Apple’s DIY repair program now covers iPads

Apple is expanding its self-service repair programme to screen a scope of iPads, including mini, Air, and Pro models. The programme opens tomorrow, astatine which constituent you’ll beryllium capable to bid spare parts and repair kits for the Apple tablets.

The program is mostly constricted to the iPad models that Apple presently sells, including the A16-powered iPad, the iPad mini moving the A17 Pro, and the M4-based iPad Pro. The M2 iPad Air is the lone older exemplary supported, on with the existent M3 versions of that tablet. 

Apple hasn’t yet announced prices for the repair kits and components, which volition see displays, batteries, cameras, and charging ports, on with rentable instrumentality kits to transportation retired the work. iPhone parts scope from $69 to $119 for a battery, portion displays outgo $129 to $379, and iPad parts are apt to outgo more.

The Self Service Repair programme launched successful 2022, initially covering lone iPhones, though has since expanded to see prime Macs, MacBooks, and the Studio Display. Apple has besides announced contiguous that the work volition grow to screen Canada this summer, and that MobileSentrix volition beryllium added arsenic a US parts distributor successful the US arsenic portion of the precocious launched Genuine Parts Distributor program, which allows third-party sellers to connection authoritative Apple parts to autarkic repair shops.