Apple’s decision not to let anyone but themselves be able to repair the broken screens of the iPhone 13 would hit squarely with the right to repair, a European lawsuit that is also welcomed in the US.
If it does nothing, the news broke that Apple would be hitting users who decided on their own to fix the screen of their iPhone 13, now the news has taken a step further.
For all those who are unlucky enough to be clumsy, Apple has bad news for them, as they do not allow third parties to fix their screens. The way to trip this process has been by disabling the Face ID unlocking for all those mobiles that do not pass through their stores before.
But that was yesterday, since today we found out that Face ID does not activate even if we have bought an original replacement screen from Apple. We will only be able to access the facial unlocking when Apple itself is the one who makes us the repair.
This totally unjustified demand is has confirmed in the last hours. And it is that apparently the iPhone 13 go through a scanning process that gives permission or not to Face ID, so when we change the screen, when changing the serial number of this, the firewall jumps.
This machinery would only be in the possession of official or authorized Apple workshops, which would allow repair personnel at these sites to successfully replace the screen with a genuine part without disabling Face ID.
This situation would show that Apple is totally against the right to reparation, a European requirement that has already been approved in Parliament, and that forces companies to launch products that are easily repairable, even by the users themselves.
Apple, so far, has not made any official statement in this regard, although the pressure they are receiving suggests that they will soon give an explanation / justification. Although they have difficult to convince us why not even official screens can work with Face ID.