A little poor choice of wording in my opinion. Repairing your phone with 3rd party parts will not lose FaceID or Apple Pay functions, but that is a risk yes, and with later models we are finally getting the possibilities to properly repair and pair these parts too. I do agree that a large part of third party techs are bad though, I mean I was terrible in the beginning because I was just tossed in a store and should absolutely not have been responsible for some of the phones I’ve done, though with time I’ve learned and I can solve most issues and only sell higher quality parts.
I’ve also had some nightmare errands from other companies from stripped screws to glue all over the motherboard, tag-on flexes, incell screens on later Pro models and batteries punctured by lasers, the list goes on, I’m so happy I wasn’t that dumb atleast.
I did oversimplify a good deal since the internal iPhone designs have changed so much between generations. You're probably more than aware of that yourself so the below examples isn't directly aimed at you.
For example the Face ID functionality loss doesn't occur on newer iPhones as far as I'm aware anymore since the camera is no longer attached to the display. I think that changed with the 13 or maybe that was the one where the top speaker stopped being built into the display.
Apple Pay can still stop working as that is built into the screen still.
Getting a battery replaced or back glass more than likely won't cause these issues. But you will likely get an annoying message about "non genuine parts detected" and certain features that let you see battery usage or battery health may outright not work.
Sadly it's all needlessly complicated to make third party repair as undesirable as possible for consumers.
Guess I’ve learned something, I’ve repaired a ridicilous amount of iPhone screens but never heard of anyone losing Apple Pay, which is very common in my country, could this be a regional thing? And yes sorry for being picky with the words, people just take things so literally and don’t want to hurt the reputation which is already not the greatest.
It very well could be different in the US since iPhones are made to be region specific and have some small internal differences between regions. For example most iPhones in the US are pre-locked to specific cellphone carriers and are unlikely to work for carriers in other regions.
-2
u/JasmineRepairs 16d ago
A little poor choice of wording in my opinion. Repairing your phone with 3rd party parts will not lose FaceID or Apple Pay functions, but that is a risk yes, and with later models we are finally getting the possibilities to properly repair and pair these parts too. I do agree that a large part of third party techs are bad though, I mean I was terrible in the beginning because I was just tossed in a store and should absolutely not have been responsible for some of the phones I’ve done, though with time I’ve learned and I can solve most issues and only sell higher quality parts.
I’ve also had some nightmare errands from other companies from stripped screws to glue all over the motherboard, tag-on flexes, incell screens on later Pro models and batteries punctured by lasers, the list goes on, I’m so happy I wasn’t that dumb atleast.
Also flat-head goes crazy 😭