Casey Liss

You still can't get at this because this is a different OS running in this secure exclave, which is this other little machine that you can't get to. The secure enclave is obviously where you can put secrets that are hard to get to if you're running on the main CPU SoC. But now we have the secure exclave, which is a whole other chip with a whole other OS. It's even harder to get to.

And I'm sure that's true. But hackers are very devious. So let's see how the next move goes. But anyway, Apple continues to try to make it very difficult. to spy using its products without using the easiest method, which is, of course, social engineering.

And I'm sure that's true. But hackers are very devious. So let's see how the next move goes. But anyway, Apple continues to try to make it very difficult. to spy using its products without using the easiest method, which is, of course, social engineering.

And they demonstrated. So we talked about this, I think, before the event where there was rumors of this happening. And I don't know how I pictured it like working. Maybe like you'd short something out and there'd be a puff of smoke and the battery would come out or it would just pop out or whatever. It is much less dramatic than that, but it is no less cool.

And they demonstrated. So we talked about this, I think, before the event where there was rumors of this happening. And I don't know how I pictured it like working. Maybe like you'd short something out and there'd be a puff of smoke and the battery would come out or it would just pop out or whatever. It is much less dramatic than that, but it is no less cool.

In the iFixit video, they take a little power supply and they hook it up to the battery. There's like a little metal, you know, contact that pops out for you to connect it to. And then you just connect something else to like ground inside the thing.

In the iFixit video, they take a little power supply and they hook it up to the battery. There's like a little metal, you know, contact that pops out for you to connect it to. And then you just connect something else to like ground inside the thing.

And you put some power into it for a few seconds, and it basically chemically changes the adhesive to make it not sticky anymore, and then the battery just comes out. And they explain a little bit how it works. Interestingly, if you reverse the polarity, where you put the plus and the minus on the opposite side, it will make it re-stick. What? But not to the thing.

And you put some power into it for a few seconds, and it basically chemically changes the adhesive to make it not sticky anymore, and then the battery just comes out. And they explain a little bit how it works. Interestingly, if you reverse the polarity, where you put the plus and the minus on the opposite side, it will make it re-stick. What? But not to the thing.

It'll re-stick to the battery, so don't do it that way. So there are still some dangers here. But another interesting thing about how they installed this is...

It'll re-stick to the battery, so don't do it that way. So there are still some dangers here. But another interesting thing about how they installed this is...

Once the battery is out, again, you'll see it in the iFixit video and the blog post that we'll also have in the show notes, inside the case where the battery goes, Apple has essentially carved a U-shaped channel, like intentionally, roughly, like it's scuffed up, like if you use like a... A circular buffer on a car and you did a really bad job and you left swirl marks.

Once the battery is out, again, you'll see it in the iFixit video and the blog post that we'll also have in the show notes, inside the case where the battery goes, Apple has essentially carved a U-shaped channel, like intentionally, roughly, like it's scuffed up, like if you use like a... A circular buffer on a car and you did a really bad job and you left swirl marks.

That's what they did inside the phone. They made this big, long U-shaped channel, which is where the adhesive goes, that's intentionally scuffed up and rough to give lots of like craggly surface for the adhesive to stick to, which is so wild to see inside Apple's cases that are usually so beautifully, perfectly machined and everything's precise. And here's this area that's made intentionally rough.

That's what they did inside the phone. They made this big, long U-shaped channel, which is where the adhesive goes, that's intentionally scuffed up and rough to give lots of like craggly surface for the adhesive to stick to, which is so wild to see inside Apple's cases that are usually so beautifully, perfectly machined and everything's precise. And here's this area that's made intentionally rough.

And the adhesive sits directly down in that. And this process is, you know, the pull tabs are cool. It's like those 3M things, kind of like you pull sideways and big, long, stringy, sticky things comes out and then it comes out. But this is just so much more elegant. You just apply the voltage and then the thing isn't sticky anymore and you lift it out. It's pretty cool.

And the adhesive sits directly down in that. And this process is, you know, the pull tabs are cool. It's like those 3M things, kind of like you pull sideways and big, long, stringy, sticky things comes out and then it comes out. But this is just so much more elegant. You just apply the voltage and then the thing isn't sticky anymore and you lift it out. It's pretty cool.

I think this is only on the 16 and the 16 Plus and not on the Pro. I think the Pro still used the sticky stuff because I saw a teardown of one of those things as well, which is interesting. But yeah, check out the whole iFixit video. They seem to think that the 16 continues to push the frontiers of easy repairability. Again, not the 16 Pro.

I think this is only on the 16 and the 16 Plus and not on the Pro. I think the Pro still used the sticky stuff because I saw a teardown of one of those things as well, which is interesting. But yeah, check out the whole iFixit video. They seem to think that the 16 continues to push the frontiers of easy repairability. Again, not the 16 Pro.

I haven't seen the iFixit teardown of that, but the 16 using the dual-sided design and the battery that's easy to remove and the way they have the parts arranged. Apple is making progress in making these Tiny, very delicate devices that much easier and less error prone to repair.