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AirPods Pro 2 Teardown - Still Completely Unrepairable?
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2024
- Apple’s AirPods are the most popular earbuds in the world-they are also among the most unfixable. With the AirPods Pro 2, the flagship line gets a boost, in all arenas, apparently, except the environment. Personalized spatial audio can give you a great sound experience, but can it mute the guilt from wearing unrepairable future-e-waste? With its new pods, could Apple finally be thinking different?
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00:00 Introduction
00:24 Environmental Impact
00: 40 Rare Earth Magnets
00:59 Earbud Teardown
01:15 Earbud Battery Removal
01:33 Going Ultrasonic
01:46 Charging Case Teardown
01:55 Casie the Sad Case
02:11 Lanyard and Charge Port
02:35 Outro
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Why not also make a teardown of some earbuds, that actually are designed to be repairable? Would be great to also show people an example of how it should be done. Sony WF-1000XM4 for example, isn't glued together and even has coin cell batteries that can be replaced relatively easily.
If only I can find those batteries on Amazon, or ebay. I have the Sony wf-1000xm4
sony wf-1000-xm3 are easily repairable
@@QH96 this is true. I've taken apart my right Sony wf-1000xm3 as it wasn't charging. I couldn't find the replacement battery sadly
@@corey7219 aliexpress has anything you want
Sony earbuds are also poorly made unreliable junk. I haven’t touched Sony earbuds for 10 years because every pair I bought died within three months. Sometimes a product is poorly made rather than being “easily repairable.”
I'm still hoping for an iFixit collabo with some makers to see "replacement shells" made, so that the guts of the iBuds can be transferred into a case that allows easier service. iFixit has been at this long enough, that more sophisticated teardown methods might be employed... cnc, for example. With the fancy lithography, you can see where the battery is, so that "ooh scary" part shouldn't really have been necessary, except as a public service...
It is called *AirPods Pro 2nd Generation* 😂 not ibuds lmao
@@flamingkillermc2806 reminds me of when people still call the Apple Watch an iWatch
No
The same guy who put USB-C on the iPhone did that for airpods!
Working on it :)
Love the video, just got mine today!
“Can it mute the guilt of wearing unrepairable e-waste”??? Your writers are out of control. Power to you guys and your cause but literally no one who buys AirPods will ever feel said guilt
Wearing them whilst watching the vid. Can definitely agree 👍👍👍
99% of consumers don’t care about e-waste and it’s not our responsibility either. Big corporations should always be held accountable for big issues.
I’m not wasting my life saddled with guilt over my “carbon footprint” and all that BS.
@@LoFi3 honestly!
Sorry dude but I feel differently. Concerns about repairability would show that they are being more conscious and considerate, since at Apple's scale they literally sell stuff by the million, it cannot be said to be a small deal.
i care a little bit but at the end of the day there’s not much i can do other than keep them around as long as i possibly can
ifixit teardowns are not as detailed as before
There is no need to, if you go to their website, you have a very detailed guide to open them
They are just being woke so potential woke investors can go through their videos and give them money
@@ozordiprince9405 woke? elaborate please
@@ozordiprince9405what??? like literally who asked
Are there any earbuds that you can replace the battery relatively easily?
At least Apple themselves have engineered robots that separate AirPods and their cases into individual components but that only does so much until everyone getting rid of old AirPods does so at an Apple Store or via mail-in recycling
Guess I’m going to have to look elsewhere for an actual analysis of the changes…thanks for the PSA though
shenzhen repair shops have been able to replacing airpods batteries without leaving a mark for some time, and yet ifxit still don't know how to tear down airpods without a vibroknife
Exactly. They cried about Apple Watch ultra being too hard to repair and broke the screen during tear down, while I’ve seen loads of easy tear downs from Chinese repairers😂
Yes. I can't remember but I watched a CZcams video of a tech repair channel that has custom repair equipment for airpods. The dude changed the batter in both the case and the buds in like 7 minutes
So true!
I opened the casing on these in just minutes by squeezing the casing, then sliding my 10mm filling knife in the gap!
