Apple's newest iPhones have joined the Self Service Repair lineup, letting users order parts and access repair manuals for the full 2025 lineup — including iPhone Air.
Apple has released self-repair manuals and opened parts orders for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air through its Self Service Repair portal. The program is currently available to customers in the US, Canada, the UK, and many European countries.
As of now, you can order parts to repair various parts of the phone. This includes replacement batteries, cameras, glass, microphones, and more.
The repair manuals for all four of the 2025 iPhone lineup are available on the following pages:
Apple launched its Self Service Repair program in April 2022, following pressure from right-to-repair advocates who criticized the company's long-standing insistence on authorized technicians. The move was seen as a calculated step toward broader repair accessibility, but not without controversy.
Since the program's debut, it has continued to draw criticism from right-to-repair advocates and repair organizations. Hardly surprising, since the program was never meant to be a perfect solution to their concerns and has always served as a way to head off right-to-repair and antitrust complaints.
How Apple's self repair program works
In addition to ordering parts and accessing manuals, Apple also allows customers to rent a repair toolkit for seven days for $49. Apple is clear that this store is operated by a third-party provider authorized by Apple to sell genuine parts and tools.
If a part is being ordered from Apple following a user's self-diagnosis, the customer places the order for the parts and tools using a special online store. Consumers will have to return most "core" parts the same as repair shops do, to receive a credit towards the initial part purchase price.
The complexity of repair work, and the high cost of the parts, means that Apple's Self Service Repair program remains not practical for most individuals. As expensive as going to an authorized Apple repairer can be, that will remain the most economic route in terms of cost, time, and mitigating the risk of damaging devices further.
