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iPhone 7 Audio IC Disease Repair

Swollen MacBook Battery? Get It Looked At!

Does your MacBook (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook Retina) have a case that bulges where it shouldn’t? Or have you spilled liquid on it recently? Believe us when we say there are good reasons you don’t want to ignore either of these. This…

Your iPhone Battery and Apple’s “Slowdown”

Introduction You may well have heard the news story about Apple “slowing down” older iPhones via iOS updates. This attracted some criticism and scepticism, not least because they hadn’t been clear about the fact they’d done this, nor offered users the choice. (Several legal actions…

The Hidden Problems with “Instant” iPhone Unlocking

Introduction Although we don’t offer mobile phone unlocking services of any sort ourselves, a lot of our rivals do. Before we go on, we should be fair and point out that many of them are generally reputable, and we don’t intend to tar them all…

The iOS 11 Touch Screen Problem Mystery

Introduction Apple officially launched iOS 11 on Tuesday the 19th of September, and it is already causing issues for users. We’ve personally had experience with a number of customers coming in and reporting problems with the touch sensing on their iPhones after upgrading. Often the…

Apple’s New iPhone 8 and iPhone X- What Are the Repair Issues?

Overview So- they’re here. Yesterday, at their September 2017 keynote- held at the new Steve Jobs Theater- Apple announced several new releases, including the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, the flagship iPhone X, plus a new Apple Watch, 4K Apple TV and iOS 11. Those…

iPhone 6 Diode Short Circuit Repair

Duty of Care- You Get What You Pay For

Earlier this year, a story came to our attention where someone had taken their iPhone 6S to have its cracked screen repaired in another local store. To cut a long story short, it didn’t go so well.   We won’t name the guilty party, but…

The MacBook GPU Fault That Wasn’t

How Our Rivals Handled It   Today we’ll be looking at a MacBook a customer brought to us after being less than impressed with one of our alleged rivals. She had used us for a previous repair and been happy with the service, but for…

Apple Out-of-Warranty Swaps and Refurbs