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From a spring kickoff in Italy to a summer full of hacker camps and Maker Faires, iFixit tools and the Street Team showed up at events across Europe this year. Different places, same idea: repair knowledge grows when people share it. Come along for the ride and meet some of the Street Team members who make it happen. Our first stop was Hackaday Europe in Lecco, where hardware...

This article originally appeared on repair.eu, the site of the Right to Repair Europe coalition, on September 7, 2026. Since June 20th, 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the EU are subject to repairability requirements1. These also include a mandatory repairability score and an obligation to publish repair information. The repairability score is self-reported by…

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Today, like so much of the tech world, as Apple announced their Fall 2026 product lineup, the iFixit team readied our bingo cards and placed bets on whether John Ternus would say “one more thing” (Matt won). Usually we’re a pretty optimistic bunch. But looking at the iPhone Duo today we agreed: This one probably won’t be fixable. We’ve been tearing down foldable smartphones f...

Foldable smartphones have come a long way. The complex devices on the market today incorporate folding OLED panels, flexible glass, and increasingly sophisticated hinge mechanisms to deliver tablet size screens in a phone shaped form factor. But the origin story of the foldable phone is far less glitzy. It all started as nothing more than a plastic flip cover held in place by...

Good news! We just released seven new soldering tips for our FixHub Smart Soldering Iron. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath, pop on over to our store. New today: Bevel Cup 1.5, Bevel Cup 2.6, Angle Knife, Angle Cone, Bent Cone, Wedge 4.0, and Heat Insert Tip. Shop Now But if you just read that paragraph thinking, “You can get different tips for your soldering iron!?”…<...