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Repair in the Wild: A Summer With Europe’s Repair Communities

Claire Miesch — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:28:55 +0000

From a spring kickoff in Italy to a summer full of hacker camps and Maker Faires, iFixit tools and the Street Team showed up at events across Europe this year. Different places, same idea: repair knowledge grows when people share it. Come along for the ride and meet some of the Street Team members who make it happen. Our first stop was Hackaday Europe in Lecco, where hardware hackers…

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One Year Into EU Ecodesign Rules, 80% of Smartphones Still Lack Required Repair Information

Thomas Opsomer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:41:36 +0000

This article originally appeared on repair.eu, the site of the Right to Repair Europe coalition, on September 7, 2026. Since June 20th, 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the EU are subject to repairability requirements1. These also include a mandatory repairability score and an obligation to publish repair information. The repairability score is self-reported by…

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Will the iPhone Duo Be Repairable? We’re Skeptical

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:53:51 +0000

Today, like so much of the tech world, as Apple announced their Fall 2026 product lineup, the iFixit team readied our bingo cards and placed bets on whether John Ternus would say “one more thing” (Matt won). Usually we’re a pretty optimistic bunch. But looking at the iPhone Duo today we agreed: This one probably won’t be fixable. We’ve been tearing down foldable smartphones for…

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The Evolution of Foldables, Told in X-Rays

Shahram Mokhtari — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:38:16 +0000

Foldable smartphones have come a long way. The complex devices on the market today incorporate folding OLED panels, flexible glass, and increasingly sophisticated hinge mechanisms to deliver tablet size screens in a phone shaped form factor. But the origin story of the foldable phone is far less glitzy. It all started as nothing more than a plastic flip cover held in place by two plastic nubs…

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FixHub Soldering Tips: How to Clean, How to Use, and Tip Tips in General

Charlie Sorrel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:30:25 +0000

Good news! We just released seven new soldering tips for our FixHub Smart Soldering Iron. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath, pop on over to our store. New today: Bevel Cup 1.5, Bevel Cup 2.6, Angle Knife, Angle Cone, Bent Cone, Wedge 4.0, and Heat Insert Tip. Shop Now But if you just read that paragraph thinking, “You can get different tips for your soldering iron!?”…

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Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown: Samsung’s Best Foldable Still Has a Hinge Problem

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:47:24 +0000

The Galaxy Z Fold8 is the nicest foldable Samsung has made. It’s thinner, lighter, and, crucially, shaped less like a weird folding tech demo and more like a normal expensive thing people might actually buy. Five million preorders suggest Samsung isn’t alone in thinking the category has finally grown up (or maybe just that the preorder deals were too good to pass up).

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Tool Abuse: All the Non-Screwing Things You Can Do with a Screwdriver

Charlie Sorrel — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Along with the hammer, the screwdriver might be the most abused tool in your toolbox. Heck, a big one can even be used as a hammer in a push. Instead of tut-tutting and telling you to look after your tools (which you totally should btw), today we’re going to look at all the non-screwing things that you can do with a screwdriver. We’re going to get pretty creative here, but—content warning—things…

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Why Once-Great Brands Are Making Their Products Worse on Purpose

Charlie Sorrel — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:02:00 +0000

This will sound familiar: You have a beloved tool/pair of walking boots/kitchen appliance/etc .that you’ve owned since forever. It’s well-made, built to last, but then it breaks or eventually wears out. You replace it with the same model from the same brand, but something’s off. It looks the same, but this time it breaks down after only a year. No, it’s not you. These products have all been…

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Apple Could Give “Obsolete” iPads New Life with This One Weird Trick

Charlie Sorrel — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:42:32 +0000

This fall, Apple will cut off millions of iPads from further OS updates. This will leave owners of perfectly-good hardware with no choice but to watch it slowly wither its way to the recycling center. Ideally Apple would support its computers with service updates for much longer, but there’s another way. Apple could fix this without much ongoing effort on its part, and give this still-great…

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Five Million Reasons to Make Peripheral Repair Easier: One Year of Work With Logitech

Brittany McCrigler — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:59:00 +0000

A year ago, we wrote that repairability is just the beginning. This year, our work with Logitech put some numbers behind that idea. Logitech repair content on iFixit was viewed more than 5 million times. Spare-parts sales grew ninefold year over year. The three most popular guides now draw around 3,000 views apiece every month. People are looking for ways to keep their gear working.

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