No surprise here, but going by IFixit’s initial writeup and video plus the other teardown videos that have hit YouTube so far, self-repair on the Apple Vision Pro is going to be a problem. IFixit released a provisional repairability score — 4/10 which is definitely on the low side.
The curved design already makes it an uphill battle, plus getting the outer glass off and starting to peel back the layers underneath it required using a heat gun and a prying tool. In the process, iFixit caused the edges of the plastic lamination on the goggles to start to separate. That delamination didn’t happen during Phone Repair Guru’s teardown, though, so it probably depends on exactly how quickly and evenly you can apply the heat.
In iFixit’s YouTube video, Sam Goldheart noted that there are a lot of laminated layers and screwless assemblies before you get to the internals, which are sealed off by four T5 Torx screws. But there are a lot of different screws, brackets, connectors, and pieces of tape once you get inside. The number of different pieces inside the headset is pretty high, leaving any self-repairers with a massive number of tiny objects to keep track of. Throw in how Apple has made it increasingly difficult to repair at home by trying to force the use of official replacement parts, and you get a $3,499 device that’s going to be incredibly tricky to repair.