Obviously I still damaged the PCB because the cable connectos are bonded in 🙄
Thankfully I found it in the streets and only wanted the cells for a project 🥳
I feel like the only real way to make the buds easily repairable would be to take the bottom and put a screw in that, attach the driver and wireless chip (whatever it becomes) with a magnet connector and have the rest of the bus slide out from the bottom iPod-mini style.
I’ll say this, while it’s painful to know these are going to ewaste it’s hard to make something as small as a literal headphone jack repairable.
If they could use an adhesive for the seam where the two halves connect that could be seperated at high temp but still durable enough to not come apart under normal circumstances instead of ultrasonic welding it together I think that would be the ideal situation. It doesn't even have to be easily repairible for a normal consumer, as long as a repair shop or confident DIYer or more importabtly even, make it possible for an ewaste recycler to pull the batteries out for disposal. The only thing they need to make replaceable is the battery.
Apple advertises that they're going environmentally friendly and they are getting it in some areas, but how is their newest pair in the lineup even worse than the last. So much for being eco friendly!
They have ofc been making progress, but again this is their NEWEST PAIR in the LINEUP. HOW?
I like how they don't include a charger to help with waste but also make 4+ models of new phones every year
@@sorrows_touch you know that 4 new models a year isn’t much at all right?
@@sorrows_touch Samsung I swear makes 200 per year, apple only 5
@@sorrows_touch what about the fact that they dont repair their devices in most markets outside of the us. And with their software locks if your iphone breaks, apple just says chuck it in the ocean 🙄. Some serious environment saving.
@@iustin1658 I didn't say that was right either, I think Samsung making so many models per year is way worse than what Apples doing but this video was about Apple
Will you do and AirPods Max tear down with a repairability score?
What is the tool you’re using at 1:56? Is that like a heated exacto blade? I’ve never seen one and I have a need!
I wonder if dropping something like airpod case into a sous vide bag, sealing it and soaking it at 180f or whatever temp will soften the adhesive without damaging the plastics would be a reasonable solution at home?
3d printer bed works well for heating a surface but something like this it seems like just isn't really possible to remove at all.
Then you'd have a perfectly cooked medium-rare Airpods Pro 2 case...enjoy!
@@The_Crazy_Monkey75 180f is for sure well done lol
So what ear buds are repairable? Other than replacing the battery in the Sony WF-1000XMA.
Fairbuds from Fairphone.
Where can I buy that hot knife?
Hi! What battery brand they have inside? Thank you
Im not an professional repairer but i took these apart without destroying the case so i dont even know how you guys did a job like this
I love those 3D x-rays.
Can you do a Teardown of the Dell G15 next?
If it's mainly the case what if you get someone to 3D print another case or if there is a company that sells the case without all the internals I mean then it would be possible to repair it. It's a work around but it still would be possible not sure if the cost would outweigh the repair price but at least that would make it repairable. I do feel you are right that it's pretty much gonna be thrown out which is sad especially bad that you risk puncturing the battery.
do they have any inner grid for microphone or bass as the 1st gen airpods pro?
My AirPods Pro Gen 1 are 5 months old and gone for a replacement.Good to see the tear down and the warnings,” don’t try this at home or anywhere”.
So I still don’t know whats that one extra hole at the bottom left of the case is after watching nearly every AirPods Pro 2 videos…
Please explain what the components are beside ranting on the repairability of these things
But how about the drivers???
Are some other earbuds better? Would be interesting to see a good example (if such a thing exists)
Sony WF-1000XM4's have a replaceable battery for the buds, not sure about the case.
Good earbuds are no earbuds but cabled earphones.
Thanks for a great presentation! Can someone please explain the function the black shiny, smooth, grill-less sensor on the AirPods Pro 2 is used for? The other two sensors have distinctive grills-just curious…
It’s skin detection to let the AirPods know it’s in your ear. The previous gen had grills in that same spot but it would trick the AirPods to think it was in the ear even when it wasn’t. With the new gen, that shiny surface is to let the AirPods know that it’s in contact with skin and only skin, not any other surface
now teardown for bose qc 2 let's see what's the secret of best anc in that earbuds
Please do a Motorola Razer 2022 teardown
2:13 so is the single hole on the bottom just a vent for the speaker?
