Apple announced a change to its iPhone repair policies allowing the use of used parts and spoke to John Ternus, Apple’s head of hardware engineering. TechCrunch About this change of heart from Apple. And meanwhile, Responded to one of the biggest criticisms of the iPhone who repairs them.

since a while Apple has a rigorous parts matching process In this way, iPhone can inform you whether the battery or screen installed in your iPhone is original or not. This has long been criticized by many, including the repair experts at iFixit.

iPhone has a function to determine whether parts are original

Apple says iPhone parts control isn’t bad

John Ternus defends Apple’s practice of telling iPhones whether replaced parts are originalHe insists it’s a “not bad” thing to do.

I think “part matching” has led people to believe that we are somehow preventing third-party parts from working, but we don’t do that. Our perspective is that we need to know which part is in the device for several reasons. First, we need to verify that this is a genuine Apple biometric device and not spoofed or anything. …Calibration is the other.

Although Apple warns users that these are not genuine Apple parts, it allows the use of third-party parts. If an iPhone has been repaired, A “Parts and Service History” section appears in the Settings app under General > Informationand indicates whether non-genuine Apple parts are installed.

But, Apple allows the use of these third-party parts and the iPhone is not rendered unusable with one exception: Third-party parts related to Face ID and Touch IDAccording to Ternus, those that do not work on iPhones for security reasons are:

Because of the amount of information on our phones, you’re thinking about Touch ID and Face ID and the importance of their security. Our whole lives are on our phones. We have no way to verify third-party biometrics performance. This is one area where we do not allow the use of third-party modules for important security functions. But in all other respects we are.

This can also be good information in case you want to buy a second-hand iPhone. In a menu, you can see whether the parts used by that iPhone are original or not; This is something that can reduce the value of the device. That’s something interesting so that when the user repairs his iPhone he knows if he did so with non-original partsThis makes the repair more expensive.

I think this is a good precaution as long as Apple allows these parts to be used in the iPhone and just notifies the user. as information. The iPhone will work the same way with a non-original battery, it will just warn you about it.