It’s easier than you think, not to mention cheaper. But if you truly trust no one, your best bet is replace that battery yourself. Or, at the very least, avoid giving them your passcode. If you do take your device to someone else for a repair-whether it’s a shop run by the manufacturer or it’s a local mom-and-pop business-back up and wipe your phone before handing it over. They’re run by people: regular, fallible, people. That’s not to say you shouldn’t get your phone repaired at Apple, or an independent shop (who, by the way, can perform repairs manufacturers like Apple will refuse outright.) But manufacturer-run shops, who are trying to stymie those independent businesses, are no more or less trustworthy than anyone else. If you can repair your own device at home, why risk giving it to someone you don’t know? It’s the principle behind open-source software (if anyone can examine the code, anyone can point out security issues), end-to-end encryption (if only you hold the key, not even the company can read your data), and the right to repair. As Crane himself said in that same radio interview: “If you ask any cybersecurity professional, if I can get my hands on the device, I have a much higher likelihood and a strong advantage in compromising the integrity of that device.” That goes for everyone, not just independent shops, and any other cybersecurity expert would tell you the same thing. The only hands you can truly trust are your own. I’d like to see them explain that to Gloria Fuentes. In a radio interview last year, Earl Crane of the Security Innovation Center said that the organization opposed right to repair because “We want to be able to provide security and have accountability for the security that an organization needs to provide.” Other representatives of the anti-repair group, who we believe is indirectly funded by Apple, have said similar things in the past, claiming that independent repair can compromise security and privacy. They’re the actions of individual people, who can be “ fallible and occasionally evil.” But the manufacturers use privacy as a lynchpin in their lobbying against right to repair.

These incidents aren’t an indictment of every single employee at Apple, Verizon, and other large companies, of course. Features a 4.7 inch 750 x 1334 pixel IPS LCD Display, Front Glass Digitizer Panel, Front Camera Assembly, Earpiece Speaker, and LCD Shield Plate. Includes all of the small parts preinstalled in the assembly. Replace a screen compatible with iPhone 7.

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