It’s a mic
It is tiny, even more stuff jammed inside this time. It is hard to beat physics. Of course larger ones are easier to repair.
Yeah I think ifixit expects apple to put freaking screw driver holes in them despite them not having enough space and being one single piece of moulded plastic meaning it obviously that can't come apart and cleanly and be re assembled
It's only the glue stopping these from being easily repairable!
The casing is the easy part, but they went ott lol
@@deanosaur808 emm… Glue is there to hold components in place. Screws or other mechanisms take up much more space. That is what I am trying to say. Screws at this size?
Galaxy buds2 pro please it would be very cool
it still can fix😍
Что за датчики стоят в крышке кейса? Рекомендуют фонариком светить, для определения оригинальных наушников на крышку кейса.
It would be cool to be able to repair them but the question is how? Didn't fairphone make ones and they still aren't repairable? I think it's not really easy to do
I know, right?
Everyone argues that they should be repairable but considering the size, considering the need for them to be durable to a point..
It would take a lot of effort, and time to try to repair small earbuds without breaking them, no-one would want to repair them considering how small they are, how hard it is to complete. If you had them long enough to worry about the battery, theres going to be a huge amount of ear wax, along with dirt etc.
It would cost bare minimum $100 to do it, even if the battery was free. You could fairly easily get a new pair of them for that price.
Small electronics are difficult to repair quickly without breaking them
Not to mention by the time theyre dead, new versions will most likely be out
@@meowie64 What?? Check out Sony wf-1000xm4. Definitely repairable.
and... that is why wired is better.
@@xyetian3465 ouchies.
@@Iisakki3000 he is right. when you bought airpods back in 2019, why wouldnt you now just get gen3s? theyre much better, repairing old ones would be a waste of time and money. phones are a different story, you can keep them for up to 6 years with apples updates. earbuds are not designed to be kept this long. especially the tiny batteries.
Airpods Pro 2 Magsafe Box should be charge %100 ?? Otherwise, %20 - %80 should be charge ??
Can you tell us how you sustainably recycled these “bought to be ripped apart” AirPods? And make sure you shout, it’s hard to hear you up there on your high horse….
There should be a law that all devices should have a reparability score of 8/10 or higher….
What’s the process after you recycle AirPods through Apple themselves?
Literally just drop them off at Apple store.
Ask Tim, he must know.
Which manufacturer are the headboards in the headphones from?
I mean, I have ideas about how this could be repairable and even modular, but I’d bankrupt Apple in a week chasing my fever dream of RepAirPods.
Do Samsung’s ear pods replaceable batteries?
So i've seen a few videos of people repairing the buds - it's not easy, but doable for sure
Galaxy buds 2 pro ?
anyone know what kind of hot plastic scalpel he uses to melt the case 1:55 ???
Some model?
Because I need to buy something similar...
I know it’s hard to open but some repair shops in China and my country manage to get batteries changed
Did they need to destroy the plastic cover and replaced it with new oem parts? If yes its still producing e-waste
@@Open6a-fx4qf nope they don't it's hard to open without destroy but not impossible
lumafield's ct scan is dope.
I need some Samsung ear buds fixed.. can you help?
What is that vibro knife?
Which ones are the most repair friendly buds out there, also having a decent performance for the price. I want something that holds it value for a long time. Right now i am using airpods pro copy for $12 in China, this one seems an use and throw product for the price it comes and having excellent sound performance. Who buys Apple when c competition nailing its coffin.
oops, you had an extra space in "00: 40 Rare Earth Magnets" in the description, so the number cant be clocked
No sure why people think AirPods would be fixable… like they’ve been out for years we should all know this
$250 a pop, people expected these to be “repairable”.. video even said it, “crammed” in. What you expect, Lego setup for easy repair for a small earpiece! Smaller a product becomes, repairability is Zero
Yes we get it, they're terrible to repair.
