Repairability Why We’re Nerfing the Nintendo Switch’s Repairability Score When we first tore down the Nintendo Switch in 2017, it earned a solid 8 out of 10 on our repairability scale. That was then. Today, as Nintendo gears up… June 3, 2025 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit
Repairability Tariff Exemptions Are Terrible News for Electronics Repairability The US trade war is likely to have an unintended casualty: Repairability. Even if you haven’t been closely watching the US tariff rollercoaster, you’ve probably heard about expected price hikes.… May 22, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Repairability You Can’t Even Replace The Battery in the “Green” Suri Toothbrush When the “sustainable” electric toothbrush company Suri first started getting buzz, we were hopeful. The electric toothbrush space has been full of disposable, unrepairable junk for a long time, and… May 7, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Right to Repair Fix It, Then Pass It On: iFixit Joins Forces with Back Market Let’s say your phone starts slowing down. Battery life’s tanking. The screen’s got a few, uh, character lines. You could toss it in a drawer, start browsing for a shiny… April 16, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Framework Let Us in for an Early Teardown of the Refreshingly Open Framework Desktop We got to see the new Framework Desktop at the Framework 2nd Gen event in San Francisco. They invited us back to HQ to get our hands on it, and… February 26, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repairability Why a Refurbished iPhone Might be Better (and Cheaper) Than a Brand New iPhone 16e Apple’s iPhone 16e is a weird one. It’s Apple’s “budget” model, but it’s 40% more expensive than the iPhone SE it replaces. It’s an iPhone 16 in name, but many… February 20, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Women in Repair How Repairability Gives Computers a New Life In Senegalese Schools Every year, Clara Gregori gathers up old, discarded laptops from friends, family, and local businesses, stuffs them into a suitcase, and flies from her home in Catalonia Spain to a… February 3, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
E-Waste What Happens To Your Gifts After You Return Them? One of the best parts of online shopping is the returns. No more justifying yourself to a prickly in-store clerk who insists on asking questions despite the store’s no-questions-asked returns… January 28, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Repairability How to Give Repairable Gifts Originally published November 22, 2023, updated for November 2024. As the end-of-year holidays approach, it’s a good time to reflect on the things that really matter: Enjoying lots of quality… December 1, 2024 by Matt Zieminski - iFixit
Product Design Why Hardware Makers Are Turning to Off-The-Shelf Parts Some tech companies take “custom hardware” to an absurd extreme, designing and building every part of their products. Others use more readily-available parts, and embedded systems to build their proprietary… November 1, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
