The device-repair YouTuber Hugh Jeffreys posted a video establishing the issues that arise when he simulated replacing the display, cameras or both in an iPhone 12-series device. To recap, this activity triggered software locks that caused various core iOS 14 features, Battery Health, Face ID and TrueTone included, to stop working, essentially rendering repairs of these devices by anyone but an Apple authorized technician pretty much impossible.

Now that the 12 series’ replacements have been released, Jeffreys set out to replicate his experiment with one of them: the 13 Pro. This protocol involves buying 2 brand-new units of this variant, opening them and switching their logic boards to approximate a component replacement. This was shown to result in even more severe issues compared to the previous video, if anything