iPhone 11 Screen Replacement: Fix Your Cracked Screen!

The screen on the iPhone 11 may have been strengthened through a dual ion-exchange process, but it’s not indestructible. Drops can cause cracked and shattered screens, but replacing the screen in your iPhone 11 is pretty easy, and you don’t need to rely on Apple to do it for you.

Need to re-install adhesive strips in your iPhone 11? Check out our video on how to do that!

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Just need the tools for this repair? Check out our Essential Electronics Toolkit!

00:00 Introduction
0:13 Required Parts and Tools
0:38 Opening the iPhone 11
2:35 Disconnecting the Display Cables
3:27 Front Facing Sensor Assembly Removal
4:35 Re-Installing Front Facing Sensor Assembly
5:21 Reconnecting the Display Cables
6:06 Closing the iPhone

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[davidtran]

Watching this through my cracked screen rn lol!

[violetlook]

I am 13 years old and I did this perfectly because of your instructions
I am so so so so grateful for this video, it helped me so much! This brings me to if you want something done right, do it yourself. I couldn't have done it without this video.

[gayathriramachandran]

Bro my heart was racing but this worked. My iPhone screen is fixed because of this tutorial!

[labibrahman]

Before screwing back the brackets its a good idea to power on the phone and check the display. If something's wrong, turn off the phone, disconnect the battery and check whether the flex cables have been properly connected.

[MrRickTic]

I do this everyday and i have a few recommendations to make this easier. When removing the clip over the ambient light sensor go in from the side with your tweezers and not from the top or bottom. Heat the screen a good amount(if the screen is damaged and your throwing it away) and use you tweezers like a lever and get under the clear bracket and lever the entire clear bracket up from both sides then it will be much easier to get the mic off and the light sensor will come out of the clear bracket. This method is the safest way to remove all the sensors without causing any damage to them and the easiest way to remove the mic with all the adhesive and protective mesh.

[eboymario]

Quarantine got me watching phone repairs now

[jasonlockamy]

Thank you for posting this. Saved us a lot of money. Followed the video step by step, and it went smooth the whole way. I didn't have the double suction cups so had to use two individual cups and used a hair dryer to heat the adhesive.

[luhlekhanyile]

Watching all these phone repair videos has taught me that I can only trust myself with phone repairs!

[porshatatum]

Thank you so much! It worked! The only problem I had was screwing the top screw back in on the bracket that is holding the battery connector. Whew! Everything else was easy to follow. Thanks for keeping the directions simple, and explaining each part. I paused the video as I followed along. My iPhone screen looks perfect again! I ordered the kit from Amazon for about $20, and followed your directions. This saved me $195!

[arc]

i watched this shit after breaking my iphone and realised shit man i cant do this

[MrRobinkicksass]

I had a very successful first screen replacement repair in one evening thanks to your video!!!

[elgallo]

THANK YOU!!!! Saved over $50 bucks doing it myself..easy to follow instructions..excellent...you have a new subscriber...thanks again, my daughter is happy it works again..lol!!!

[ShawnBlount]

After watching this…. Made me happy to pay someone else to replace it

[austinricker]

4:48 Be sure that your bracket is properly installed on the metal pin, not between the pin and the sensor. Also, at 3:54 you can pry up on your plastic camera bracket from the right with tweezers to lift up the proximity sensor more easily, reducing the risk of damaging it. It is also good practice to transfer the adhesive left behind from the microphone seen at 4:30 to your new screen. At 6:13 also make sure to check the right side of the phone to ensure your display cables won't get pinched. Use the flat end of a plastic spudger to gently nudge the cables away from the edge of the frame.

[cadecody]

POV: you are watching this through a cracked screen.

[davec]

My two cents. If you’re old like me or just have bad eyes up the magnification of the reading glasses. I use 1.5 normally, but would go as high as possible if I do this job again. The screws and screwdriver tips are so small they were just blurs and it took a while to figure out which tools included in kit went to which screws. Also keep those screws in order by placing them on the sticky side of tape when removed. That trick saved me. Also my tools were magnetized, but you have to place tool tip in screw head then slide fingers up tool shaft until past screw and it is still sitting properly on the tip. Took me a 1/2 hour to figure this out with first screw, then got a lot easier.

[doranfixeseverything]

I did it!! And everything is fine including Face ID! Getting the screen off took WAY more heating than said in the video though, and quite a lot of trial and error on the very cracked screen with some tape and the suction cup. The 000 screws were also an absolute pain to get out even with the right bit. I had to apply loads of downward pressure just to loosen them. Some did not budge even then... Thankfully, I figured you can get away with taking only most of them out and careful bending the small metal sheets to access and unplug/replug the bits under them. I also found that the flex cables on the new screen did not quite fit around the L shaped metal plate: the cables were running over where the screws would have to go. So I didn't bother putting the L shaped metal plate back in at all. It's fine! When you boot up again you get an error message from the phone about third party hardware, but everything works just like before except you do not have TrueTone anymore. I looked it up and it seems that since the iOS 16.5 update it is much more difficult to use a programmer like the JCV or iCopy to restore TrueTone whilst reassembling the phone. Since those are worth £100 or more and the alternative would be getting a proper repair from Apple, for which they currently charge a whopping £220, I figured I can live without. This kit costs £60 so compared to getting it fixed by Apple you would be spending an extra £160 just to retain TrueTone... Not worth it imo! Personally I can barely tell the difference now it is disabled so it cannot have been that useful :D

Thank you iFixit for this amazing guide :)

[krisfidler]

Just replaced the screen on my daughter's iPhone. Thank you! All works as it should.

[a.ffirmative]

Why am i watching this at 3 am with an iPhone 7 in perfect condition

[sjuvanet]

Do it all yourself for $130, minus the water protection. It's a great deal, honestly, and you can definitely do it with patience and care. Trust me, it is not difficult if you follow instructions and proceed with caution. Will take ~30 minutes tops.