actually have an
iphone 11 box here we can compare it to
oh you came prepared i did try to come a
little bit prepared so
yeah they really cut the box in half and
we can talk in a minute
about uh how good this is for the
environment or not good but
yeah there's a comparison for you i am
going to start heating up this iphone 11
kiki if you want to come grab your
iphone 12. here's a side by side they
are
exactly the same size guys it's pretty
crazy actually
okay so kk is going to talk in a minute
about
one rumor that we found last night but
supposedly
the new iphones have a stronger adhesive
seal
so i'm going to start using a heat gun
to kind of break that seal down
and so maybe we'll mute my microphone
and kkk can talk about the rumors
yeah so last night mac rumors posted an
article that said
that apple is now supplying a
i'm calling it a microwave it's
essentially a heating device
to help open iphones so
essentially you just put the iphone in a
tray slip it into the machine
heat it up for two minutes pull it out
throw a suction cup on there twist
and voila you have an easy opening
procedure
so when i read that i wondered you know
why now ifixit has always used heat
for getting phones open and so
theories the first thing that came to
mind was
potentially extra waterproofing this
iphone still touts the ip68 rating but
this year
it has additional waterproofing at six
meters
last year it was four meters the year
before it was two meters so when we do
our full teardown on ifixit we'll
definitely be looking for
any extra waterproofiness of gaskets
or extra adhesive once taylor gets that
phone back off i can ask him if he feels
like the adhesive was any harder to get
off
we actually have an office in germany
and they started doing a tear down last
night
this morning what is time in 2020
and they did say that it felt a little
bit harder to get off so
maybe that's the reason i would love to
know what you guys think
it's for and i also wondered if
you know maybe it's just for preventing
like accidental damage during in-store
repairs
it could streamline the process uh but i
mean
i wish that they sold it to consumers i
feel like that would be really nice i
know that
uh you guys are gonna get a lot of
repair biased opinions because where i
fix it so
sorry for that actually no i'm not sorry
at all
but you know if they're giving it to
apple techs you know it would be great
to have
for consumers as well uh we all know
well if you follow ifixit you probably
are familiar with right to repair
and now that we're in a global pandemic
it really feels like right to repair is
more important than ever
there were a lot of people who couldn't
repair their phones when all the genius
bars went down
so that would be great
but i want to hear what other theories
you guys have
for this new heating machine
does it feel any more difficult taylor
you got my gun am i good
i don't know if they can hear me i'm not
sure if taylor's mic is on yet so
we'll see
someone in the chat says they want to
hear the phone crack
uh if you missed it we did do a asmr
teardown or first
or i guess if you are like a devout asmr
person
you might not consider it full asmr so
it was asmr inspired
of the google pixel 4a
i never remember the names but if
someone on my team is watching if you
could drop that in the chat that would
be great so people could see it
yeah i think that was the pixel 4a got
it
um kk just to answer some of the
questions that you asked me while i
couldn't answer them
uh the so i've i'm now on round two
of heat for the phone and it's
just barely starting to give i don't
know if you guys can see that um
it this is definitely more heat than
i have needed to get into iphones in the
past
it's still not i don't know it's not
excessive
i would say i really am curious
why this is i think part of it could be
just the new design of the phone
i do like you said i wish that if if
you if apple is providing a tool that
they should provide it to everyone so
that everyone can open their phones
but also like you said we've been using
heat to open iphones
for many years so the the procedure
in terms of like the step-by-step guide
is going to be largely the same so
it's not like they're it's not like
they're using a special brand of heat or
something
they can't they can't make their own
proprietary heat yeah
they would if they could i'm sure they
would i also wondered
if maybe this was you know
the beginning of the portless iphone
that we might get next year
absolutely i think we will we can get
more into that maybe when we
uh talk about magsafe and get to the
magnets but
this there are a number of signs i think
here that
kind of indicate that's where we're
headed which is really sad
yeah that makes me sad uh every iphone
teardown always starts with removing the
pentalobe screws
and as i started to think about that i
was like am i going to be saying this
next year
in 2020 man even that bring me that
brought me nostalgia
not using pentalobe screws next year
even though
they're not great screws
and yeah
all right so if you guys have any
questions make sure to drop them
into the chat people are telling you to
use
a metal spudger we don't usually like
using metal because it can
break the case you don't want to damage
the pretty iphone yeah
okay let's grab an opening pick here we
should be able to get inside
yeah so a lot of people say they use
heat mats to soften the adhesive
yeah and we we did have a heat mat but
i kind of like the old-fashioned heat
gun especially because
usually with iphones you don't need that
much heat
and we knew we would need a little more
and we did end up needing a little more
but we are inside here we well i've got
to pick in
so nice there we go
and we're off
let's get this suction cup off
and someone already told us in the chat
uh be careful it opens the different way
it opens to the right
yeah uh i do wanna i do to make a
disclaimer
i ca said i'm not familiar with the
insides of this phone but i have done a
little homework on the other teardowns
that have been live
so i at least know uh the basics i
i want to be a little surprised but i'm
aware of uh
some of the booby traps that are ahead
so this is
my fifth year of iphone teardowns um
ever since the iphone 7 iphone's opened
to the left
and i think it was the og iphone se had
that had like the hidden booby trap
display cable and so oh there you go now
it's open
there we go um is there any slack on
that display cable or how much room do
you have yeah
yeah about the same as last year it's
not great
like i could easily tear that i don't
know if i would
even trust it to just lay like this
you know while i was unsticking the
cables but
it's better than nothing like some some
phones you actually
just can't open the screen all the way
to unscrew the screws or the back cover
but
i did that so i'm aware
yeah i ripped the display cable on a
phone so if you're ever
repairing an iphone using ifixit guides
hopefully
i always recommend to people to expand
the comments
on each step because people who have
done the repair will leave you tips
like don't rip your hidden display cable
that
lives under there so always expand the
comments
what else did we want to cover while i
was opening the phone
i don't know if you wanted to talk about
the charging brick
oh yeah we can talk about the charging
brake so i guess
to preface what i'm going to do here uh
the phone opens
here to the opposite direction like kk
said
i'm going to attack these brackets here
so that i can
remove the display and battery
connectors battery first
always um always first and then we'll
get the display off and we can talk
about the display
in the meantime talking about mag
or magsafe and the removal of the
charging brick
i have a lot of mixed feelings what do
you think
you know a lot of people it's hot
i also have a lot of feelings so
i guess just tldr for me is
anything in like the right direction
towards being more environmentally
friendly is good
but also there are like a billion things
apple could do to be more
environmentally friendly like
not pushing upgrades every two years or
not being the main lobbyers against
right to repair
so i'll take it it's a win you know they
recently expanded their
authorized repair program i know it's
