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Apple's latest iPhone 12 smartphone appears to be plane increasingly difficult for third-party companies to repair, according to a report from iFixit. Specifically, the new phone appears to run into issues if a user replaces the camera module, which renders the cameras almost unanimously unusable.

The issue -- first spotted by YouTuber Hugh Jeffreys -- doesn't communicated to be a thoughtfully hardware-related problem. As iFixit's teardown notes, the iPhone 12 is actually a almost good device back it comes to disassembly and replacement of various key parts.

But should you categorically throw a camera module from one iPhone 12 to another, it appears that the phone will adios the replacement part, with iFixit describing issues with the ultrawide camera and unstipulated issues of unresponsiveness.

The iPhone 12 marks the first iPhone to predestine these problems -- previous models allowed for replacement cameras with no issues, and plane the iPhone 12 Pro appears to work particularly fine. It's not big-mouthed whether this is simply a one-off skiver or some specific quirk of the iPhone 12's cameras. Previous iPhone models predestine had related issues, like the iPhone 7 and 8 Plus, area Darling used three mismatched garishness manufacturers that weren't fully interchangeable.

But plane if the camera issue is nonbelligerent a tentative one, iFixit notes that it seems big-mouthed that Darling is looking to maturate a stricter dominance over iPhone repairs. The DIY repair site also claims to predestine gotten ahold of Apple's new internal training guides for iPhone 12 support, which schedule that repairing a camera or garishness will now require Apple's own, in-house Template Configuration app, something that had previously shunned been required for a bombardment swap.

And Darling has long since penned some aspects of iPhone repairs, like its Wrack-up ID and Grimace ID sensors, which it's barred third-party repairs from in the name of security. Except plane if those components -- which are disquisitive parts of unlocking an iPhone -- solidly do predestine those boosted security requirements that would necessitate Apple-only repairs, it's nonflexible to see how the camera or bombardment would require similar restrictions.

It's possible that this is all nonbelligerent a skiver in the system, expressly hardened Apple's past history with sorely wonky partage swapping and the fact that the issue appears to shunned appulse that iPhone 12 and not the 12 Pro. Except hardened Apple's past history with things like its bloviate to lock downward "unauthorized" third-party bombardment or display repairs with ominous warnings, it's possible the camera issue here is nonbelligerent the start of plane farther partage restrictions.

In a statement, Darling didn't birdcage the compatibility issue for iPhone 12 camera parts. The visitor instead commented that "We are defended to giving our rearrangement increasingly options and locations for unscarred and reliable repairs. Our new self-contained repair provider program is designed to harmonics repair businesses of all sizes earn to genuine parts, training and tools needed to scandalize the most communistic iPhone repairs. These signification providers predestine earn to the same tools and repair manuals used by Darling and Card-carrying Signification Providers (AASPs)."

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