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FixHub Soldering Tips: How to Clean, How to Use, and Tip Tips in General

Good news! We just released seven new soldering tips for our FixHub Smart Soldering Iron. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath, pop on over to our store. But if…

Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown: Samsung’s Best Foldable Still Has a Hinge Problem

The Galaxy Z Fold8 is the nicest foldable Samsung has made. It’s thinner, lighter, and, crucially, shaped less like a weird folding tech demo and more like a normal expensive…

Tool Abuse: All the Non-Screwing Things You Can Do with a Screwdriver

Along with the hammer, the screwdriver might be the most abused tool in your toolbox. Heck, a big one can even be used as a hammer in a push. Instead…

Why Once-Great Brands Are Making Their Products Worse on Purpose

This will sound familiar: You have a beloved tool/pair of walking boots/kitchen appliance/etc .that you’ve owned since forever. It’s well-made, built to last, but then it breaks or eventually wears…

Apple Could Give “Obsolete” iPads New Life with This One Weird Trick

This fall, Apple will cut off millions of iPads from further OS updates. This will leave owners of perfectly-good hardware with no choice but to watch it slowly wither its…

Five Million Reasons to Make Peripheral Repair Easier: One Year of Work With Logitech

A year ago, we wrote that repairability is just the beginning. This year, our work with Logitech put some numbers behind that idea. Logitech repair content on iFixit was viewed…

The Secrets Behind Samsung’s Privacy Screen

We tear down the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra to uncover the hardware behind its built-in OLED privacy screen. See how this anti-snooping tech works.

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Why Repairability Is So Important During RAMageddon

Finally some good news from the endless bleakness of RAMageddon: Microsoft has extended Windows 10 support for another year, to October 12th 2027, probably because it’s hard to force people…

Kindle and Switch Replaceable Batteries Show EU Laws Are (Slowly) Working

Nintendo and Amazon are putting user-replaceable batteries in the Switch 2 and (possibly) the Kindle. This will not be down to altruism or respect for the buyer, but instead, thanks…

John Deere Settles with the FTC in Massive Win for Farmers

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and five states settled their antitrust case against John Deere. The deal does something farmers have been demanding for more than a decade, forcing Deere…