Teardown Steps Presentation on iPhone 12 and Repair Tips－Phone parts

The iPhone 12 has been launched on the global market this October. This new iPhone model has become the hottest sale smartphone model this year. Since we can see the differences of this new model on the appearance, we are still curious about the inside parts and structure of iPhone 12. This is the teardown steps we would like to present here. Besides, we will share with you tips about iPhone 12 teardown and repair on the following, hope you would be interested if you know iPhone repair.

1. Tear down and separate the iPhone 12 display screen

Power off the iPhone, eject and take out the SIM card firstly. Unbolt the two pentalobe screws on the bottom. Use hot air gun to blow on the display edge and corners, then use suction cup to pull the display out. Use hard plastic plectrum to slice and separate the display screen. Flip over the display, loosen the Phillips screws and remove the metal shield for fixing the display flex cables. Disconnect the flex cables so that we can totally take off the display screen.

2. Tear down the iPhone 12 inner small parts

Loosen the screws and remove the metal shield for fixing the rear-facing cameras. Disconnect and take off the rear cameras. Unbolt the screws and take off the plastic panel beside the cameras. Loosen the screws and take down the loudspeaker with flex cable, then theiPhone SIM card reader. Screw off and take down the iPhone taptic engine. Disconnect the front-facing cameras and then take off the camera module with spudger.

3. Tear down the iPhone 12 battery and logic board

Since the logic board flex is connected closely beside the battery, here we can unbolt the screws for fixing the logic board. Use spudger to pry and take off the logic board from the back housing, and leave the flex cables connected. Tear off and pull out the battery adhesive sticker beneath the battery with tweezers carefully, then we can take down theiPhone batteryfrom the back housing. Loosen the screws and remove the metal panel for fixing the logic board flex, then take off the logic board entirely.

As final tips about iPhone 12 teardown process, the iPhone logic board flex has two branches of flex cables, which are closely connected on the side of the battery. To take off the logic board, we need to take down the battery beforehand. The iPhone wireless charging coil is closely stick on the back housing, it is no need to take further teardown process on it. The iPhone 12 small parts and the components are tiny, we need to be careful on classification, don’t mess them up or miss any of them.

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