You’ve cracked the screen or your iPhone is on the fritz for something potentially more serious. But you don’t live near an Apple Store or Best Buy to get it fixed or replaced. Apple may be perfectly ...

"GMA" sees how five different repair options stack up. — -- As millions of Americans damaged their smartphones, the cellphone repair industry reported $4 billion in revenue last year. There are ...

If you walked into a gadget repair shop to get your iPhone's FaceID cameras fixed, you probably had to get your entire phone replaced. But fix-it shops may get access to Apple parts and hand back your ...

There's a thriving market for unofficial, aftermarket iPhone parts, and in China, there are entire massive factories that are dedicated to producing these components for repair shops unable to get ...

Shoppers inspect new iPhones at the Apple Store on Shanghai’s Nanjing Road, Sept. 25, 2015. Duncan Hewitt/International Business Times If you break your iPhone screen in the future, you might not have ...

Update: Apple is planning to greatly expand availability of its proprietary iPhone repair machine to hundreds of third-party service providers. Apple announced recently that it will launch a pilot ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Apple will ...

Some independent tech repair shops are disappointed with Apple's fairly new plan to provide them with Apple equipment and repair guides to fix customers' iPhones. The tech giant said in an August ...

If a third-party repair shop replaces your home button and you’re running iOS 9, Apple automatically bricks your phone. Once your iPhone is bricked, there’s no way to unbrick it.