not great i know you kind of have to
sell your soul to apple if you do want
to be an authorized repair tech but
again if that means more phones being
repaired i think it's a step in the
right direction
so i'd love to know what you guys think
in the channel because this has been
a pretty heated topic and there's
opinions on all sides
so what do you think taylor i don't know
i'm i'm kind of with you
like any any step in the right direction
kind of feels like a net positive uh
what
what bothers me the most is the
usbc cable that they include like
okay first of all i want to say i'm i'm
holding the phone up like this trying to
figure out which connector is the
battery connector i'm not
entirely sure i think that it's this
small one
i'm gonna go for it oh yep right out
okay uh anyway the the usbc
cable they they were locked into that
because that's what they gave with the
iphone 11 last year
so in a way i understand that but
that is just such a bad look like
having having everyone who's upgrading
from anything
other than an iphone 11 which is not
a not typical and b not what we want
like that's that's not what we want to
happen
uh all of those people are gonna have to
buy the additional brick
and there are a lot of people like i
don't know
i i have a bunch of iphone chargers
because i've had iphones for a long time
so i don't necessarily need to go out
and buy that usbc brick
but not everyone is like that you know
like
some people are gonna buy this phone and
it'll it'll be their
first iphone and i don't know yeah
and then there's the question of are
they even being
truthful like you can't really trust any
company
but i don't know yeah so
that's our opinions on not including a
charger in the box
but let us know what you think in the
comments
there are like we said so many variables
and opinions here
it's and it's impossible to know you
know only only tim apple knows what's
going on tim
apple uh cool
and so moving along
i'm almost uh i've almost got
the display disconnected here we could
start talking about the
display yeah um did you want to pull out
the
12 for comparisons no the 11 the 11 yeah
yeah
let me get this disconnected here so
these these displays are
sort of interesting especially this 12
display
because it's such a big upgrade from
last year like the
a lot of the complaints i will just
bring this display out real quick
a lot of the complaints with the iphone
11 from last year
was like the display is too low
resolution
and it's not an oled so they
they like full on went and gave us a
huge upgrade this year
if you buy a standard iphone you are now
basically getting a pro level screen
the only difference between this screen
that i'm about to take off
and the screen in the iphone 11 or 12
pro geez sorry i'm gonna
say iphone 11 all day i know uh
anyway the only difference is uh
brightness like the
this iphone 12 regular display
uh has a theoretical lower
like standard high brightness level and
we don't know whether that's a
difference in the actual display
component
or if it's just something with like the
display controller and we we're going to
definitely going to investigate that
in the written teardown that's not
something that i can figure out right
now but
yeah so the 12 pro is listed
as 800 nits at max brightness and then
the 12 says
625 nits at max brightness but then they
both have the same max 1200 nits
brightness for hdr content
and so just like taylor said we don't
know if that's a different controller or
a different component
so um we'll definitely be investigating
that more but if there are other things
like that you guys want us to look into
into the teardown
drop it into the chat so here are the
displays
uh like other teardowns have kind of
shown
the iphone 12 display is a lot thinner
than the iphone 11 display
which is i'm shaking them as i say
iphone 12
is on your right iphone 11 is on your
left
so and it's thinner because it's an oled
display so they can make it thinner
and one thing that we will continually
notice here
throughout this teardown is the iphone
12
is a lot smaller than the iphone 11 was
so we're gonna see smaller
components we've got the loudspeaker
here you can see the iphone 11
loudspeaker
or earpiece speaker is pretty noticeably
bigger than the iphone 12
ear speaker and then we get this box out
of the way
you can see side by side iphone 11 on
the left iphone 12
on the right uh the taptic engine
is a lot smaller here this loudspeaker
is quite a bit smaller
and particularly we'll talk about
battery in a minute but
like the battery is pretty small too so
smaller taptic engine is cr
so there's like a noticeably smaller
taptic engine in the
iphone 12 for as long as i can remember
taptic engines have either grown in size
or
they've stayed the same what does that
mean for the haptics on the iphone
that is a good question i i personally
have a lot of confidence in apple
engineers um
they particularly the ones who focus on
haptics they
have historically done their job very
well but
so i i'm guessing that the the haptic
experience won't be compromised
significantly but it is really
interesting like you said
like we we have seen the taptic engine
grow since like the iphone 6
it's only grown and that's also the
story in the apple watch like the apple
watch
taptic engine has only grown so
this is pretty small but again still
this is
significantly bigger than most android
phone type or
they're not taptic engines most android
phone haptic motors
so and there's no more bracket
on those lower components yeah and there
is no more bracket here which is nice we
can just go straight there
and i think i think we will let's let's
go straight to taptic engine
and then we'll head up to cameras sounds
good
yeah let's uh let's check in on the oops
machine while we
while i'm doing this we can check in on
the machine
it is oopsing it is oopsing
uh it's kind of hard to tell what's
going on with the oops machine
it's it's
i don't know if you guys think i'm gonna
win the hash brown or if taylor's gonna
win the hash brown
one problem that uh our veteran teardown
engineers ran into when they were
building the ups machine
is it's it's just kind of like thrown
together we didn't have a ton of time to
make this
uh but what what it is is it's a drill
uh so there's a drill and then the drill
is spinning
there's no head attached to it it's just
like the
the head of the drill is spinning and
it's rotating a bike wheel
and that is what's rotating the arm that
the iphone is on
so there's not a lot of torque that we
can
uh make it spin with and
so it like i said it's not it's not
doing a lot of damage to the phone
we really wanted it to be more powerful
but
this was what we got in uh the short
amount of time that we had
i think it's great i agree
shout out to andrew and sam for making
that
yeah so taylor you're working on the
lower components now so
lower components we're going to taptic
engine and
so far the screw types have been the
same as
iphone 11 so we had pentalobe screws
on the outside like you mentioned and
then we had y triple zero to remove
these
covers and now we're going to
phillips yes phillips so
a couple years ago if you are a nerd
about screw
bits and you might be because you're
watching this live stream i
had the team run a blog series called
fantastic bits and where to find them
and then warner brothers sent me a
takedown notice
but i didn't know that yeah i thought i
was gonna get fired but kyle wiens who's
our ceo uh he printed it out and
told me to hang it on my wall because he
was kind of proud of me for just
ruffling some feathers uh but if you are
interested in learning more about all
the different screw types you can head
on over to ifixit we have a whole series
and i actually wrote the one about the
pentalobe which is apple's proprietary
screw
we first saw it in the iphone 4. it's
shallow
it strips easy it's not the greatest
screw but
whatever apple does everyone follows so
we started seeing it in
new devices i believe meizu uses it
in one of their phones which was kind of
interesting
so i suspect that
next year more people will also not be
including charging bricks
in their phones as well apple is quite
the trendsetter
i want to clarify i don't think
pentalobe is proprietary it's just
