Earlier this week, restore web site iFixit took aside the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus to display the brand new battery elimination course of that makes use of electrical energy for adhesive elimination, and in the present day, iFixit is again with a teardown of the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max.
Apple’s iPhone 16 Professional fashions don’t have the identical simplified battery elimination course of because the iPhone 16, with Apple as an alternative utilizing conventional stretch launch adhesive for its pricier iPhones. It is nonetheless simpler to get inside, although, as a result of you are able to do so by way of the again of the iPhone moderately than the show, which could be simply broken.
Apple encased the iPhone 16 Professional battery in metallic just like the iPhone 16 fashions, however the iPhone 16 Professional Max doesn’t have the metallic casing round its battery, and it is not clear why. iFixit known as the choice to make use of the metal-encased battery in simply the 16 Professional and never the 16 Professional Max “perplexing.”
The LiDAR Scanner is extra accessible, which makes it simpler to entry for repairs. In prior Professional iPhone fashions, it was underneath the primary digital camera meeting. The digital camera modules are nearly an identical, however not fairly interchangeable on account of a unique cable size and a screw positioned in two separate areas inside every mannequin.
Apple moved the mmWave antenna to make room for the Digicam Management button, and within the 16 Professional fashions, it is in a hollowed out area close to the highest of the system. iFixit says that mmWave sign may nonetheless undergo because of the titanium body of the iPhone 16 Professional fashions.
USB-C port elimination is “massively” simplified, however iFixit factors out that Apple doesn’t promote substitute USB-C ports. The logic board can be pulled out with solely the elimination of the higher speaker meeting, which is a significant enchancment to the design.
Notably, the teardown revealed that the iPhone 16 Professional fashions are utilizing a Qualcomm SDX71M modem, which is a customized model of the SDX70M modem used within the iPhone 15 Professional fashions. Rumors had urged the Professional fashions would come with the Qualcomm X75 modem, which does not seem like the case.
iFixit gave the iPhone 16 Professional fashions a repairability rating of seven out of 10 because of the design modifications and the supply of restore manuals.