https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88qmda/iphone-14-secretly-redesigned-to-be-more-repairable

The iPhone 14 is here and it’s not exactly wowing critics. On the outside, the new phone appears to be a slight upgrade over its predecessor. But, according to iFixit, the inside is nothing short of a revolution. “Apple has completely redesigned the internals of the iPhone 14 to make it easier to repair,” iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said after iFixit disassembled the phone. “It’s the most significant design change to the iPhone in a long time.”

The iPhone has long been a notoriously difficult phone to repair. Its internals are a mess of parts that require proprietary tools and a steady hand to do even basic repairs. The iPhone 14 redesign has done away with much of that. The phone has a completely new frame with a thin metal sheet in the middle that allows easy access to both the front screen and the back glass. It can be opened from both the front and the back, which makes both screen replacements and back-glass replacements much easier than they were for past models.