very uncommon like so we we didn't we
hadn't really seen it or
nobody was really aware of it apple
brought it to the fore
with uh with what they did but i don't
think it was proprietary i could be
wrong let us know if you know
um oh yeah so i just had to pull out the
loudspeaker
but it was kind of layered over the
taptic engine
but this is interesting the
previous iphones have had
adhesive here so where the speaker meets
the
cutouts here at the bottom they
previously used adhesive
so when you removed the speaker to
disconnect
or to like take out the battery you
had to read here the speaker to get a
good fit and to reseal the phone
but this is a little rubber gasket
so now you can just take it out
or i mean you don't have to take this
gasket out you can just take the speaker
out and put it back without having to
reseal any adhesive
which is great that's very nice all
right so
i believe that y'all have told us that
our audio and our video aren't sinking
so we apologize for that so we're gonna
go ahead
and reset the stream to fix that
crb give us a sec we'll be right back
all right you think we're back i think
we're back i think we're back
hard to know anything these days yeah
literally don't know anything these days
uh still getting okay we're back cool
chat has confirmed that we're back so we
left off with taylor was
going over how the lower speaker doesn't
have an adhesive gasket
around it this year uh yeah which is
cool
that is very cool let us know if you
didn't hear that
i i think you did
and hopefully you did now i'm trying to
figure out how to get the taptic engine
out it's
not like i said it was kind of laid
under the speaker here
and then there's it looks like it's only
on top of this bracket
here but it's not loose at all so
i'm just trying to unscrew a couple
other things and see if i can get it out
and the reason that i'm trying to get
these components out is
you can see the battery has these pull
tabs here
and so i i need clearance here to pull
out the pull tabs to get rid
to get the battery out so that's why we
have to go
to these lower components before we can
get to the battery which is not ideal in
terms of
uh repairability but it's better than
nothing
so a couple of folks are still saying
our audio and our video are out of sync
so we appreciate
you woof we appreciate you hanging with
us
i'm just we're just gonna keep going
so if you have ever successfully removed
an iphone battery and pulled the strips
out easy
let me know in the chat i've only done
it twice
where i actually got it to pull
completely out uh i like to cheat
oh there's not much of a
well here to be able to even drop
adhesive
remover into but yeah there's kind of a
little well but it's it's not a lot
yeah so i like to cheat and drop
adhesive remover into the underside of
the battery so i can pull it out easier
but i wonder what you guys do if you
have any tips on getting that out that's
always the hardest part for me
jesus this is weird
i'm just removing screws taptic engine
does not
want to move so
the art of repair says i got all sorts
of ways to take out any of those super
hard pull tabs
if you got all sorts of ways why are you
not sharing them with us right now
someone else said the first time they
opened up an iphone got the strips out
fine
okay again if you got it out fine why
are you not telling me how you did it
uh and oh my intern is on the stream and
he said it looks good for him hey todd
um oh there's okay so there was one
bracket
above the taptic engine
and here is what looks like uh
the little cable for the tuptic engine
and we are getting a lot of people
telling us to call j rigg so we're
friends with jerry rigg like i really
like zach
uh follow him on twitter he tweets the
best stuff
he does tweet some good stuff she tweets
great stuff uh i
am awaiting his scratch test apple is
touting their ceramic
shield glass whatever and i'm curious to
see
how that fares on a scratch test usually
when
you improve durability on screens it's
like
what is it it's like more scratch
resistant or more durable
yeah exactly and so usually you make a
compromise with one of those
so we'll see how this new ceramic shield
will do yeah i'm very excited for
scratch tests drop tests i am really
looking forward to see how
these screens do see what happens
oh
oh some people are saying we're back
maybe
are we back
some people are saying we're back hey
i don't believe it guess who's back
i will believe it when i see it
shady's back okay i'll stop singing
uh if we have good audio can you let us
know
let us know if we have good audio let us
know if we have good video
we're just trying to run this all on 5g
you know
and uh 5g sucks so we haven't even
talked about 5g
we haven't talked about 5g yet we're not
actually running this on 5g that was a
joke just in case you didn't get it we
actually do have like decent internet at
the office it's not internet problems
we actually have really good internet
here we're all working from home
uh for the most part and my internet at
home is
nothing compared to the internet here
yeah i actually
i think we mentioned this last time i
live right around the block so i
my my office is or my wi-fi
is ifixit wi-fi it's so it's very nice
all right so we're back
we'll keep going give our audio and
video guys a break they're doing their
best doing their best makes it
super stressful so give them some love
tons of hurdles today
we're just jumping over them we're
clearing them tackling problems as they
come
2020 is hard enough we don't need to get
mad about bad audio and video
i want to give a shout out to everyone
who gave us an f in the chat
that really we felt every one of those
right here we really appreciate
all those respects um yeah now that
we're live let's jump back into it i
guess
yeah let's keep going so where did we
leave
off we left off with me struggling to
get the taptic engine out
and i think there's a standoff bit in
there yes
that uh i so
to just a disclaimer to make me look
less dumb
i am trying to hold the phone like two
feet away from me so that you guys can
see in the top down cam
so i and i i wear glasses like you see
but they're not perfect so i just had a
hard time seeing those standoff screws
but once we were offline
conveniently i was able to hold the
phone a little closer
and found the standoff screws got the
taptic
engine out and again like we mentioned
earlier
it's kind of a baby compared to the old
taptic engine
but still does a decent job hopefully
i'm guessing uh so a lot of people have
asked about the battery so i'm just
gonna go ahead and say the specs so the
iphone 12 and the ipo
the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 pro they
share the same battery
and it's at 2815 milliamp hours
so some people put that in the chat but
some people are still asking for it so
just wanted to call that out real quick
oh here it is
2815 milliamp hours
and i'm gonna take out the cameras now
and then we can take the battery out
but like you said yes battery is
2815 and that is actually
smaller than most recent iphones
including the
11 and the 11 pro
which is kind of sad like last year they
made the iphone 11
a little bit thicker and it was like
dang it's cool like the the phones
really had great battery life
and now they've got 5g in here and
they've got
i have a lot to say about the battery
smaller and
this yeah just tough look for apple
out here making things small and kk we
we talked about this before we went live
but the the 12
is actually thinner than the 10s
and the 11. i i looked at it we were
comparing against
our 11s and this doesn't have a screen
on it anymore
so it's not a great comparison but uh
the 11
or the yeah the 11 and the 10s look
thicker because they
wait no opposite this one looks thicker
because it's
a straight edge and these look thinner
because they have a rounded edge but in
actuality the
12 is the thinnest iphone for a couple
years back
which is sad yeah all right just
checking out the chat a little bit we're
getting some love from malaysia it's 2
a.m
thank you for tuning in to watch this at
2
8 at 2 a.m uh and
someone wants to know what our first
impression was when we took off the back
cover
uh i don't really know yet i think the
adhesive was a little bit harder for
