iPhone 17 Pro Teardown: The Good, The Bad & The Fascinating

Love or hate that plateau, that new camera bump is only scratching the surface of the changes we found in our teardown. This phone has one of the more fascinating batteries we’ve seen. And no I’m not talking about the hot-wired iPhone 16 action—still there, still fun—but that’s not how we’ll replace this one. No, this is bound to be much more interesting. Pre-order your iFixit x JerryRigEverything toolkit here: https://www.ifixit.com/products/ifixi... Grab a FixHub Soldering Station here! https://www.ifixit.com/products/fixhu... Check out Evident Scientific’s amazing DSX2000 microscope here: https://evidentscientific.com/en/prod... A big thanks to Lumafield for their amazing CT scans: https://www.lumafield.com/ Chapters 00:00 The iPhone 17 Pro Teardown 00:39 Opening the iPhone 17 Pro 00:46 Removing the Back Glass on the iPhone 17 Pro 01:29 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s Display 01:46 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s Battery 03:01 Meet Our Latest Tool Kit: The Jerry Rig Everything iFixit Toolkit 03:25 A Close look at the iPhone 17 Pro’s Vapor Chamber 04:58 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s Taptic Engine 05:23 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s USB-C Port 05:42 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s Cameras 05:53 Removing the iPhone 17 Pro’s Logic Board 06:44 Scratchgate: The iPhone 17 Pro and Anodized Aluminium 10:12 iPhone 17 Pro Repairability Score Some of the videos we used in this video! Warped lab: How I Anodize Aluminum Parts at Home    • How I Anodize Aluminum Parts at Home   Protolabs: Anodizing - What is it and How Does it Work? Complete Aluminium Anodizing Process Explained    • Anodizing - What is it and How Does it Wor...   Know Art: How One Drop of Water Cools Your Phone    • How One Drop of Water Cools Your Phone   JerryRigEverything: iPhone 17 Pro Scratch Gate is Real -- But its not your fault.    • iPhone 17 Pro Scratch Gate is Real -- But ...   This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your iPhone 17 Pro use the service manual at iFixit.com. Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Follow us on Twitter:   / ifixit   Check us out on Facebook:   / ifixit   Sign up for our Newsletter https://www.ifixit.com/Newsletter