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Watch the iPhone 16’s electrically-charged battery replacement process

A picture of a partially deconstructed iPhone 16, with one side removed and the battery being lifted from it.
image: iFixit

No sooner has the Phone 16 lineup arrived than the folks at iFixit start taking them apart, a process made easier this time around by the day-one release of repair manuals from Apple. The disassembly process shows the Camera control is a real button that moves, along with a flex cable that likely measures force, and the heat sink that appears positioned to keep the A18 chip’s Neural Engine cool while it handles AI workloads.

For this year’s refresh, the base iPhone 16 may be more interesting than the Pro model for one reason — it’s the first one using electrically debondable adhesive for its battery enclosure.

As reported in June by The Information, Apple isn’t using the new adhesive on all of its phones yet, but now we have a lot more…

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