“Your product serial number or IMEI is required for genuine Apple part purchases,” the iPhone maker spells it out in a support document. Enabling only serial number-authorized repairs “sets Apple up as the gateway to approve-or deny-any repairs in the future, with parts from any source.”Īpple’s Self Service Repair program has a serial number checkĪpple doesn’t hide the fact that genuine parts are paired with specific device serial numbers.You cannot purchase genuine parts without a serial number or IMEI. Requiring a device’s serial number when buying genuine parts from Apple means those parts are paired with the same device.Every iPhone part purchased from Apple’s newly-launched Self Service Repair Store is tied to your device’s IMEI, with the chief concern being that this could give Apple more power over individual repairs in the future.It comes in two cases, weighing 79 pounds, which come on wheels and can also be stacked. Apple’s iPhone repair kit is rented for $49/week. The biggest concern about Apple’s new Self Service Repair program has to do with a serial number check during the checkout process.
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