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Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro
This matches the rating it gave the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025. That doesn’t mean the iPhone repair process is simple.The Achilles heel of the iPhone 18 Pro may be a new feature: a variable aperture lens in the phone’s main 48-megapixel camera. It is the first variable aperture in an iPhone (though not the first in a smartphone).
- ▪This matches the rating it gave the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025.
- ▪That doesn’t mean the iPhone repair process is simple.The Achilles heel of the iPhone 18 Pro may be a new feature: a variable aperture lens in the phone’s main 48-megapixel camera.
- ▪It is the first variable aperture in an iPhone (though not the first in a smartphone).
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Boone AshworthGearSep 21, 2026 10:15 AMHere’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 ProIt’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.Courtesy of iFixitCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyiFixit, the company known for completely tearing apart just about every product and device it can, has fully disassembled a brand new iPhone 18 Pro. The goal is to understand how all the parts fit together and find ways to fix anything that might break.In the company’s post and teardown video, iFixit showed off how it took apart the latest iPhone, and what people who may someday need to fix theirs should look out for.It gave the iPhone 18 Pro a repair rating of 7/10, citing easy-to-remove…
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