taylor to get off
yeah the adhesive was a little tough
first impressions
i would say like it's an iphone it was
my first impression
everything is organized and neat
uh everything is backwards that i guess
was one thing we didn't mention
specifically but uh last year
the last couple years we've had battery
on the left logic board
on the right and this year we have
battery on the right logic board on the
left
and there are a number of theories why
that is
but i think part of it was they had to
make the logic board
a little bigger for 5g and camera
reasons
so i just had to swap it because
on this side they couldn't make it any
bigger because cameras are up here
speakers down here but over here they
add a little more room to
play with so just one theory we don't
know for sure but
yeah first impressions it's backwards
it's an iphone
first impressions it's an iphone that's
that's my favorite uh so we have some
love from atlanta
oh in south africa london korea another
malaysia
uk wow dang all sorts of people
tuning into the stream we appreciate you
suffering with us through all of our
technical difficulties
how is our audio sync doing everyone's
saying it's great
so it sounds like everything is
back i feel like i need to pay more
attention to chat i'm
i have a hard time no you're you're
doing the disassembly you're doing great
i
got i got chat i did see in the chat
that i should focus more on disassembly
so
i will do that so taylor is going to
take
out cameras yes i'm working on cameras
now
and i am currently annoyed
at how many different screws there are
so
like i said before screws are mostly the
same
and maybe it's just because i'm not
familiar with the phone uh
but there there have been a couple odd
odd things like uh we went from y triple
zero to phillips which is
normal but there were like some y triple
zeros down here
in the mix with the phillips and the
camera was
this camera bracket has been y triple
zero but there's like one random
phillips up here
and that may not seem like a big deal
but really like every tool change
is like another step that you have to do
for repair
and that can make a big difference
that's
one more tool that you need to have for
to do even do the repair
so it doesn't seem like a big deal but
apple's use of tons of screws
in seemingly like random places
is it's kind of a tough look
especially when samsung phones just use
phillips screws all the time
maybe that's what you were going to say
sorry oh no i was just going to say
uh keeping screws organized is really
important during repair
yeah we have a magnetic mat for sale
which is really nice
so i was actually trying to you can use
anything to keep your screws organized
and
i actually love hearing all of the
different ways that you keep your
repairs organized
we did a post recently that wrapped up
all of the different ways that people
used a screw organization one person
used cupcake tins
which i'd never seen before other people
use post-its but i will caution you i
was doing an
i was failing at an ipad repair a few
months ago and i was just using bins
and i was using a hair dryer and the
screws just flew everywhere
so i'm definitely spoiled by fixit tools
and the magnetic mat is like one of my
favorite go-to tools in my arsenal and
it just pays out dividends
it does i have one over here i'm not
going to show it to you because it's a
mess i can't uh
can't be organized and livestream so i'm
sorry
uh yeah here we have the camera which is
sort of exciting uh last year's cameras
i didn't disassemble this phone enough
to get to the cameras yesterday but
uh the differences here are
nice but not uh groundbreaking like a
lot of the reviewers are saying
this isn't really worth an upgrade from
the 11 for the cameras
but one thing that's cool is we get a
new
lens on the standard wide camera which
is this guy here
and the lens is optically stabilized
so you can see it move around here but
the new lens lets in more light which
gives you better low light photos but
it's working with the same
sensor so which is not uncommon like
google has been using the same camera
sensor in their phones for the last four
years or whatever
so uh just kind of a minor improvement
here
what i'm really excited for is the 12
pro max which has
like a giant new sensor i'm guessing
that it will be like
galaxy no nope no well i mean they put
it in the s
the galaxy s20 and the note 20 have that
giant sensor it'll be like the iphone
12 naming conventions are right so the
iphone 12 pro max
has a sensor that's 47
larger which is just like crazy big
uh we're a little sad that that didn't
make it into the iphone 12 pro
but when we tear down the iphone 12 pro
max we'll definitely be comparing it to
samsung's
giant 108 megapixel monster that they
put in their phone
so if there are any other comparisons
that you guys want us to make definitely
let us know
and i just gotta share taylor some of
these funny screw comments someone said
that they just eat the screws someone
else said
that they use the grease under their
belly
to keep the screws organized yes that is
quite a picture
yeah that is pretty great um
keep giving me your screw tips
so that's gonna get me some spam
i'm going here for the this is just like
a
a space filler basically it's a piece of
plastic right here
next to the cameras these so the the 12
pro and the 12 are so identical
that the 12 the 12 here instead of a
third camera they just
put a piece of plastic here to fill that
space
so maybe we can talk about that right
now the
these two phones the 12 and the 12 pro
are so similar that like a lot of these
parts
are we're hoping interchangeable which
is really cool that makes
repair a lot easier that makes sourcing
parts a lot easier
uh but yeah they're so similar that
rather than
like redesign this they just are using a
little
bracket here to fill that space that's
just
so wild to me so it's the same camera
and there's literally just like a
plastic bumper
for the standard iphone 12 where uh the
uh
yeah that's wild that they put that in
but we're gonna do
a whole slew of parts compatibility
testing yeah
from what we can see the iphone 12 and
the iphone 12 pro
they have the same dimensions screen
size resolution
the batteries are the same the taptic
engine looks the same so we'll
definitely be testing that
uh the logic boards look the same
but we already know from benchmarks that
the ram is different
and then the cameras have different and
then the board has a different connector
for lidar on the pro
yep um yeah and the
it's just so interesting the
oh there is kind of something on this
little bumper i don't know what this is
a magnet maybe a piece of metal all the
magnets if you guys know what that is
drop it in the chat
uh anyway the differences between these
two phones are so interesting because
they're
they're so close to each other like this
this is the maybe the two
closest iphones in terms of specs that
have been
in the lineup like this like they are
basically blow for blow until you get to
like we mentioned the display camera
differences and then
what else like is that it display camera
oh and you get uh the pro raw
yeah you get the pro phones which is
really cool
uh we don't need to like dive into
camera nerd stuff but but i'm kind of
excited for that
so i am not a camera nerd uh taylor
is the only person on my team who takes
zoom calls with his dslr and he looks
like a
just like a professional streamer while
the rest of us
don't look like that so i don't think
this is a magnet so well it's like
kind of magnetic it might be a little
magnet i don't know
we'll talk about that later i'm going to
keep plowing on
like i said i do use dslr for our webcam
calls i think i just think it's fun
he puts the rest of our webcaming to
shame
okay with those things out of the way i
think i'm gonna go for the battery
unless i mean this won't be the end
how much time do we have has it been an
hour oh my gosh it's been an hour i
don't know we started real late then we
started late
we had technical difficulties we'll
we'll keep going a little bit i'll go
for the battery
so we already mentioned that the battery
in the iphone 12 and 12 pro
are the same uh they have
815 milliamp hours i absolutely hate
reading specs so i'm not going to do
