iFixit Confirms Third-Party iPhone 13 Screen Repairs Will Break Face ID

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If your iPhone 13 display ever gets damaged and you need to get it repaired, you lot might demand to fork out more coin to get it fixed past Apple tree. This is because according to a written report from iFixit, they have confirmed that fixing the iPhone thirteen'southward display through 3rd-party services will essentially break Face ID.

Co-ordinate to the website, they merits that this is because of a Tic-Tac sized microcontroller establish on the bottom of the display. "The iPhone 13 is paired to its screen using this small-scale microcontroller, in a status repair techs frequently call 'serialization.' Apple tree has not provided a fashion for owners or independent shops to pair a new screen."

They note that because but official repair stores and technicians accept access to proprietary software which allows them to sync upwards the serial numbers. "Authorized technicians with admission to proprietary software, Apple Services Toolkit 2, tin make new screens work by logging the repair to Apple's deject servers and syncing the serial numbers of the phone and screen."

What this means is that while you lot could get a new display from a 3rd-party store, it will come at the expense of Face ID no longer working. Given that beginning-party repairs are a lot more expensive, this is bad news for customers who are hoping they won't have to go downward that road, but unfortunately it looks like customers volition have no pick now.

Filed in . Read more well-nigh Face up Id, iPhone, Iphone 13, Security and Social Hit. Source: ifixit