**A DIY Guide to Replacing an iPhone's Glass Back**

Replacing an iPhone's glass back can seem like a daunting task, but with the right tools and a bit of patience, it can be done. In this article, we will walk you through the process of removing the glass back from your iPhone and replacing it with a new one.

**The Process Begins**

To start, you'll need to gather a few tools, including a Pentalobe screwdriver, a Phillips screwdriver, and some spudgers. You'll also need to remove the SIM card tray and any other attachments that may be holding the glass back in place. Once you've removed these attachments, you can start prying the glass back off of the iPhone.

As you begin to pry the glass back, you'll notice that it's quite stubborn at first. But with a bit of effort, you should be able to loosen it and remove it entirely. Be careful not to apply too much pressure, as this can cause the glass to shatter or break further.

**The Fine Points**

Now that you've removed the majority of the glass, you'll need to focus on removing any fine points that are left behind. These can be tricky to get out, but with a bit of patience and some careful manipulation, you should be able to remove them all. The residue they leave behind is mostly the culprit for sticking things together, so it's worth taking the time to clean this area thoroughly.

**Removing the Camera**

One of the most difficult parts of the process is removing the camera from its housing. This requires a bit of care and attention to detail, as you'll need to pry the camera apart without damaging the surrounding glass or metal. Take your time and work carefully around the edges of the camera to avoid any damage.

**The Final Steps**

Once you've removed the camera and the fine points, you can start applying the new glass back. This is where things can get a bit tricky, as you'll need to ensure that the glass is properly aligned with the metal housing. Take your time and make sure everything is secure before moving on to the next step.

**Sealing the Deal**

Finally, it's time to seal the deal by applying a clear coat of adhesive to the new glass back. This will help protect it from scratches and damage, and give it a smooth, seamless finish. Make sure to apply enough adhesive to cover the entire surface of the glass, but avoid over-applyin g it.

**The Finished Product**

And that's it! With these steps, you should be able to replace your iPhone's glass back with ease. The finished product is truly beautiful, and a great alternative to purchasing a new phone. Just remember to take your time and be careful when handling the glass, as it can be prone to scratches and damage.

**A Word of Caution**

Before attempting this DIY project, make sure you're aware of the risks involved. Replacing the glass back can void your warranty, and may not provide the same level of water resistance as the original phone. However, for those who are willing to take on the challenge, it's definitely a rewarding experience.

**A Unique Touch**

To give your new iPhone a unique touch, you could consider applying some custom wallpapers or decals. There are many resources available online that offer x-ray versions of internal iPhone components, such as the l-shaped battery. These can be applied using a specialized tool, and create a truly one-of-a-kind look.

**Testing the Wireless Charger**

Finally, it's time to test your new iPhone's wireless charging capabilities. This is a great way to ensure that everything has been properly installed and functioning correctly. By testing the charger and the phone together, you can be confident that your DIY repair was successful.