that again
uh but i'm really curious to see how 5g
is going to affect battery life yeah me
too we really don't know
5g isn't we could rant about 5g for a
while but instead i recommend
watch the verge casts last episode
they spent the first 30 minutes of their
last episode just
talking about 5g and why we're not ready
for it yet so they did a great job
i love neela and dieter so you should
check that out
um should we check in on the oops
machine
yes the oops machine it's probably still
going in circles
but uh let's check it out while i i'm
just trying to peel up these battery
strips so that's kind of boring
let's see where we are at looks like we
have a close-up
on the uh impact zone
sorry someone said give me your screw
tips that's what she said
and i am a huge office fan i actually
met rayne wilson dressed as recyclops at
my last comic-con
so you win in my heart
how's the oops machine doing everyone is
it oops
it's it's oopsing i'm gonna be real
curious to see what happens when you
pull the phone out
yeah me too so speaking of 5g
i don't know if you guys caught the
rumors but there were a ton of rumors
that
apple had to make some compromises on
their design to be able to allow for 5g
and i don't know if you remember from
our teardown last year
they had like the really cool fancy
l-shaped battery
which we don't have this year and they
also had like the double connector
which we assumed would be for bilateral
charging
which we also don't see this year so i
think it is safe to say that there are
definitely
some battery compromises that were made
to account for 5g
and not only battery compromises but the
internal construction of this phone
looks a lot different and with the
smaller taptic
engine and how they've moved the boards
around uh they had to do that to be able
to
get the antennas in for 5g so
it'll be interesting or i'm really
interested to see how other
manufacturers are going to handle this
we haven't seen
i haven't seen a ton of 5g phones yet so
it'll be fun and if you know of anything
that other companies have done to
account for 5g let me know
i was really surprised to see apple go
with 5g for this phone
at all like just historically they are
the last ones to almost every trend
so having them be i mean they're
definitely not
first to 5g but having them jump on the
5g
hype train before like it's established
and things are like normalized i guess
is really interesting i think carriers
are just like
pushing oh yeah i'm curious so
hard and they're making it like so easy
to trade in your old phone they're
pretty much
the discounts that they're offering on
this are pretty insane uh taylor i
wanted to mention that someone said
that the little metal camera thing that
you had mentioned is for
stabilizing for recurring better videos
and pics
so maybe that's a thing idk
i am skeptical about that someone's
asking if you can disable 5g
well it still comes in the phone yeah
the you
you can't buy the phone without 5g but
the phones actually
ship with a setting enabled that uses
5g in a smart way it's intelligent so
if you're not downloading something then
the 5g radios are disabled
which is the smart thing to do like
that's
5g is not standard or common enough
to be on all the time especially with
our current battery technology
but uh yeah i don't know still just
questionable
having another phone at all especially
with smaller batteries
i think in time 5g will be amazing i
mean it is pretty cool the speeds that
they're clocking when you are like
directly below a tower that allows for
it yeah it's amazing it's amazing
but it just almost never happens
i love this noise this is a great noise
uh i'm i have like a shoddy history with
these strips so i'm like trying to be
super careful but
i'll try to get it close to the mic so
you guys can hear it nice and
i lost it
yeah maybe you heard that maybe you
didn't we'll never know
i heard it i liked it are there four or
two
that are strips yeah there are four so
there is a thick one here
and then there's a thin one here and
then on the top there's a thin one and a
thick one
which is i i can't remember do you have
the turn
pulled up i can't remember how many
there were last year i think there were
four four or five maybe last year in the
pro phones
oh yeah because the the iphone 11 was
the rectangular battery
so it did have four the l-shaped battery
and the pro i think had
five or six so someone says please be
careful
thank you for caring about our safety
and someone else said that's some
serious asmr stuff
yeah again if you missed earlier in the
stream uh we did an asmr teardown of the
pixel 4a on the channel about a month
ago so if you're into asmr
definitely check that out we did
specifically call it
what did we call it we call it a very
quiet asmr turnout or no
we called it very quiet pixel 4a
teardown because
we know that asmr is so subjective and
it's also
something that takes a lot of skill to
produce
so it was like we we tried our best and
it i i thought the video turned out
entertaining and it was
kind of asmr for me but yeah we
it was a lot of fun to try so
you guys are making me really laugh with
these questions someone wants to know
what the phone smells like
so okay i will smell this phone smell
test first iphone 12 smell test here
clip it i really wish i had something to
say about how this smells
but unfortunately it just doesn't smell
like anything
sorry i got nothing we wiped everything
down
so it kind of smells like cleaner at the
moment
uh cool uh it sounds like maybe
they're having a little trouble with
taylor's audio
so uh-oh sorry about that we'll work on
that i'm not saying anything interesting
anyway
i didn't want you to hear me i don't i
do not like pulling these strips up
i don't know does it smell like a new
car
nah but i can't even remember the last
time i was in a new car so
maybe i don't know uh which cleaner
the one in this room that i don't know
it had a wipe on it
the blue one smells like lavender that's
pretty cool
uh let's see
all right i'm pulling this off someone
mentioned that apple should have gone
with the 120
hertz refresh rate couldn't agree more i
would love that
i think that would be great i think that
i mean i don't know if anyone can hear
me but if anyone can hear me
oh they can uh the
there's no way these films would have
lasted more than
you know a couple hours with 120 hertz i
i am sure apple tried to make it happen
at some point but just with the
other design constraints they were
working with
and i'm sure pressure from carriers to
go with 5g
uh there was no way someone wants me to
taste the phone and i think i gotta draw
the line guys
i don't think i'm gonna taste the phone
i think that's a good line to draw yeah
so you said the displays of the 12 and
the 12 pro are the same so we have not
confirmed that but we will be confirming
that later
uh they look the same we suspect they're
the same
but you got to do the parts testing and
swap them out to make sure that
everything works so we're gonna do that
we will do that in our step-by-step
teardown which again you can find
linked in the description below now
somebody asked
what the battery capacity is again and
i'm just gonna let someone else put that
in the check
i'm not gonna say it again
i'll let you read it right here yeah you
can uh it's upside down you could deal
with that on your own
um what were we saying i think we're
just talking about 5g people want a
close-up of that a14 chip
hey jake thanks for tuning in oh we
so to see the a14 chip we have to
take the logic board apart it's uh
it's one of the layered logic boards so
you won't see that
until the step-by-step teardown which
again
is linked in the description below it
already has some content in it we
took apart a magsafe charger the other
day
so you can go check that out while i
destroy these battery strips they are
not coming up very easily
so i don't know who this person is but
they said apple's obsessed with the
thickness of the phone i'd be happy
if the phone is 30 thicker with a larger
battery
thus enabling 120 hertz and i couldn't
agree more
i think that would be a really good
trade-off i have just succumbed to the
fact that
phones will never ever fit in my pocket
again
i'm also very small i am 5'1 when i wake
