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If you're always breaking your iPhone, a new Apple update will make it much cheaper and easier to fix your device.
From autumn, 'select iPhone models' will be able to receive used components – such as a screen or a camera – from another iPhone, as long as they're 'genuine' Apple parts.
Currently, when someone puts a used component in their iPhone, the device rejects it by limiting functionality and sending notifications about an 'unknown part'.
It marks a positive step forward for the 'right to repair' movement, which puts pressure on tech giants to make their phones easier to fix.
However, one expert said the multi-trillion-dollar company is only making the change due to pressure from lawmakers.
Apple is making it easier for iPhone owners when it comes to making simple repairs by letting owners fit used components
In a blog post Apple said the update is coming to 'select iPhone models', although TechCrunch reports that this refers to the iPhone 15 and the upcoming iPhone 16, Pictured, the iPhone 15 released last year
In a blog post, Apple said the update is coming to 'select iPhone models', although TechCrunch reports that this refers to the iPhone 15 and the upcoming iPhone 16.
'Used genuine Apple parts will now benefit from the full functionality and security afforded by the original factory calibration, just like new genuine Apple parts,' Apple says.
Currently, Apple requires customers to endure a controversial process called 'parts pairing' when they want to put new parts in their iPhone.
When you buy an iPhone, the phone's software is coded to recognise the serial numbers for the different components, such as the screen and the battery.
As a result, if the iPhone is fitted with components with serial numbers that the software doesn't recognise, several iPhone features won't function properly.
What's more, users will get notifications telling them that the phone is unable to determine if the newly-fitted battery or screen 'is a genuine Apple part'.
According to a test by iFixit, with current 'parts pairing' restrictions, if a broken iPhone 15 screen is replaced with an identical screen, key features such as the front-facing camera, face ID and auto-brightness stop working.
Currently, Apple requires customers to endure a controversial process called 'parts pairing' when they want to put new parts in their iPhone
That's because the phone recognises each part 'paired' to it and restricts the ability to replace parts without a proprietary process to
