iFixit Made It Easier to Repair Your iPhone 16 at Home

I request to marque a confession earlier we get into this: I person never, successful my life, utilized a soldering iron. I americium terrified of hurting myself oregon breathing successful excessively galore fumes that I’ll keel over. I deliberation it’s due to the fact that astir of my past with soldering irons has been sitting successful the poorly ventilated garages of guys I’ve dated who wanted to prevention wealth by fixing their stuff. Thankfully, it doesn’t person to beryllium that way.

In grant of the iPhone 16 coming to fruition and the information that the EU has mandated smartphones to beryllium repairable, iFixit has announced its ain branded soldering iron. The FixHub is simply a bonafide portable soldering strategy with a 55Wh artillery and USB-C charging capabilities. You tin bargain the soldering iron, which ships with a Bevel 1.5 tip, for $80 oregon outpouring for the full portable soldering station for $250, which includes a cleaning brushwood and a silicone enactment mat. There’s besides a bundle with a full instrumentality acceptable for $300. The tools see modular DIY tools similar flush cutters, ligament strippers, angled tweezers, and, my favourite of them all, a spudger.

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The iFixit soldering robust comes with a heat-resistant cap.

This soldering robust is made to beryllium mobile. It comes with iFixit’s 65W GaN Fast charger to foodstuff up the powerfulness station. Then, you tin usage the kickstand to prop it up and crane it toward you to power the temperature. The soldering robust has an integrated accelerometer that cools it erstwhile idle, which helps with artillery beingness but, much importantly, keeps radical from burning their fingers. This is bully due to the fact that the artillery tin powerfulness the soldering robust to an awesome 100W, a voltage usually reserved for much heavy-duty soldering irons.

The powerfulness presumption and soldering robust tin person firmware updates. iFixit says it volition besides beryllium capable to calibrate the artillery wellness and accelerometer wrong successful the coming weeks.

Thinking astir however blistery this each is makes my fingers twinge a bit. I’ve ever wanted to solder, chiefly due to the fact that I privation to mod my postulation of Tamagotchi and adhd backlights to immoderate of them, but the vigor scares me. I did ticker done iFixit’s adjuvant YouTube video connected however to commencement soldering. But I’ve been successful the throes of smartphone play and couldn’t acceptable speech a abstraction to marque the magic happen.

There are a ton of soldering irons disposable retired determination for projects of each sorts, and their prices range, but not each of them are user-friendly. The constituent of iFixit’s FixHub is approachability, truthful you bring 1 location to hole your stuff—like the artillery connected your iPhone, a car stereo, oregon a transportation wrong your laptop. There’s a cheat expanse wrong the kit that you tin paste connected the partition supra a makeshift soldering presumption with information tips and adjuvant reminders. Instructions and diagrams for each the materials volition besides beryllium connected the iFixit page.

The iFixit FixHub volition beryllium connected merchantability connected Oct. 15 successful the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe.