Apple iPhone 6 Teardown

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble an Apple iPhone 6. I will remove the battery, screen assembly, rear camera, front camera, home button, speaker, vibrator, earpiece, and motherboard.

Looking for more funny teardowns? Follow us on Facebook for all the latest repair news.

iPhone 6 Disassembly Step:

Power off the iPhone 6.
Remove the SMI card and unscrew the two screws on both sides of the data port.

Separate the screen assembly with a sucker.

Insert a pry tool beneath the display assembly and slide it to completely separate the display assembly.

Be careful. There are two cables still connected to the screen assembly.

To avoid a short circuit in the dismantling process, you need to remove the battery first. Then, you need to remove the metal shield from the power cable.

Disconnect the battery power cable.

Remove the metal shield.

Disconnect the LCD cable, touch cable, fiber cable, and Touch ID cable.

The screen assembly has been removed.

Pull the white cable and remove the battery.

The iPhone 6 features a 1810mAh Li-Polymer battery.

Remove the metal shield covering the rear-facing camera.

Remove the rear-facing camera.

The left is the iPhone 5s rear-facing camera. On the right is the iPhone 6 rear-facing camera.

We use a vernier caliper; the rear camera thicknesses of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 are 5.61mm, with no change in thickness.

iPhone 6 rear-facing camera

In the next step, we will remove the motherboard. Disconnect the cable connected to the motherboard.

Disconnect the antenna.

Remove the screw.

Remove the metal shield covering the volume cable and switch cable.

Remove the GPS/Wi-Fi antenna.

Disconnect the two cables.

Now remove the motherboard.

The iPhone 5s has only one switch cable, which is integrated with the power button, volume button, mute button, flash, noise intercom, and vibrator.

The iPhone 6 vibrators moved to the lower part of the fuselage. The switch cable is divided into two and integrated with the volume button, mute button, power button, flash, and noise intercom.

Remove the screw securing the volume button.

Remove the screw securing the switch button.

The cable is glued to the rear casing and must be carefully peeled off.

This cable integrates a power button, flash, and noise intercom.

This cable integrated a volume button and a mute button.

Remove the speaker.

Remove the vibrator.

Compared to the iPhone 5s, the vibrator has changed.

Remove the antenna connection piece.

Remove the widget. The widget is used to fix the microphone.

Remove the SIM card tray.

In the next step, we remove the motherboard.
First, remove the graphite cotton.

Heat up the shield with a hot air gun. Remove these three shields.

Apple A8 processor

The iPhone 6 motherboard

Remove the home button mounting bracket.

Remove all screws.

Remove the shield covering the front camera.

Disconnect the sensor cable.

Remove the metal plate.

After removing the metal plate, you can find a Touch ID cable hidden in the graphite thermal film.

Remove the sensor cable. This cable integrates the ambient light sensor and the proximity sensor. It is worth mentioning that Apple has integrated the light sensor with the distance sensor, which reduces the number of openings on the front panel, but at the cost of higher expenses.

Earpiece

The home button is stuck on the screen.

Home button

All the parts in one picture

The iPhone 6 disassembly process is completed.