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You replace the screen, enter passcode and do a backup, easy. Dont worry, Apple is hard at work implementing parts blacklists and soon wont allow 3rd party technicians screen replacements, because fraud or something. Oh, and Apple doesnt repair/recover broken devices, but they will gladly "upgrade" you to a new phone for only 599, or swap your broken one for a refurb.

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> Dont worry, Apple is hard at work implementing parts blacklists

Source?

We get iPhone repairs out of Apple very often - If we mention it's urgent they'll swap it for a refurb, which is a good thing: It's allowed me to be in-and-out in 15 minutes versus dropping an iPhone off and picking it up the next day.

We have a business account - I've not broken my personal iPhone in years so I can't speak as a consumer. I did have a MacBook Pro 15" keyboard (pre-butterfly) fail WAY out of warranty and they replaced that for free too. Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe Apple aren't so bad to deal with after all?

> Apple doesnt repair/recover broken devices

Except for the fact they do ? https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service

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