up in the mornings
so i would be fine with a bigger battery
or even a bigger phone
um yeah i agree with you and i thought
i honestly thought that was the
direction we were headed in
because like like we talked about the
the iphone 11 was like pretty thick
and they made the battery bigger and it
was like
everyone said this is great like this
this is what we wanted this is
still very bearable in terms of
thickness
so i i thought that we would get that
but i guess not
sorry that i keep laughing while you're
talking taylor there's just
a lot of funny things that people are
putting in the chat
someone asked if we could do the
teardown standing on our heads
no because i can't even stand on my head
but i will say that kelsey weber
one of my closest friends uh she
actually did
a one-handed battery swap on the channel
last year
so i duct taped her and she did the
whole thing with one hand
so if she can do a battery swap with one
hand anybody could do it
okay i'm really sorry i'm having a hard
time with these
battery strips they do not want to come
up
we talked about batteries what else can
we talk about
so i we made an outline of things that
we wanted to hit here that's what i'm
looking at over here
let's see so i'm trying to keep up with
the chat but it's going a little bit
faster now um
so why can others have 120 hertz and not
apple
because apple made a very thin small
phone
we think we don't know uh do you think
they'll make a battery case for them
that's a good question with magsafe in
the equation
like i am here for the 2020
mag safe accessory game yeah you like it
no
i think it's stupid but like i am just
here
to like see what's gonna happen so early
reviewers have already showed that the
wallet
that i thought was actually kind of cool
they like pop off pretty easily
so didn't work great yeah that was a
bummer
yeah i'm wondering what that's gonna do
for pop sockets i have wrist issues
already so texting on a phone is hard
for me so if you can't keep a pop socket
there and our phones get bigger
that's not going to be great
yeah i think it's it's going to be a
tough year for
pop socket and for tile since apple's
supposedly making that a little tracking
device you know
so i don't know i i don't think
like you said the magnets are
not strong enough to really like replace
a pop socket
but just like having an iphone 12
you if you put a pop socket on the phone
you're sacrificing mac safe basically
you can't really have both of them
so i don't know it's going to be tough
and so if you don't well
i didn't know about wireless charging
before i worked it i fix it
but wireless charging is just a lot less
efficient
than charging with a cord and for lots
of reasons
eric ravenscraft who is one of my
favorite writers he wrote a piece on
medium that actually detailed how less
efficient he was and i don't want to get
this statistic
wrong but he gave the stats on that
but now with this magnet it should be
able to align
better and we should see a lot of
improvements in the efficiency of
wireless charging so that will be
interesting to benchmark
i believe there are a couple people
working on that story already
and so that's pretty exciting uh someone
wants to know how many magnets there are
i think uh 18 was the count
at least for magsafe specifically in the
back of the phone
and then someone says if you break the
battery tabs just close your eyes rub
the battery
and say pop socket again it will just
slip out thank you later okay
so closing my eyes you rub the battery
here you go did it work it didn't work
all right
uh the one i'm struggling with isn't
actually the battery strips
it's so before you can pull the strips
you have to like they are glued
the the head of the strip is glued to
the bottom of the battery or the top
here
and those the pullers are really fragile
in this phone for some reason so like
i'm just having a hard time peeling
those up
to then pull the strip out so
so someone wants to know what phone we
use i use the iphone
10s i also use the iphone 10s
i am sort of thinking about getting the
mini
the 12 minutes because i have
wanted a small phone for a long time now
and i don't know like the mini is
really appealing you know are you
tempted at all by these
i don't know uh the 10s is still a great
though tennis is a great phone
the thing that attracts me the most to
these
versions of phones or the cameras the
iphone i'm not a professional
photographer but the iphone 12 pro max
just the camera on that is absolutely
insane
so that's cool i like taking pictures of
my cat
i recently got a kitten as you can well
you can't see but my hands are super
scratched up and i would love to take
better pictures of my kitten in low
light i will say that the 10s camera in
low light is not great super pixelated
it definitely struggles a little bit
but that's okay like when when you're
not in low light it does a pretty good
job
so do we have a magnet
magnemeter to measure the strength of
the magnets
not on me but i do have some bits that i
could start seeing
i could uh okay so yeah we did
we did want to test how many bits the
magnets can hold we we do have
magnet paper like marquez used in his
video
uh but he kind of already showed you
guys that so
if you haven't seen mkbhd's video he
uses magnet paper to kind of show you
where the magnets are that's pretty cool
okay i finally got these strips ready to
pull
but there's a cable in the way here that
didn't used to be there
it's for the power button on the side
here
and it's a little bit in the way i'm
going to try to pull these out though
so someone just asked when the genius
bar replaces your battery why don't they
give you the old one
so i gotta put my like e-waste hat on
right now
batteries have to be recycled properly
at an e-waste facility and please don't
throw batteries in the trash
because if you batteries are actually
the number one reason
for recycling fires at e-waste
facilities
recyclers have to disassemble an entire
phone
i know because we tour recycling
facilities all the time we're partnered
with some of them
and they actually have to use ifixit
guides to take the phone apart get the
battery out safely before they can
break out all the different commodities
and so
if you imagine something like air pods
that battery is incredibly hard to get
out and so
things like air pods end up in a
shredder and they can cause battery
fires
and so that's probably why apple doesn't
give you the battery back they're
probably recycling it the right way
hopefully yeah hopefully but
yeah that's it i guess it's it's kind of
like
well it's not kind of like this but it's
like when you
uh when you have an operation they take
take your kidney or something and you
want to take it home
uh but i i don't know if they actually
let you do that but
you can't do that with your battery if
it does have sentimental value
and you wanted to keep your old battery
you can replace it yourself and then you
get to keep it
okay i finally got that strip out
working on the last
oh yeah almost there so someone asked
what do you guys think if apple did
a special edition for the iphone 12
just this time they did trade off for 5g
with 4g and add up the 120
hertz refresh rate yeah absolutely i
would go for that phone
for sure 5g especially here in the
states
we're not there yet so in a couple years
i think it's going to be
gangbusters and great but i would 100
trade in
for 120 hertz refresh rate that would be
baller
and i am a little bit jealous of people
with phones with that because they look
really good
they do look really good i i would love
to have been
in the room where that discussion
happened because i am sure that
discussion happened at apple like
should we have 120 hertz or should we
have 5g
and then the carriers are like outside
banging on the window like 5g please 5g
and unfortunately they won so someone
asked what the battery strips are for
so that's a really good question yeah
battery strips hold the battery down
into the phone so it doesn't shake
around in the case i would way rather
have battery adhesive strips that pull
out versus just gluing the battery to
the phone
or dare i say soldering down the battery
to the phone yeah
apple likes to solder down components
all of the time
so we love adhesive strips we wish they
