Product Design How iFixit Scores Repairability Everyone wants their favorite phone or laptop to get an awesome repairability score. So do we! Unfortunately, we don’t make the rules. Wait a minute—we do make the rules! At… May 18, 2023 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit
Tech News Nintendo Drifts In The Right Direction On Joy-Con Issues When the Nintendo Switch first came out in 2017, we were actually kind of impressed. By relying (mostly) on screws instead of glue and being pretty modular overall, the Switch… May 2, 2023 by Manuel Haeussermann - iFixit
Consumer Rights Warranty Void Stickers Are Illegal in the US. What about Elsewhere? If you’ve ever opened up a gadget, maybe you’ve seen the stickers that say “Warranty Void if Removed.” For anyone in the US, no need to put down your screwdriver—those… April 28, 2023 by Noah Aragon - iFixit
Roundups Appliance Repair Pros Struggle to Find LG and Samsung Documentation An investigation of 50 appliance makers found that just 7 made service manuals for their products readily available. The report comes as the FTC weighs requiring OEMs to disclose repair… February 8, 2023 by Paul Roberts - iFixit
Consumer Rights Most Appliance Manufacturers Won’t Give the Public Repair Information, PIRG and iFixit Find If you’ve ever tried to fix a washing machine, dishwasher, or other appliance in your home and struggled to find a service manual, you’re not alone. We recently surveyed the… January 31, 2023 by Elizabeth Chamberlain
Right to Repair How Parts Pairing Kills Independent Repair The biggest threat to repair is no longer hostile hardware. Today, many independent repair shop owners are most worried about the trend in electronics manufacturing known as “parts pairing.” This… January 17, 2023 by Lauren Greenlee - iFixit
Roundups Parts Pairing Powers Planned Obsolescence, French Complaint Argues Every week there are too many developments in the world of repair for any mere mortal to keep track of. Fortunately, Jack Monahan and Paul Roberts, authors of the Fight to… January 14, 2023 by Jack Monahan - iFixit
Roundups Repair Is the Least of Auto Makers’ Security Worries A long-running tale of cybersecurity flaws in connected vehicles got a new chapter this week, after a security researcher revealed a serious security flaw in telematics software made by SiriusXM… December 8, 2022 by Paul Roberts - iFixit
Events The Right to Repair Movement is Everywhere Happy International Repair Day! This year’s theme is “Repair Is Everywhere,” which we know deeply at iFixit. Every day, we hear from people around the world about how they’re able… October 15, 2022 by Elizabeth Chamberlain
Roundups As Midterms Loom, Repair is off the Radar Each week, we bring you the top repair news from around the world, curated by the folks over at FightToRepair.news. Here are the happenings for the week of October 2nd.… October 14, 2022 by Paul Roberts - iFixit