Home Portfolio Media

Video Reel

Youtube Videos

iFixit •

4 Signs It's Time To Replace Your MacBook Battery!

It doesn't matter how well you treat your laptop battery, eventually, it's gonna die. Every battery has a limited lifespan, so whether you have a MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, chances are your battery life will probably start taking a hit around 1000 charge cycles-which is about 3 years if you're charging your machine every day. There's no hard and fast rule to tell you when exactly you should make the swap-but here are 4 clear signs that it's time to replace your MacBook Battery.

If you need swap out your MacBooks battery we have lots of fix kits!
https://www.ifixit.com/Kits/Mac-Laptop-Fix-Kits/MacBook-Pro-Fix-Kits?utm_source=4signstoswapmacbookbattery&utm_medium=Annotation&utm_campaign=YouTube

Read the blog over on our site as well!
https://www.ifixit.com/News/9856/how-to-tell-if-your-mac-laptop-needs-a-new-battery

#iFixitRepair, #MacBookBattery, #BatteryReplacement
Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ifixityourself
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iFixit
iFixit •

Is Replacing the Battery in a MacBook Pro Retina Actually Difficult?

iFixit ranks replacing the battery in a Retina MacBook Pro as one of the most difficult repairs. Kay-Kay ranks herself a “novice fixer” having only repaired iPhones, her Switch, and a 2012 MacBook Pro. We thought it would be fun to have her tackle this repair—to show her (and you) that even “novice” fixers can learn to fix anything.

She’s also tackling recording from home for the second time so apologies for the static on her mic—she’s using a 10 year old MacBook Pro to record and she might have dropped it during her last repair. 🙃
iFixit •

Top 5 Right to Repair Wins of 2020

We’ve been fighting for the Right to Repair for years now, and we had a particular stride heading into 2020. Even in a year where statehouses were closed and our attention was divided, the movement to let people fix their stuff made some gains. Let’s take a look at 5 of the biggest right to repair wins in 2020.

Read about the 5 wins over on our site!
https://www.ifixit.com/News/47829/top-5-right-to-repair-wins-of-2020#

If you are in the mood to repair some stuff we have the best tools for that!
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Pro-Tech-Toolkit/IF145-307?utm_source=righttorepair2020&utm_medium=Annotation&utm_campaign=YouTube

Video Credits:
Louis Rossmann
Boston State House - Right to Repair hearing - FULL HQ VERSION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpXJzjin7k

The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-committee-requests-tech-executives-emails-in-antitrust-probe-11568377800

Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ifixityourself
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iFixit

Live Streams

iFixit •

iPhone 11 Pro Teardown Live

It’s our favorite day of the year: iPhone Teardown day! Today, we are live-streaming our first disassembly of the iPhone 11 Pro. Join Kay Kay Clapp, iFixit’s Director of Things, and Sam Goldheart, iFixit’s Lead Teardown Engineer, as they dig into Apple’s latest iPhone. What amazing things will they find? Hints of bilateral charging? A weird battery? Secret reverse-engineered alien technology? There’s only one way for you to find out and that’s to watch the stream.

Check out the written version of the iPhone 11 teardown here:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+11+Teardown/126192

And see the full teardown of the iPhone 11 Pro Max here:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+11+Pro+Max+Teardown/126000

Get your own Marlin Screwdriver Set made especially for iPhones.
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Marlin-Screwdriver-Set--5-Precision-Screwdrivers-for-iPhone/IF145-452?o=1?utm_source=iPhone11ProLive&utm_medium=Description&utm_campaign=YouTube#s239804

#iPhone11ProTeardown #iPhone11Pro #iFixitTeardown
Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ifixityourself
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iFixit
iFixit •

iPhone 12 Pro Max Teardown - LIVE!

Join Kay-Kay and Kyle in our video studio right now for their rock, paper, scissors competition—winner gets to open up the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Then stick around for their initial thoughts and impressions about the insides of the phone!

Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ifixityourself
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iFixit
iFixit •

iPhone XS Max Teardown LIVE with BEER!

Don’t worry the teardown didn’t take us 5 hours, but keep watching when we finish to see an iPhone XS sit in some beer for almost 5 hours!

The Teardown starts at
:46 https://youtu.be/8mhcDOJrBSk?t=46s

This morning we did a teardown of the iPhone XS Max live for everyone to watch!

Apple said they put the iPhone XS's upgraded IP68 waterproof rating to the test with beer. So naturally, we decided to challenge their claim—by immersing the iPhone XS in 2 meters of beer.

Check out the full teardown on iFixit.com
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+XS+and+XS+Max+Teardown/113021?utm_source=XSMaxTeardown&utm_medium=Description&utm_campaign=YouTube

Today in our teardown we used the Essential Electronics Toolkit
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Essential-Electronics-Toolkit/IF145-348-2?utm_source=XSMaxTeardown&utm_medium=Description&utm_campaign=YouTube

And our Adhesive Remover
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/iFixit-Adhesive-Remover-for-Battery-Screen-and-Glass-Adhesive/IF145-400-4?utm_source=XSMaxTeardown&utm_medium=Description&utm_campaign=YouTube

"Fanfare for Space" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Almost New" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Local Forecast - Elevator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Leopard Print Elevator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Special thanks to Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company for providing the beer for our iPhone XS test!
figmtnbrew.com
Instagram: @figmtnbrew
Twitter: @figmtnbrew

Add your favorite song to the Teardown Team's Spotify playlist! https://open.spotify.com/user/kweber0706/playlist/6B7ePWHbyYqWnM9wS5BjTt
Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!
https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ifixityourself
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifixit
Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iFixit

The ones that made me smile the most

iFixit •

Can the iFixit Team Repair Their Own Drifting Joy-Cons?

If you’re a Nintendo Switch owner, there’s a good chance you might have a faulty Joy-Con. The problem everyone is having is called Joy-Con drift—and it’s the reason why Link won’t stop running off the screen even when you aren’t touching anything.

So what’s the deal? Essentially, it’s a factory defect affecting all Switch controllers...and it makes your joystick think it’s receiving an input that isn’t actually there. This problem has become so big that 4/5 Switch owners on our iFixit team had it. Luckily, we all work at iFixit, so we have the replacement part and access to the repair guide, but can we fix it???

If you have a Joy-Con that suffers from drift, fix it yourself! It’s really easy (for most people)