were in more things they are in
ipads but they're taylor correct me if
i'm wrong they're not in laptop they're
not in any macbooks yet
adhesive strips yeah they are in one
macbook
okay the macbook air okay so which is
really funny
yeah i replaced a battery on a 2015
retina macbook pro
on the channel and they had to bleep me
out
at least 100 times it was like a two
hour process and i swore up and down and
it was a really really hard
repair so battery strips are great
oh no audio off
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bleep bleep
is it is it all audio no audio i don't
know we got a few people saying
no sound f in the chat if audio's broken
a in the chat if audio is great and
you've never heard better audio
audio seems to be off
no it's okay someone tell me if this
audio is working because half of you say
it's working and half of you say it's
not working
and okay audio is fine
maybe a in the chat
i love the a's in the chat all right you
guys can hear us we're gonna keep going
no sound for certain countries i'm so
sorry oh somebody
said i'm finally looking at the chat uh
somebody said
answer please i'm answering
does the magnetic field from the iphone
affect the environment in any way
because there's going to be a lot of
iphones because they're talking about
environmental health
so magnetic field affecting the
environment
that is a great question that i do not
have i have no answers to that i would
somebody else answer that i don't think
the
the presence of magnets has an effect
on the environment maybe the
well apple did say they're using 100
recycled magnets
so that is good uh
at least in some way i would be more
concerned about
how magnets will affect other
electronics
in the wild like most things account for
that for sure the iphones account for
that but like
uh how they're gonna if you just put a
bare iphone in your pocket with
a credit card like will that be a
problem or
if you accidentally put your iphone on i
don't know
other things that might be affected i
would be more concerned about that
someone said that the magnetic field
will steal your soul
that is possible confirmed by nasa
not really that was a joke another joke
please don't tell anyone that
all right someone else said that it
won't affect the environment but it may
affect the hdd
oh the hard drive device uh it i i'm
sure apple has taken that into account
it might affect
a hard dot like if you were to put your
iphone down on your computer hard drive
if you still have a hard drive for your
computer that would probably be a
problem
getting back to iphone disassembly sorry
everyone we got the battery out
and all the strips worked once i was
able to
get the dumb little tabs up
the actual adhesive stretch release is
great
just like previous iphones it works well
didn't have any problems other than this
cable here which was kind of annoying uh
and i just
couldn't again i'm far from the phone i
couldn't look
uh to get it out of the way but battery
is out
like we said 28 15 milliamp hours
that's been confirmed elsewhere but
there it is for you again
this is significantly smaller than
this battery in the iphone 11 like you
can see here
that's very sad we talked about that
so i guess it's been sort of an hour
i this is a fairly logical stopping
point we can keep going i can pull out
the
sim tray and logic board like i said we
won't be able to see the a14 chip
until the step-by-step teardown uh what
do you guys think in the chat
do you want to keep going we can stop
here and
i can get started with the team on step
by step
or uh what are we thinking they want to
look at the 5g antennas
oh i did want to look at that too thank
you chad yeah
uh so for sure we know this
fingerprint reader looking guy right
here
is a window for an antenna which
is likely a 5g millimeter wave antenna
like you mentioned before uh well
we don't want to dive too deep in 5g
there are two kinds of 5g
millimeter wave doesn't travel very far
so the antennas are very sensitive
that's why there's a window here for it
and so i'm guessing there is a
millimeter wave antenna
just right here next to the window i'm
gonna see if we can get there easily
and uh meanwhile maybe we could go
grab the oops machine phone and check it
out
people want us to keep going okay i'm
down to keep going for a minute
i do want to get to helping the team
soon-ish just so chat knows
not trying to bail on you just want to
get the step-by-step teardown ready for
you guys as soon as possible
and so we're not like working until
midnight tonight
which would be sad which we probably
will so so you guys know
tear downs take a heck ton of people we
have all of our engineers
working to do a full analysis doing chip
id
doing all of the things that we still
want to discover after this first look
in this teardown
so we're going to get started on that
soon um
but yeah if there's any other content
you want to see
just let us know and we will make that
happen for you
we work for you and before i fix it
but mostly for you we're not trying to
bail on you guys
but this is why you should check out the
written teardown in the description
below and also get subscribed to
this channel so that you can see the
full video of the
12 pro that we do later i mean we're
going to film that as soon as we're done
here
but it probably won't be out for a
couple days uh someone asked if there'll
be a more efficient way to remove the
battery so i just want to say
props to taylor this is the first time
he's taking apart this phone ever
and we always we always like to say we
will break our device first so you don't
have to there's a thousand different
ways to do a repair
and usually we get better in time as we
do it over and over again
as our community of fixers tells us
better ways to do things
when i did my macbook pro retina swap
a lot of people in the comments had told
me that you can use some floss
and like acetone to pull out the battery
versus doing it the way that i did it
with
which was just like 200 swear words and
prying
so there's always more than one way to
do a repair and this is just our first
shot at it so i'm sure that we will get
better in time
and we'll figure that out and what i
like to do with batteries is i
just don't even try with the adhesive
strips anymore i drop a little bit of
adhesive remover in there
i fix it cells adhesive remover and that
usually does the trick but you have to
be really careful because you can damage
other components in the board or other
components in the phone as well
i am okay
what is this screw right here so
i would like to know if the iphone 12
can stick to the refrigerator i'm pretty
sure it can because i believe i saw that
on twitter
i wanted to test that too that's very
important to know
is this hey hira what is this this metal
i think that might be metal give it a
shot
do it i wonder can they see that in the
wide shot
i don't know find out
no no not sticking well might not be
metal we don't know
might not be metal i do
my my guess is that yes it would stick
to a fridge
someone wants to know why you would
stick your phone on a fridge why not
dude
i have that same answer why not dude
uh okay
okay so to get to this little window
antenna here
we are looking at this annoying cable
which i kind of got out of the way now
and
uh there are little brackets over the
power button here which i'm
hopefully not going to have to take out
and then below that
there's another bracket over the antenna
here which i think
there are screws under this sticker yep
uh again i want to say how annoying it
is
uh there are so many different screw
types in this phone
like when you when you take apart a
galaxy phone a samsung phone
it's phillips screws all the way down
and that
goes a very long way to making the
repair easy this
is like again it's kind of hard because
i'm far away from the phone i'm like
trying to look at what the screw type is
but it's just so much easier when you
know they're all phillips and you don't
have to look
okay is this a try point is this a
phillips and you're constantly switching
drivers
and the worst part is like you mentioned
putting it back together is just going
to be a nightmare
yeah don't sneeze yeah don't sneeze like
actually
the the screws are really really tiny
