How Apple Made It Cheaper to Repair the Rear Panel on Your iPhone 15 Pro

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max — Apple’s high-end iPhone fashions that had been launched final week as a part of the iPhone 15 lineup — will assist cheaper and simpler rear glass replacements, in keeping with the corporate’s assist web site. Due to a change in how the corporate constructed the 2 new smartphones, the price of repairing the rear panel has dropped by a substantial quantity, and is now on par with the usual fashions within the iPhone 15 and iPhone 14 sequence of smartphones.

Based on Apple’s personal assist web site, the price of changing the rear glass panel on the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max will price $169 (roughly Rs. 14,100) and $199 (roughly Rs. 16,600), respectively. That is less expensive than the price of repairing the rear panel on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max — $ 499 (roughly Rs. 41,600) and $549 (roughly Rs. 45,750), respectively.

By altering the way in which it manufactures the physique of the brand new iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max, Apple has made it simpler to exchange the rear panel of the handset (via 9to5Mac). The glass panel on the again of the handsets shall be simpler to take away than their predecessors. Prospects who’ve AppleCare+ protection will have the ability to restore their rear glass panel for $29 (roughly Rs. 2,400). 

Readers would possibly recall that the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus that had been introduced on the firm’s ‘Far Out’ occasion in September 2022 had been also equipped with an simply detachable glass panel. It seems that the adjustments to the chassis additionally made their method to the Professional fashions this yr. Apple has geared up the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max with a titanium chassis as an alternative of the chrome steel materials used on its predecessors.

Again in 2022, Apple allowed authorised technicians to restore the TrueDepth digicam on its handsets all the way in which again to the iPhone X, with out changing your entire smartphone. The mechanism utilized by Apple’s Face ID biometric authentication system a flood illuminator, dot projector, entrance digicam, and an infrared (IR) digicam — repairing the array of sensors was beforehand unimaginable with out changing your entire gadget.