But I'd love to get some more explanation to the parts. I'm looking at the single hole next to the port and speaker at the bottom of the charging case. What's that?
Does right earbud also have h2 chip or just the left earbud only?
both of then have it
I've opened, disassembled and closed an AirPods Pro case without destroying it ... just some light visual damage, but that's it.
I searched this up because my brother broke some AirPods that I found and they came apart. I put them back together, but the top part won’t come back on and my mom said she will come home and fix it
Apple no longer cares about what anyone thinks, as long as millons of apple fanboys and fangirls continue to run out and buy the latest apple gadget as soon as it's released.
I like the fit of these earpods so I bought some of the best fake apple pro 2 I could find only cost me $45. They sound pretty good and for the money can't beat them. Iphones think they are really and do what I real set would do when connecting them and setting them up. Best part is they can be serviced very easily. Just a little squeeze and they open right up, battery was right there and $10 spent on a batteries and 4 solder points and back together they went. No glue at all inside these. I get around 6-7 hours of play time and couldn't be happier.
Airpods are around 40gr with case. Your car radio has 100x more e-waste. You could get new airpods every year of your life and not accumulate enough e-waste for 1 tv, or 1 laptop, or 1 toaster. Not to mention a fridge, an oven or a stereo system.
To make a case for Apple.
Also repair what, exactly? The airpod batteries constitute more than half of the ewaste of the product.
From an engineering perspective I don't see how repairable earbuds make sense, might be wrong.
@@AJ-wf1vh lmao you're saying a repairable 300€ premium product doesn't make sense, but a disposable one does. You can eather waste money or get repairable ones like sony wf-1000xm4 where you spend like 20€ for new batteries instead of 300€ when the batteries go bad.
@@Iisakki3000 just say your problem is being Apple's paypig
not the environment
I don't use Apple products either
@@Iisakki3000 You can get them replaced for Apple for much less. And you wouldnt need to replace the case.
Btw, I've been using 2 pairs of chinesium 20$ earbuds daily for 3 years that are not repairable
The battery on both of them is still solid
I don't even have an excuse to replace them
I have no doubts that if apple engineered theirs correctly, they will last around 5 years until the battery goes bad. If you keep them for that long, they'll probably disintegrate before that point
It's nice that the sonys are repairable, but they're also bigger
I gotta say, I don't like how you jumpcutted the case teardown into about 30 seconds. That was the most interesting part of the set for me; I really wanted to see how all of those components work together, as well as any new chips on the board....
Yes they didn't even talk about how apple managed to add both regular wireless charging and apple watch' special charging in a tiny space and ifbthe method they used can be implemented into other devices. They also didn't show the speakers on the bottom of the case
底部左侧的小孔里是什么传感器
Bro what is your accent😂
Did you grow up in Ireland and move to the US or the otherway around
A beautiful piece of engineering, head to head with its software
I mean your compressing battery, microphone, receiver, H1 chip, etc in a small compact space. Repairability is always the sacrifice.
I mean considering I threw away wired earbuds 1-2x a year and have my AirPod pros for 3 years now that's a win.
"guilt from wearing unrepairable ewaste"
Me: NOPE, sry karen.
Seriously. I going to avoid everything ifixit. Duckin ball washing bastards
They talk so much about saving the environment, and then they make a practically un recyclable product.
2:34 i won't call something that deseable some functions if you fix it yourselft reparable
I don't like the last couple of teardown made by iFixit, they don't have the same vibe in ly opinion and now it's just ranting and ranting without explaining much compared to before
Good thing you just ruined perfectly good airpods to add to e-waste! xD
Someone fire this guy and get someone with a technical background this guy literally destroys every tech he gets his hands on
You forgot to teardown the charging case's cap
Someone, please explain to me how you can make AirPods repairable and literally not compromise on anything
A set of "repairable" wireless earbuds wouldn't be nearly as compact. Smaller devices just aren't going to be repairable and that's okay.
