You Can Now Fix Your iPhone 17 Yourself

• Apple now sells genuine parts and manuals for the iPhone 17, Air, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max.

• Self-repair available in US, Canada and much of Europe; full tool kit rents for 7 days ($49 US).

• Apple sped up parts rollout, about two weeks sooner than iPhone 16, and broadened device support.

The iPhone 17 has been out for a little over a month now, and for some people, that's enough time to break their phones. If you already broke yours, the good part is that Apple is finally selling parts for these new phones. And in a pretty quick span, all things considered.

Apple quietly expanded its self-service repair program to include its latest generation of smartphones, making genuine parts and manuals for the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max available to order.

For all four new iPhone models, the self-service store now stocks a comprehensive list of parts to address the most common hardware failures. Consumers can order components for repairing or replacing the display, battery, cameras, main enclosure, speakers, and even the core logic board. To support these repairs, Apple has also made detailed repair manuals available for download from its website for each specific model: the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. And as a reminder, if you don't own tools to take the phone apart, a complete iPhone toolkit can be rented for a seven-day period, with US pricing listed at $49.

This is slightly faster than what Apple took to release parts for the iPhone 16 series last year—that was in mid-November, while we're seeing the latest iPhones launch their respective parts in late October. A 2-week improvement is still an improvement, all things considered.

The program is available to customers in the United States, Canada, and a wide swath of Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and Switzerland, among other nations. If you live in any of these countries, you'll be able to fix your phone yourself, provided you have the technical know-how.

I've complained a lot about Apple's self-repair program and how the company has not taken that much good care of it. But to Apple's credit, it has improved a lot. It's adding its new devices a lot quicker and it's supporting a wider slate of devices than ever. We need to give credit where credit is due, and the company has improved a lot.

If you broke your phone, check out the company's repair shop now.

Source: MacRumors