Apple has made the repair of its new iPhone 13 very complicated by locking the screen and the facial recognition sensor Face ID.An additional layer of complexity to manage for independent repairers.But a software update should correct the problem.

The iPhone 13 is a very complicated smartphone to repair.Apple's latest phone is equipped with a small chip that softly locks the Reconnaissance Module ID and the phone screen between them.This measure was taken for security reasons, in order to prevent ill -intentioned hackers from deceiving facial recognition of the iPhone with tampered parts.

Face ID can work after screen repair

Unfortunately, this makes repair of the screen (one of the most frequent refurbishment operations) extremely complicated for independent repairers.The latter do not actually have access to Apple tools which allow you to couple a new screen with the Face ID module.A situation that had alerted Ifixit which denounced a "locking" never seen and was worried that it could bring to the independent repair circuits.

The expected update will allow ID to go to FonterCoinner even after a repair outside Apple Store

This situation will not have lasted very long, since as The Verge explains in an article dated November 9, Apple will soon deploy an update that will facilitate the situation.The independent repairers will no longer have to dry up and then re -bring the chip on a new screen, since the expected update will no longer block the function of Face ID when the screen has been changed.

A situation not all pink

Apple did not specify exactly when this update will arrive, but this announcement still represents good news for the repair sector.The situation is not quite ideal, however.

As ifixit explained when it dismantled the iPhone 13 Pro, the fact that Apple could correct this software problem, but did not do it before the official release of iOS 15, clearly shows that the problems of repairability do notare still not taken sufficiently during the hardware and software development of our phones.According to Ifixit, if this "bug" was really one, it should have been identified and corrected earlier, without the site needing to make it a media phenomenon.

"Technically yes: Face ID failure could be due to a very specific hardware bug of one of the most frequently replaced components, a bug that has managed to pass the tests and which was not corrected by amajor software day, ”said Ifixit recently.According to the site, this is more a discreet attack on the right to repair.We can be happy that Apple became aware of the problem and deploys a corrective update, just as we can regret that it took a media ramdam to attract attention to this subject.

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