by https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en
Then a curious thing happened: True Tone started disappearing after screen repairs, even with genuine screens. Then some aftermarket screens stopped working. Some of these bugs were fixed, some were not.
Following the fury of Batterygate, when the world learned that Apple was slowing down phones with older batteries, the company doubled down and started locking batteries to the logic board via an iOS update. The update hid battery health from the owner of the device with third party batteries, removing a critical lifespan management feature.
Around the same time, the iPhone X introduced Face ID, a revolutionary technology with an unfortunately paired dot projector. As with the biometric sensor, we assumed this was a security issue and, while we didn’t like it, we justified Apple’s behavior because moving to new technology often comes with compromises. So we reluctantly made a carveout in our scoring system for security—but this just as quickly became a slippery slope.
