0:00: As an Android user, the more I learn 0:02: about this iPhone 17 Pro, the more I 0:05: like it. Rumor is that this orange 0:07: iPhone 17 Pro has a new vapor chamber 0:10: inside, and it's surprisingly 0:12: repairable, with an asterisk, of course. 0:15: My new toolkit collab with iFixit has 32 0:18: high precision bits inside, and knowing 0:20: Apple, I'll probably have to use all of 0:22: them. The most commonly repaired 0:24: components, like the screen and the 0:26: battery, are going to be accessible from 0:27: the front. But since the back panel is 0:30: made from glass, and as we know, glass 0:32: is glass, let's pop that off first to 0:34: see how hard it'll be to fix. One thing 0:36: I didn't immediately realize or 0:38: recognize is that Apple has found a 0:40: rather ingenious way to tie both the 0:42: back glass and the front glass into the 0:45: same set of pentalobe screws at the 0:47: bottom of the phone. So, as I'm heating 0:49: up that back glass and carefully 0:51: separating it from the aluminum frame 0:53: with my suction cup and ultra thin pry 0:55: tool, taking out those bottom two screws 0:58: first would have made my life a whole 0:59: lot easier. Learning from other people's 1:01: mistakes, though, is quicker than making 1:03: them all yourself. So, I'm just helping 1:05: future you out with your own repairs. 1:08: With the back glass off, there's a thin 1:09: ribbon cable in the upper left corner 1:11: that connects the 25watt wireless 1:13: charger to the motherboard. We don't 1:15: know the official cost of these 1:17: replacement pieces just yet, but since 1:19: magnets lose about 1% of their strength 1:21: every 10 years or so, 1:25: pretty much all of these will need to be 1:27: replaced by the year 3000. Just 1:29: something to budget for. Taking out the 1:32: two pentalobe screws is easy. Something 1:34: I should have done first thing. Another, 1:36: you know, minorly catastrophic issue I 1:38: had was that instead of lifting up as 1:40: hard as I should have with the suction 1:42: cup, I inserted my thin pry tool far too 1:44: early and killed the screen. It looks 1:47: like I won't be joining the blue bubble 1:48: gang after all. I'll show you the damage 1:50: here in a second, but I should have 1:52: lifted up on the screen until a gap was 1:54: clearly visible and then gently worked 1:56: my way around the edges after that to 1:58: slice away the adhesive. I'm obviously 2:01: making these mistakes on purpose so as 2:02: to demonstrate what not to do. This 2:05: phone has given up the ghost so that 2:06: others may live. And there are plenty of 2:09: nifty little noteworthy nuggets that we 2:11: can still find on the inside. Luckily, 2:13: if someone is removing the screen, 2:14: there's a very good chance that it's 2:16: already broken in the first place, so 2:18: you won't have to worry as much about it 2:19: surviving. 2:21: Apple, in their wisdom to make repairs 2:23: easier and more foolproof, have copied a 2:25: page out of the Pixels textbook and 2:27: included a barrier between where the 2:29: screen sits and the rest of the phone, 2:31: protecting the battery. It's way harder 2:33: to break something when it's protected 2:34: by metal. I mean, look at Iron Man. You 2:37: can see where I sliced into the screen 2:38: on the lower portion when I inserted my 2:41: tool in too early. The screen has two 2:43: ribbons on the left side with a Phillips 2:45: head screw holding down the Lego style 2:47: ribbon connector. This iPhone 17 Pro 2:49: screen could be replaced by an 2:51: experienced technician in about 2 2:53: minutes. Apple does now sell replacement 2:55: parts directly to customers, which is 2:57: pretty cool of them. Thumbs up for that. 2:59: The front-facing camera and face unlock 3:01: hardware is still inside the phone. 3:03: Something I've always wish these cameras 3:05: could do, though, is take a picture of 3:06: anyone who's attempted to unlock my 3:08: phone without my permission. You know, 3:10: for an extra layer of security. Luckily, 3:12: my favorite security app and the sponsor 3:14: of today's video, Bit Defender, is able 3:17: to do exactly that. And you can try it 3:19: free for 90 days. I'll remove the 17 3:21: screws around the metal sheet that 3:23: protects the iPhone hardware. 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This is the same style 4:48: of metal enclosed battery we saw last 4:50: year with the electrically debonding 4:52: adhesive strip under the metal case. The 4:54: metal case around the battery adds an 4:56: extra layer of protection against 4:58: puncturing, 5:00: which as we saw on the Pixel 10 Pro 5:02: Fold, can be a pretty smoky experience. 