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We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

  • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    However, it should be a one-time notice that a user can dismiss and continue using the phone’s complete functionality.

    Hmm, I broadly agree with the idea that users should be able to dismiss these warnings and repair their devices however they want, but I’d imagine a dodgy repair shop would just press ‘OK’ on the counterfeit part warning before handing it back to the client.

    Not sure what the solution is - maybe a screen in the settings that can list all parts warnings so an owner can view it after a repair? That relies on people actually checking, but at some point users need to show some responsibility for verifying a repair was done correctly if they’d care.

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Not sure what the solution is

      Email the warning to the user’s Apple account? Put the warning behind the faceid lock?

      Why does the notification have to be on the device and/or accessible by the repair shop?

    • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I was just using an example, but I was thinking something closer to a device “security status” section in the settings app.

    • kaba0@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Apple actually already sort of have it — you can go to settings and check whether any repairs/tampering happened on your device. That is I believe a correct approach - you can always check after a repair/second hand buy whether their claims are true, yet it is maximally usable.

    • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do what Google does when trying to grant far reaching permissions to another account. Show a non-dismissible banner or nag notification constantly for 10 days, and then allow the user to dismiss permanently. It’s the best of both worlds. It makes it impossible for the user to miss, even if a shady repair shop tries to cheat them with aftermarket parts, but it gives the user a reasonable course to permanently dismiss any warnings.