Apple plans to give customers the ability to repair their own devices amid growing pressure from regulators and consumers around the world for manufacturers to ease restrictions on fixing products, reported The Wall Street Journal.
The company on Wednesday announced a new program that will make spare parts for Apple products available to purchase starting early next year.
The program, known as Self Service Repair, will let users fix broken devices using repair manuals that Apple will post on its website.
Apple plans to start with some components that tend to require replacement such as displays, batteries and camera modules.
The company says it will have more than 200 parts and tools available at launch and plans for more to be added later next year. The repair program will initially be available only for iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 users, but will later expand to Mac computers that use Apple’s new in-house M1 chip.
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