Replacing the iPad Pro OLED battery is easier than ever

Apple’s latest iPad Pro is remarkably rigid for its thinness, and apparently also a step forward in repairability. iFixit shows when tearing down the tablet that the iPad Pro’s 38.99 Wh battery, which will inevitably wear out and need to be replaced, is actually easy to access. It’s a change iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari says in the video “could save hours in repair time” compared to previous iPad Pro models.

To access it, you still have to remove the screen, which is glued and connected to the iPad in four places, but iFixit was able to remove it almost immediately after removing the screen (after removing the camera assembly and processing a aluminum lip underneath). this, which made some tabs difficult to access). For previous models, he notes, “all major components” had to be removed.

After that, however, thinness proves to be a problem for iFixit, as many parts are stuck together, including the tablet’s motherboard.

But you can’t say the same about Apple’s new $129 Apple Pencil Pro, which shouldn’t shock anyone. Mokhtari was forced to cut the pencil using an ultrasonic cutter, a moment he billed as “the worst ASMR video in the world.” (This happens just after five minutes, in case you want to cut the video right there to avoid the screech of the tool.) Unlike the iPad Pro itself, the Pencil Pro’s battery was the last thing ‘he could get. has.

By the time Mokhtari is finished, the pencil is of course completely destroyed. He says the site will soon have a full chip ID that will include images of the MEMS sensor that drives the pencil’s roll function that lets you twist the pencil to adjust the rotation of the art tools on the screen.