IFixIt

The Future Is Repairable

Things break. Wear and tear is normal, but throwing away almost-functional products shouldn’t be. As the world’s largest online repair community, we help thousands of people fix their broken stuff every day. We also have everything you need to fix your electronic devices yourself—quality replacement parts, specialty precision tools, and most importantly—free step-by-step repair guides for thousands of products.

A repairable future starts with you taking repair into your own hands and looks like active legislation and products designed to be fixed. iFixit is working at every level possible to make that repairable future a reality, and we couldn’t do it without your support. Together we can fix any thing. Broken Isn’t the End.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention—and for college students, the father of invention is probably a shoestring budget. In 2003, Kyle Wiens and Luke Soules found themselves with a broken iBook G3. Replacing the busted part wasn’t easy, especially with no instructions, but they managed to succeed with minimal broken tabs and lost screws. They began harvesting parts from partially broken laptops and selling them online. And then, they were making repair manuals and posting them online.

Soon, we were even taking apart the latest devices to get a sense of how challenging they’d be to fix. We called these “teardowns,” and the gadget world began to look to our repairability scores as a clear sign of repair ease. But we don’t just rank repair ease—we make it. By creating free repair manuals for so many things that have never been documented before, we’ve paved the way for making repairs as easy as possible. Throughout it all, the goal has been the same: Be the free repair guide for every thing.

You can fix it—we show you how.