Here’s What It’s Like Behind the Teardown

Ever wondered what it takes to tear down the latest devices? Well, it ain’t all guts and tech dissection glory. Our more complicated teardowns can take dozens of people, hundreds of man hours, and gallons of highly caffeinated beverages to produce.

Teardown of the iPhone 6S with an iFixit engineer

To give you a glimpse of the process, we sent iFixit’s resident video guru—Jairo Valencia—to Melbourne, Australia for the last iPhone release. He followed our teardown engineers as they stripped the hotly-anticipated iPhone 6s and 6s Plus to pieces.

Here’s what it’s like behind the teardown: