About iTakeApart

See inside before you open it up

iTakeApart is a “before you open it” platform: phones and watches, consoles and controllers, laptops and tablets, home appliances, keyboards, lenses and car jobs, taken apart in interactive 3D, screw by screw and layer by layer, so you know what is inside, where the hidden cables and traps are, what order it comes out in and where it goes wrong, before you pick up a screwdriver.

Why

A repair goes wrong in a second: a pick pushed a few millimetres too deep through a display cable, a long screw driven into a short hole, a battery pried with metal. Photos and videos show one angle at one speed. In 3D you can turn the device round, spread its layers apart, slow a step down and watch each connector come off, as often as you need, and see the classic mistakes play out before you make them.

What each teardown does

Before you open it. Step 0 is an X-ray of the closed device: where a pick must not go and how deep it may go, the cables under each edge, the battery no metal may touch, and every screw as a pin in the colour of its length. Above the player, a scorecard says how hard the job is, how long it takes, what can go wrong, and what it costs to do it yourself or to have a shop do it.
Workbench, Drawing and Transparent views. Watch it on a precision ESD workbench, switch to a clean line drawing, or turn the shells to clear glass to see the boards, cables and screws inside.
Explode. A slider spreads every layer of the device apart, at any moment of any step, so the stacked boards, shields and batteries can be looked at one by one.
Reassemble. One switch reverses the order: the last step first, each played backwards, every screw back from the magnetic tray to its own hole.
The screw tray. Each screw that comes out is laid in its own numbered well with its length printed beside it, the way a repair technician keeps them.
Counters. STEP, SCREWS OUT, RIBBON CABLES and RISK LEVEL say where you are and how careful to be.
Traps to avoid. The risky steps show in red what people really get wrong and what it breaks; then Do it right plays the right way, slowly and up close.
Guided. One step at a time in the drawing, with what each step takes on screen, going on to the next when you are ready.
An address for every step. Each step's address (the guide's, with ?step= and its number) opens the guide at that step, with its written instructions under the player, so you can share exactly the step you are on.
Spot an error? Report it. One button on the player opens an email to us with the exact view you are looking at, so we can see and fix what differs from your device.

How a teardown is made

Each teardown follows how the device really comes apart, from repair guides, service information and teardown videos: the same order, the same screw types and lengths, the same connectors. Where a device is a generic one of our own design, or a size or a figure is our estimate, the page says so. The 3D models, drawings and text are our own.

3D Spatial Reconstruction: Models are engineered from factual hardware measurements to visualize internal layouts, screw lengths, and hidden cable traps before you open your device. Always verify cable routing on your specific hardware revision.

The teardowns so far

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Independence and fair use

iTakeApart is an independent 3D educational and repair platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve, Dyson, Nespresso or any other manufacturer or brand named on this site. Brand and product names are used only to say which device a teardown is for, as nominative fair use. Opening a device may void its warranty, and you work on it at your own risk.