When I was growing up, about 4 or 5 years old, I had an unorthodox favourite type of reading material: service manuals for my dad’s audio equipment. This got to the point that I kept asking my parents ...

When a vital piece of medical equipment breaks these days, a friendly corporate repair person isn't necessarily an easy phone call away. However, thanks to a motley collection of right-to-repair ...

Whether you're planning to fix your iPhone screen, or you're just curious to see what the new Self Service Repair program entails, you can now download Apple's instructions to get all of the details.

Tim Hicks is a 25-year-old Australian with an interesting hobby: He trawls the nooks and crannies of the internet looking for manufacturer service manuals and posts the PDFs online for free. Hicks was ...

Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching a new Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English. The Pixel Diagnostic App ...

Fairphone has been putting an emphasis on the repairability and sustainability of its phones for much of the past decade. The company has a long track record of delivering software updates for old ...

Independent technicians have reportedly been able to use leaked MacBook schematics to aid repairs (via Vice). Last month, Apple supplier Quanta Computer was hit with an attack by the ransomware group ...

Manuals for servicing consumer electronics have been around since the mid to late 1920s when commercial production of radios for households gave birth to the radio repair shop. Radio manufacturers as ...

There was a time when, if you were handy with a soldering iron, you could pretty easily open up a radio or TV repair business. You might not get rich, but you could make a good living. And if you had ...

Right to repair arguments often fall on deaf ears, especially at companies like Apple that are tight-lipped and only allow certain people to [officially] repair its products. What if Apple's hands ...

When only the manufacturer or their approved representatives can fix something, they can charge whatever they want or coerce you into purchasing a replacement, writes Nathan Proctor. Getty Images / ...

Apple officially opened up its self-service repair store that allows anyone to buy genuine iPhone parts and tools. And along with the launch, the company has detailed documentation on the step-by-step ...