Has Apple wanted to force users of the iPhone 13 to have their iPhone repaired among approved partners?At the beginning of November, while these new models arrived on the market, we discovered that Apple software blocked the Face ID functionality when replaced the screen, for example if it is broken, at a repairer who does notis not approved by the firm.

As explained by the Ifixit site, the only way to redo Face ID after a replacement was to remove the microcontroller from the broken screen to put it on the replacement screen.However, this required sophisticated material and a certain know-how.For their part, the approved repairers had software to blow up this blockage.

"An approved Apple technician can ensure that a iPhone 13 accepts a new screen in a few clicks in his secret software, without heating, desudering or resource." Could read in the publication of the repair specialist.

"In other words, for those who can access the Apple network, replacing a screen on the iPhone 13 is not different from before.For independent shops, everything is different, ”also explained this.

While the controversy begins, Apple has finally rear back machine, indicating that a future update will remove this functionality which blocks Face ID after the replacement of a screen.And today the problem has been solved by the iOS 15 update.2 of the operating system.

"We tested it, and it's true: iOS 15.2 prevents Face ID's dysfunction after replacing the screen of an iPhone 13, apart from their official repair channels, "confirms Ifixit, who had alerted to this problem in November.

"We can't really say if iOS 15.2 "solves" this problem, or the "correct" or the "cancel", because Apple will not say if its jeopardizing the phones repair industry was a bug, a design decision or an experience ", also comments the specialist.The Cupertino firm not having communicated much on the subject, we do not know what his intentions were.

In recent years, Apple has made many efforts to facilitate the repairs of the iPhone

It is amazing that Apple has thought of locking the market repair market of the iPhone when in recent years, the firm had made great efforts to facilitate them.In 2019, Apple launched the “Independent Repair Program” program for independent repairers.

In essence, this allows these repairers who are not approved to have access to original training, documentation and spare parts to correctly carry out repairs.And this year, Apple goes even further.

Recently, the firm has indeed announced a program that will allow its most courageous customers to have access to these resources to repair their devices themselves.