Apple is the richest company in the world!!! Their engineer should be top notch!!!! I'm sure they can fit a micrometer sized nuclear reactor into the buds, make it removable, and still retain their IP69 water resistant up to 420m for 20 years, and a battery life that lasts 69 years on a single charge!!! The buds themselves aren't even that small, they are larger than my mega sized PP!!! With all the space they got, how hard is it to fit the removable battery inside???!!! They are purposely making this really hard becuz they want money!!!!
/s in case it isn't obvious enough
@@Summer-xu8qu I'm sure Apple can make repairable ones like sony also does.
@@Iisakki3000 - And as a buyer I dont care if they are not. By the way show me how can i get them repaired officially by Sony? Show me the text on their website if they are meant to be repairable.
@@trancenut81 If you have more money than brains I can't really stop you.
The subtitles being different to what was being said really threw me off at a few moments there.
How are they more environmentally damaging than plastic milk bottle cap? Unlike a plastic bottle cap, they can be used for years before they even end up in landfill. Mine are working fine at 3 years old.
Really? First of all because a milk bottle cap is made of one single material easy to recycle. Because they are a mix of circuit boards with electronic components, batteries, glues and plastic at a form factor so small and being so closed up, there's no way to dissasemble them with reasonable and economically viable effort. Also single Airpods are frequently lost quickly rendering them as dirty unusable trash so they also end up in regular trash bins apart from electronics recycling at least.
Recycling is a thing. Unlike airpods, plastic bottle caps are easy to recycle.
In all honesty I am going to lose them before they break
Another reason to not buy this trash
There are plenty of videos online showing how to replace the case and headphone batteries. Not sure where you guys went wrong. Also I feel you’re conflating ease of repairability with repairability. I’m willing to make the compromise on AirPods due to the size.
apple: we do support repair! we care of environment! michael myers is a good boy!
The problem humans have is that they want everything about everything: good price, solid construction, practicality, good materials, good durability, good performance, resistant to drops and at the same time easy to take apart for "fixing". Good logic right there.
it is very possible to achieve, with todays technology and the money apple has. it just doesn't turn a profit. its not unreasonable to ask this from a company which is making earbuds which can cancel sound waves as they enter the bud before they enter your ear. its not that technically challenging
You can always repurpose the circuitry inside the buds, fit a standard 18650 or pouch cell and build your own wireless headphones or bluetooth speakers, so not a total waste when the battery dies. But of course they wont be a pair of AirPods after that...
Very good 👏👏👏👏
Look at the state of that casing 🤣
Opening the casing is the easiest part. The rest is a nightmare on elm street 😱
Still I managed to salvage the battery 🥳
Apple keeps giving me reasons to stick with my Lighting EarPods.
Repair, Reuse, Recycle in that order.
It cracks me up how many people still believe Apple is all about saving the environment. 😂
Oh 😮Nice tank you bros
Did i just witness "Definition of Over-Engineering"?
Great video - feels evil defacing Apple but in the interest of repairs... Have you more details on the vibroknife?
So if the person doing the repair is skilled enough they can replace the battery in these things, I’ve seen some shop here in Thailand specializing in replacing AirPods battery, so it’s not impossible it’s possible you just have to be skilled enough to do it
You want it to be recycled properly, sent it to apple if you have other brand see if they have a recycling program if they have such program send it to them
this is why i keep all
my e-waste until we have better solutions
This entire video just seemed like an excuse for iFixit to Apple bash.
Thank you for this insight. Along with the fact that the battery is supposed to last about 3 years, and after that time, the AirPods soon need to be replaced ... I will NOT buy them, period. I will not go along with this senseless waste.
compare it with some other products then. who makes water resistant earbuds that allow battery to be replaced? well nobody 😅 it’s nice to talk how bad it is but don’t forget about others on the market.
"But can it mute the guilt of wearing unrepairable e-waste?"
Very nicely described - zero love given back. 👌
You sure your tear down skills don’t need some refinement though?
Glad you’re addressing it, shame on apple
Seeing blowtorch in the background does not give me much hope for repairability.
We should mail broken AirPods to apple en masse as a campaign