someone wants me to try to put it on the
red toolbox behind me
that's a good idea that kind of looks
more i'm gonna do that
oh it feels like it kind of stuck
it wants to
not strong enough but i do feel a pull
it's definitely pulling towards it
okay i was
i was scrolled up in the chat and
because last time i was reading comments
was when we didn't have sound
and so i just looked over at chat and it
said no sound and i like
freaked out for a minute this has been
like
one of the more technical difficulty
filled live streams that we've had
thank you all for sticking with us yeah
let's just blanket blame 2020. just
kidding um
we aren't in the studio very often
anymore this is the first time our live
streams ever dropped
ever so that yeah kudos to us for that
from never dropping before but of course
it happened today
because iphones alright
these are phillips screws
and they are coming up
is there anything else that we haven't
covered on our uh
outline sheet that we wanted to talk
about oh we
we mentioned lidar uh lidar is in the
pro phones
which is not again this phone this is
the standard
12. um we did a video
some of you might have seen it we did a
video on the
ipad pro 2020 which also had lidar
and lidar is basically just like
bouncing light off things and then it
comes back and you can measure
depth information how far away the
sensor is from whatever thing
and apple really has been on the
ar augmented reality train for a while
and this is
another step toward that i i'm not
surprised that it's in the pro phones
yeah and we also uh kevin our writer
here at ifixit put out a lidar explainer
and it includes
a cat from our ipad air video and it's
great
and one of the things that i gleaned
from that was lidar is kind of like
a weird acronym they essentially smushed
the word light into radar
and that's why it is capitalized really
strangely
so it's like l i capital d a r because
it just got merged into one so if
someone could drop the link
to that blog in the chat everyone else
can
learn some things about lidar as well
gotta love the english language
yeah uh how much ram is being used
some sorry someone said half lion half
tiger and that's
that's fantastic uh we'll disclose the
ram and our full step-by-step teardown
which
will get published live here pretty soon
over on ifixit and the
link is in the description so be sure to
check that out
okay this is definitely looking like a
millimeter wave antenna here
it's not coming out easily i'm guessing
it might be
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a little stuck in there with glue i'm
gonna try to pull it out
sorry someone just said philippines and
uh that's where both of my parents are
from
so what up thank you for joining
i got it i think
it moved yep there we go
this looks different okay
so again if you uh just tuned in
i just pulled out the what i think
is a millimeter wave antenna
from the fingerprint sensor looking guy
right here
this i wish i had a galaxy note phone
here because
those phones have 5g antennas
in the frame as well that's like that's
something we've seen before
but this one looks very different this
is i guess
this looks like an apple 5g antenna
there's there's no other way to say it
it's shiny the other ones are like
green and caterpillar looking this is
shiny a lot smaller i wonder if this is
like
just the next uh step in 5g technology
we
we don't know for sure where apple's
getting this stuff from but
this looks definitely more refined than
i've seen before
thanks okay that's 5g
um i i think we should go get the oops
machine yeah i think we should go get
the phone we have to go
tear down the 12 pro right after this
and you guys have been on the stream
with us for a while
so let's go get that uh should i go get
that or can someone go get that for me
i'll go get it okay i'll go get it i
will take out the face id
cameras and just kind of twiddle my
thumbs with chat
chat is there anything else you guys
want to see in this torn down phone
before
we talk about the oops machine phone and
kind of wrap up here
i will try to read as i disassemble kk
as my chat reader
oh someone mentioned repairability score
let
us know what you think so far my initial
impressions are
that this is mostly similar to the
iphone 11 and 11 pro and 11 pro max
which scored a 6 out of 10 on the
repairability scale
and so far i'm not seeing any major
deviations from that formula
and i'm guessing this is going to land
somewhere around there
let me know what you guys think and
we will know for sure uh when we publish
our step-by-step teardown later today
which again is linked in the description
below
everyone wants to see the magnets i
could
i could probably pull up this coil to
see the magnets
kk has the oops machine phone oh it's
wet i should have known that
taylor i think i owe you a hashbrown is
it working
it doesn't look that bad it's working
and it doesn't look to have a lot of
dings or scratches on it
from whatever you sand on it there is
some sand on it
i have a cloth over here i'm gonna wipe
it down
we are still on a call i'm gonna end
that
okay so this phone was in the oops
machine
if you were not here for the beginning
when we introduced the hoops machine
basically this phone was in a harness
and it went in a circle and just like
ran into hammers
and went through water and things like
that so it's been doing that for the
last
hour again not a very scientific
durability test we're gonna wait for
jerryrig to do that and other people
but everything seems to be working
thank you apple for the app library yes
this is where
this area up top is where the hammer and
the other tools were making contact with
the phone
and again i'm kind of far from the
camera here i
can't see like a major paintings
do you even see any when i took a
cursory look at it i couldn't really see
i think i see yeah there's there's like
one
one scratch right here which might be
easier to see with the screen off
um okay yeah there are a couple little
scratches here
but i mean nobody look at that very
secret password uh
everything is working let's check the
cameras i guess
and a few people have asked us what we
think the repairability score will be
oh i talked about that while you were
gone oh you can talk yeah talk about it
again
what did you guess uh i said this is
basically
looking pretty similar to previous
iphones like
yeah like so it will probably score
around there uh we obviously have more
things to take into consideration
that we can't discuss here for time
reasons but
uh i i'm guessing that's where it's
gonna land i did ask people to guess in
the chat i don't know if
people did oops machine phone i am going
to call
a success i officially unofficially
deem this to be oops proof and i
owe taylor hashbrown because i said it
would get dinged up
and again i just want to say for the
millionth time
we know that test was not scientific so
we're not that was mostly just for fun
uh but it is cool to see that it
survived
the water and the sand i wonder if it
still charges i don't have a charging
cable over here but
i'm i'm guessing that everything is
a-okay whoa
all right and so with that we appreciate
you all sticking with us through all of
the technical difficulties that we had
today
and we hope you will tune in to our
step-by-step teardown
that we're gonna get live very shortly
after this
and then we're gonna be spending the
weekend doing some parts testing and
parts compatibility swapping so
definitely tune into that we'll also
have
wallpapers for you guys early next week
so you can pretend to tear down your
iphone we have
iphone wallpapers for all of the iphones
up until now and that's it yeah
uh let us know here in the chat or in
the
comments of the step-by-step teardown
uh if you guys want to see anything as
we
do the step-by-step teardown again
that's live now
and we will just be uh pushing steps out
as we finish them
so stay tuned there and thank you all
for bearing with us
hope this was uh at least sort of
entertaining if you want to see more
streams let us know
yeah let us know we like these streams
technical difficulties aside are a lot
of fun to do it's fun to be back in the
office and chat with kk
and this yeah this is this is fun yeah
all right take care guys see ya bye
you