With this in mind, it would be natural to expect the iPhone Air, Apple’s thinnest ever smartphone, to be among its most repair-unfriendly devices. But a surprising new teardown of the device indicates that this is not the case. When iFixit tore down the iPhone 16e earlier this year, the site complained that the USB-C port was very difficult to remove and replace. “With Apple, our concern is parts pairing and software locks,” iFixit concluded the teardown, “though in recent years that has been getting better. Our initial tests suggests that parts pairing is still there but it might not be the repair boogeyman of years past.