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Great news: Apple has reversed their de facto ban on third-party repairs of Apple devices.

Posted on September 1, 2019

It’s no secret that Apple has always opposed allowing third-party repair shops to service Apple products.

As a result, third-party shops weren’t allowed to use genuine Apple parts, which meant they either had to use often inferior after-market replacement parts or buy genuine Apple OEM parts from the gray market.

As you might expect, a third-party repair would also void the device’s warranty.

And to top it all off, just last month Apple released a firmware update for iOS devices that refused to show new batteries that had been installed by third-party techs as “healthy” even when they were brand new genuine Apple batteries that had been obtained on the gray market.

After taking an incredible amount of heat over the new battery policy, Apple has now reversed course by announcing a new program under which authorized third-party repair shops can now fix Apple products using genuine Apple parts that are provided directly by Apple.

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