"The point of the legislation is that it won't most likely require [Apple] to completely change the design of the product," says Ugo Vallauri, codirector of The Restart Project and a founding member of the Right to Repair Europe coalition. "As long as they can supply the spare part as well as the tools needed to perform the repair and it can be performed by a generalist person-someone with some level of competence-they would not need to change much further, which can be potentially seen as a weakness of the legislation. We will see what happens in that respect."
But easier battery replacements are just one part of the story. Apple is notorious for 'parts pairing,' the policy where it uses software to identify and approve parts. Apple will disable certain features if it finds the part wasn't sourced from Apple's official channels-even if the part comes directly from another iPhone. For example, as iFixit's website says, if you replace your iPhone's screen with a genuine but second-hand part, your device will lose access to Apple's True Tone and auto-brightness features, even though the screen will otherwise function normally. You may also see warning messages for replaced parts that Apple cannot identify.
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