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You can throw your iPad model and problem into this cost estimator to see what kind of hit your wallet would take. Getting repairs done by Apple will be costlier. If you're not confident about difficult or even moderate-level DIY repairs, there are thousands of authorized Apple repair providers (you can find one near you here), as well as independent repair providers that have Apple parts, and then there's your local repair store at a mall.Ĭosts will vary by how 'official' you want your repair to be.

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You can also buy a new battery and replace it yourself with iFixit's guide - but the guide for the iPad Pro 12.9-inch model is rated as being difficult, with a repair time of two to three hours.

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IFixit then sells packages of the parts you'll need to repair certain issues, like this $237 iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2018-2020) screen repair kit that includes a new screen with adhesive strips, a reusable 'iOpener' that you heat in a microwave and apply to your device to soften the adhesive on the screen, an opening tool, a set of six opening picks, plastic cards, a battery blocker, a suction handle, tweezers, a precision bit driver with SIM eject tool and a 4mm Phillips precision screwdriver bit. If you need to replace the screen on your iPad Pro 12.9-inch 4th-gen model, for instance, iFixit says the task will be of moderate difficulty and will take one to two hours to complete. While I absolutely did not do this, you might be brave enough to try it out.Ĭheck out iFixit's iPhone DIY repair guides here, complete with highly detailed step-by-step instructions and difficulty ratings depending on which version of Apple's tablet you have.

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DIY a cracked iPad screen or battery issuesĪpple began allowing you to fix your own iPad in 2022 by partnering with iFixit on repair guides and official replacement parts. Hint: It didn't involve going to an Apple Store. So what do you do when your kid or, to be fair, you break your tablet? Here's what I did. From my direct experience of living with two tiny humans who have zero regard for the laws of gravity, and even less for the delicacy of expensive gadgets, I'm willing to bet that houses with children in them are also far more likely to break the tablets they do have. Tablet ownership is also far more common if you have children, according to the US Census Bureau, which said four out of five households with children owned tablets in 2021. It's like playing a game of 'the floor is lava,' except the hot, Californian concrete truly does mean death to all screens that meet it. But the catch is when the tablet runs out of battery and has to be brought inside to be charged. It's securely attached to a seat back, after all. You'd think that would be fairly risk free. But when my kids came along, I suddenly remembered my old first-gen iPad Air, and it came in handy as an airplane entertainment-style screen for them in the car. Mine made it all the way to just two months shy of the 10-year mark, probably because I did in fact stop using it for half a decade. There are a few ways you can handle a broken iPad, from having the tablet screen replaced at your local third-party retailer to DIY-ing it yourself - and plenty of ways to avoid it happening in the first place, if you're the forward-thinking type.Īccording to technology insurer Asurion, 80% of tablets are dropped within the first two years of purchase.

But I'm not immune to dropping it on, say, the concrete sidewalk outside my home while removing my toddler from the car and trying to hold the tablet at the same time as a thrashing child. But as time marched on and years went by, the toilet slowly claimed its victims one by one.Īn iPad is a little harder to lose in a toilet, and I haven't yet heard the dreaded splash of expensive new technology hitting the can. I once knew someone who would drop every new phone they got into the toilet.