iPhone XS Battery Replacement - How To

The iPhone XS has one of the longest lasting batteries ever found in an iPhone….yet. But even the biggest batteries can’t last forever, and one day you’ll need to replace it. So, today we’re showing you how to replace the battery in your iPhone XS.

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[Esledinho]

When opened, NEVER touch the FACE ID SENSOR near the front camera, It's VERY VERY fragile and can work bad after the process! (I'm a technician)

[jameswalker]

4 mins into this and I’ve come to the conclusion I’m not doing this 😂

[HeavyPilot]

After replacing the battery and trackpad on my wife's Macbook Air, I was feeling brave about maybe replacing my phone battery. This video talked me right out of it.

[crisfoo]

I always fixed my own phones when it was needed, the last one that I repaired was the iPhone 6, it was really easy!, after this video I’m going to pay for the first time to someone to fix my phone 😂

[brettito]

I appreciate the steps putting it back together.

[chriscimorelli]

Thank you your video made it so easy, took less than an hour and turned right back on

[BadpeopleJamaicanXD]

Bro this video literally changed my mind about replacing my battery 😂 thinking about a battery case now

[ElmowafakSALIM]

This is so infomative and helpful, I really liked it so much, thank you for this simplified video

[daehr]

Thank you very much for the video! My iPhone is starting to have battery issues (simply due to age) and I need to replace the back plate as it is cracked. May as well replace the speaker too as it is a bit blown. Great to see that I can get this done in (hopefully haha) one session. So this is very useful, thank you! (btw I'm an ANSI certified tech with about 5 years of experience, so this is pretty straight forward). Thank you again iFixit!

[melystorm]

Thanks a lot for not plugging the screen adhesive replacement video and so manny steps left out of this video.

[antonmarek]

Holy....They really caught on after a few years, and made it more difficult. This is reminiscent of the iPhone 4 which was also a pain in the ass!

[shakmwanse]

Followed this video and changed my iphoneXS battery in less than an hour. This is my first time ever opening a mobile phone to attempt something of this magnitude…well unless for Nokia 3310’s which pretty much came apart and together like a puzzle would.
Thanks for the video.
How does one fix the Battery Service-mode the phone goes into after that though? Has apple changed their policy on this yet? I read somewhere that even if you put a genuine from apple replacement battery, you’ll still get that notification on the XS and other models.

[nickhansbauer]

Thanks for the really informative video! If I have my battery changed through Apple, will that still impact the water resistance or do they the reapply adhesive?

[oathman]

You removed the speaker assembly don’t you think you messed up the water resistant adhesive ?

[SilentMott]

I know this is old now but I just finished replacing my wife's battery (I'm not a "tech guy" per se but I love working on it). Couple of things would be nice here as I went through this process: I wish there had been more discussion on how to PROPERLY adhere the new gasket to the speaker and screen, the video on another ifixit demo really doesn't show much other than a guy being good at it, I pressed mine in and applied hand heat before I took the final blue protector off and it still seemed to peel back off and became really messy, I wouldn't have guaranteed much to the "waterproofness" of her phone after that. And also getting the actual battery out was a HUGE headache until I used a couple drops of alcohol. The pull tabs on the battery must have been brittle so they snapped from barely pulling at all and I had to retrieve three of the four with tweezers and a tiny bit of prying without bending the battery too much. These were the only two steps that made it difficult but needed more explanation (or options for achieving them) than I feel was given.

[freeyourself]

Does the battery life say service after replacing new battery? Thanks

[matthewdicksoncrusher]

Is it possible to open up display without removing tenpered glass for battery replacement?

[drm]

Hey! Did you just glue the screen back with its original adhesive? Cheers

[vighneshramesh]

This is a lot harder than I thought... removing the speaker and Taptic Engine is dangerous

[veltcardio]

What happens to the water resistant adhesive ?