在iFixit最近對iPhone12的拆卸中發現，如果使用者更換攝像頭模組，新**會遇到一些問題，如果沒有蘋果授權維修商更換，基本上會導致裝置上的攝像頭無法使用。

iFixit經常公開反對消費電子企業對產品維修的控制，主張對維修權進行政策調整。在其網站最近的一篇帖子中，它質疑iphone12是否是“可修復iPhone的終結”

在本週的科技評論季**播客系列的最後一集中，Vergecast的Dieter Bohn與iFixit的Kyle Wiens和Kay Kay Clapp討論了他們對蘋果最新產品的可修復性的看法，以及對修復權的爭奪，以及它如何操作著名的撕裂。

下面是這段對話的一段經過簡單編輯的摘錄。

It looks like Apple has done something with the camera module specifically, where it makes it harder to replace the camera module. Can you explain what’s going on with this camera module thing?

Kyle Wiens: Sure. So when we do our first teardown, we open it up. We’re looking at, mechanically, how do we get in. The rating we provide is generally based on just how easy it is to open, how can we get to the components.

We did some light compatibility testing where we took two different iPhones, and we swapped the batteries between them to see if they would work. We took [an iPhone 12] battery, put it in an 11 to see if it will work, that kind of thing, just to get a feeling of how they design the phone, what their supply chain is going to look like, but we don’t extensively go and swap every single component.

After we published our teardown, Hugh Jeffreys in Australia, a popular YouTuber, did some more extensive testing, and he started swapping more components. He took the camera out of one iPhone 12, put it in another, and it didn’t work — or it worked but in a very glitchy way. That was sort of eye-opening to us. And then we got leaked a document from Apple’s internal service saying that in order to repair the camera the official way, you have to have Apple software to pair the camera to the phone.

Interesting. So some part of the iPhone — maybe it’s their secure enclave, maybe it’s just like the logic board or something — needs to identify the specific camera part, and Apple needs to approve that pairing through some sort of cloud process in order for the camera to actually work. Is that right?

It’s possible that’s how it works. That’s how the Touch ID sensor works. It’s also possible that there’s just a calibration procedure. There may be a very precise signal timing. So to put the phone into a sort of pairing mode and say, “Hey, listen to the signal timing, and sync up precisely with the camera.”

So it’s the kind of thing that you do at the factory, right? You hook everything up at the factory, and then they’ve got the tooling.

And this is True Tone works. Every LED that you make is going to have slightly different performance characteristics. And so the way that True Tone works is at the factory after they make every screen, they tune it a little bit for that specific phone and then they write that configuration to the phone. And that way, you get more c***istent color. It’s possible they’re doing something like that with the camera.

So there’s nothing wrong with that kind of pairing procedure. The problem is when you have a process like that and then you don’t make that tool available to the owner of the phone, now all of a sudden, we’re in a situation where I’ve got this iPhone 12, we swapped the camera, you can see this one camera is working fine. And then I go in portrait mode and switch to the other camera, it just crashes the whole camera app.

就在我們週五錄製完這一集之後，當被問及相機互換問題時，我們得到了蘋果公司的一份宣告：

“我們致力於為客戶提供更多安全可靠的維修選擇和地點。我們新的獨立維修供應商計劃旨在為各種規模的維修企業提供執行最常見的iPhone維修所需的原裝零件、培訓和工具。這些服務提供商可以使用蘋果和授權服務提供商（AASP）使用的相同工具和維修手冊。”

您可以在這裡或您喜歡的播客播放器中收聽完整的Vergecast討論。