5:05: The mid-frame also has the first ever 5:07: Apple Vapor Chamber attached to it. This 5:09: vapor chamber sits on top of the new A19 5:12: processor and keeps it cool so you can 5:14: scroll through fire memes more 5:16: efficiently. If the chip overheats, it 5:18: will throttle performance. Peeling back 5:20: the graphite layer reveals that we still 5:22: can't access the vapor chamber without 5:24: pulling off the battery first. The vapor 5:26: chamber appears to be very much a 5:28: permanent part of that midframe, though. 5:29: Android users have been familiar with 5:31: these things for the past 9 years. 5:33: Samsung's had one in their phones since 5:35: the Galaxy S7 back in 2016. But for the 5:38: Apple users just joining the party, the 5:40: way a vapor chamber works is that a 5:42: small drop of water gets inserted inside 5:44: the chamber and sealed up at the 5:47: factory. You can see the little droplets 5:49: of liquid still inside the chamber. Then 5:51: as the processor heats up that drop of 5:53: liquid, it evaporates, taking a lot of 5:55: the heat energy at the hot end of the 5:57: vapor chamber, traveling to the other 5:59: side, condensing back into liquid, 6:01: dispersing its heat, and gets ready to 6:04: repeat the process. Very similar to how 6:06: an air conditioner uses phase change to 6:08: cool down your house. The metal mesh 6:10: inside helps wick that liquid back to 6:12: the hot end so it can happen over and 6:14: over. Between the charging coil, metal 6:16: battery, and new age vapor chamber, the 6:18: iPhone 17 Pro is turning out to be even 6:20: cooler on the inside than it is on the 6:22: outside. Switching over to our fourth 6:24: screwdriver bit, a flathead to remove 6:27: the standoff screw. These are basically 6:29: a screw for holding a screw. A screw 6:31: within a screw. screw seion where one 6:34: screw screws into another screw for 6:36: holding multiple layers of components. 6:38: With the standoff screws removed, we can 6:40: pop out the Taptic Engine vibrator. I do 6:42: have a full vibrator review coming out 6:44: soon, so keep an eye out for that one. I 6:47: did some counting after this tearown was 6:49: all over, and there are more than 70 6:50: different size screws in this iPhone 17 6:53: Pro, so forgive me if I don't mark the 6:55: location of all of them this time 6:57: around. If you ever happen to find 6:58: yourself this deep in an iPhone 17 Pro, 7:01: you need way more help than I can give 7:03: or an exorcist. The front-facing camera 7:06: has the new square sensor inside. We 7:08: ripped one of these open in the iPhone 7:10: air tearown. So, if you want to see the 7:11: sensor, you can check out that video. 7:13: The rearfacing cameras are all 48 7:15: megapixels and tied together in one 7:17: large housing. Neither the ultrawide, 7:20: the telephoto, nor the main camera have 7:22: exterior optical image stabilization, 7:24: but the main camera and telephoto both 7:26: have sensor shift stabilization on the 7:29: inside, which is just as, if not more 7:32: capable than regular OIS. Sensor shift 7:34: is still a physical form of 7:36: stabilization. The upper loudspeaker 7:38: does look pretty normal. Remember, the 7:40: iPhone Air does not have stereo 7:42: speakers, while the iPhone 17 Pro does. 7:44: It does not however have any windows 7:47: where we could see the balls inside 7:48: which means we have to bust them open 7:50: instead. And indeed we do find balls 7:53: inside. These give the speaker sound 7:55: waves something to bounce off of inside 7:57: the box so the tiny speaker doesn't 7:59: sound like a 10 can. Balls make little 8:01: speakers sound bigger and more full than 8:03: they actually are. After a bunch more 8:05: screws are removed, I can pull away the 8:07: motherboard with its new A19 chip in it. 8:10: It's always shocking how tiny these 8:12: things are. The whole board is about the 8:14: size of a quarter or whatever coin this 8:16: is. Sorry if I forget your name. I'm 8:19: from the USA and we only care about 8:21: Argentina for some reason. Finally, the 8:23: last thing to come out of the phone is 8:25: the charging port. And for some reason, 8:27: Apple has more screws holding in this 8:29: singular port than Samsung uses in their 8:32: whole phone. I do not understand it. The 8:34: lower loudspeaker also has balls inside, 8:37: which is nifty. And there you go. The 8:39: whole iPhone torn down with its aluminum 8:41: body. an antenna line around the camera 8:44: plateau. I think this is by far the 8:46: coolest and most capable iPhone Apple 8:48: has ever made. All of the main repairs 8:50: are simple enough, like the screen, the 8:52: back glass, and the battery. And if I 8:55: was going to switch, this would be the 8:57: one I would buy. If I'm not going to 8:59: switch, but if I was, I'm just thinking 9:02: about it. Grab one of my tool kits for 9:04: your future self down in the 9:05: description. 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