Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair

Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by mmazing on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:44AM (#32899892)

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/09/18133349/iPhon...

Uh, look at that wonky Qualcomm SDR735 chip.

Actually looking at it a bit closer it seems like the board was destroyed during disassembly?

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Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by zeroflow on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:02PM (#32900130)

Yeah. If you look at the complete board shots, those chips are inside the sandwich of PCBs. So yeah, it was probably disassembled in an reflow oven without much care for the components.

1. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Pro+Max+Chip+ID/15322...

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Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by radicaldreamer on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:13PM (#32900287)

Taking all the shielding off those chips is probably what destroyed the board. Without doing that though, these images would just have all the chips covered by shielding metals/alloys.

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Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by fodmap on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:07PM (#32900212)

Not only that, in the previous picture you can see some smd components have been blown away as well.

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/09/18133340/iPhon...

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Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair by spookthesunset on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:48PM (#32900770)

I noticed that too. They might have been poking and prodding around with the different chips or something to see what is inside. That or it is the result of aggressively removing all the shielding. Sure threw me for a loop though.

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