Apple to sell parts and tools for DIY iPhone repairs

Cracked your iPhone screen but cannot find a repair shop or book a slot at the Apple store? Then try your kitchen table.

From next year phone owners can fix their handset at home after the tech company said it would make repair kits available to the public.

Starting in the US in early 2022 and then the UK and other countries, a new online repair store will offer more than 200 individual parts and tools for repairing the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 handsets. The service will start by offering parts for the screen, battery and camera, the bits of an iPhone most commonly brought in for fixes.

First, customers should consult an official repair manual before ordering the necessary parts, Apple said. Customers who returned the broken parts for recycling would receive a credit towards their next purchase.

Apple said the service would also be made available for Mac computers that used M1 chips, which went on sale last year. The company said additional parts and repairs for the iPhone 12 and 13 would be issued later next year.