**Conclusion**

Replacing an iPhone's glass back may seem like a daunting task, but with the right tools and a bit of patience, it can be done. The finished product is truly beautiful, and a great alternative to purchasing a new phone. So if you're feeling adventurous and want to give this DIY project a try, just remember to take your time and be careful when handling the glass.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit what's up guys another year another big project to take on the iPhone at 10s deserves the same treatment has the iPhone 10 and eight did last year with the clear glass at back mod so the interior is gonna look a little bit different this year Apple redid it a little bit new SIM card tray the orientation and I wanted to go ahead and get a peek at that beautiful interior get closer to that Apple a12 chip on the iPhone 10s so in order to do this mod first off we do have to take off the glass which in itself is a struggle and I know literally almost nobody my viewers are going to be doing this but I still want to show you guys just how awesome it is and the final result does look pretty dang cool and of course the more careful you are the better and result so last year on the f18 wasn't the cleanest but that still looks pretty dang cool I did manage to ruin the wireless charging though on the iPhone at 10s a little bit better and hopefully even better on this guy so I'm gonna be taking off his glass then the camera that's scraping off this entire thing and for the people that do want to do this I'll show you guys how to it's a it's quite a struggle but shouldn't be any more difficult than last year's anyways so I just so you guys can see the only reason I'm even getting under here very quickly is because I already pried it and broke the seal or the antenna band here and I can get my fingernail underneath here or any of my tools and start prying so I do have my scrapers really sharp carbide blades the sharper the better because man Apple has some sort of application process that bonds to glass so insanely great and this is gonna be ashamed because I'm getting rid of the gold color but I still want to see what it'll look like on my exacto knives more razors spare racers and let's start with the priors we'll be using these little picks these do wonders for the back here and of course some gloves so you don't end up scratching yourself but before that's we do need a warm it up a little so heat really doesn't do much here but it does help a little bit if you were to put some rubbing alcohol and would weaken the bond which would have been better there hey at least this so we're gonna go around the edges and where we're gonna start scraping that's where you want to heat it your little pick can get in under there that you want to apply good amounts to till it almost hurts then with the pic go in but if you didn't already have an entry point man to get one is not the easiest as you can see oh nice well there goes that video damn that was a lot less durable than I thought man all right this just went from a tutorial to I'm just gonna show you what it looks like regardless because I suck at my own advice first up this should be off and same-same we're just gonna pry the glass off now and if you have broken the back you can use this as a guide to replace it I guess seems like there's less adhesive on the back now I mean on the old one Apple applied it heavily all over the frame as you can see on the 8 here I'm not seeing as much here yeah it's much easier placed on there wow this glass is so much more brittle than I thought that's so sad by the way something about you guys didn't know and I just totally took off the top layer this wireless charger is that on this charger the reason it charges faster it charges by about thirty minutes faster over the last year's iPhone 10 is because this coil is comprised entirely of copper and that's much more efficient than the previous material they were using which is a combination of several materials and that's why you get faster charging not because of any other reason so we're just gonna break it apart piece by piece I'm lucky that it's easy to get in under there I was really hoping I could have saved it and scraped it but I guess got to work with what happens alright in progress this is much easier than last year's version surprisingly that looks freaking cool Wow so I'll use the glass from the existing ten just put it on there but that looks so so good it would have been nice to have the matching gold texts it'll be just silver on this one Wow you know break the glass and reveal a work of art underneath I love that about Apple as that no matter what part of the phone you're looking at everything is so clean and orderly always looks nice that's like Apple's design mantras clean sweep everywhere right pretty much got most of it off here and it's looking pretty good ah you're on it's like waking up during anesthesia off you go and get my bare filming back in the days and have to hold our breath from all the fumes I don't know we did a lot where the batteries exploded all right so most of the difficult part has been done well has they say that because there's a lot of really hard stuff left around the side but the biggest chunk of the glass is gone now we got to deal with the edges and this is where more of the fine points come in so it's gonna scrape these individually big pain in the ass so it does take a while you wanna make sure you're doing a good job cleaning all the residue out you can definitely see why Apple would charge almost an entire iPhone replacement if the back breaks you have to replace the entire housing one does not just simply replace the glass here it is an entire process the residue they use that's mostly the culprit here I mean if this thing that broke and you could just peel it off normally and buy a new one that would be very easy they use some hard core glues here okay so all clean except for the camera now I'm gonna try and remove all the glass from it first some tough stuff seriously I'm gonna cracked really easily but the actual glass you can tell is quite tough so the last bit and then we'll try and pry the camera apart all right so be quite gentle going around the camera you'll start to notice a crevasse between the metal shell and the actual lens and that's what we're gonna pry it apart still got some more glass to get rid of and this is like the toughest part the entire back glass here is really really glued down damn did you see the sparks start a fire do not do this near any hazardous or flammable materials I keep getting sparks everywhere okay so everything is off at this point now remove this camera there are little metal TIG welds I guess you could say tiny little welds holding them together with the frame you have to sever those okay there we go ah no it is the same actually this is I'm gonna start from the top as you can see those little little tiny metal dots and it comes off perfect so we have completed the first parts now if you had done this correctly you would have had a whole glass back or if you broke yours you can get a new back and just scrape it off by yourself or you know maybe you don't want to do that at all just want to replace it so there we have that I probably wouldn't recommend anybody do this chances of you having all 100% functional phone after this aren't that great but hey all right so let's apply heavy glass it actually fits really nicely typically reinstall this with some glue mine is broken so I should probably think about replacing that but I actually like this so much more than I thought I would the copper coil matches with the lens and with the border it's a beautiful beautiful look wow that works so honestly it would be nice for after the release a transparent addition as so many manufacturers are such as HTC and Xiaomi all right so here is the finished product guys that actually looks great much better than I thought now I didn't seal this onto here but pretty easy to do with just a seal going around it again I think that the matching colors with the copper and the gold dish tone on these sides looks amazing and had I been a little bit more careful would be a very very nice touch so I think it's a pretty decent alternative to a colored back but then again I don't see many people doing this you do lose your warranty you lose your water resistance but does it look great yeah I mean I would say so anyways I would rock it had I been able to keep the water resistant so the best way to enjoy this clear look I think is to combine it with iFixit snoo teardown wallpapers so they actually have an x-ray version on the inside of the iPhone 10 s and then they have a new internal one that actually shows the new l-shaped battery so it's now fused instead of two different cells really really nice apples reworked it a little bit looks cool some that in combination with this wallpaper you really do get a totally clear - look here and it is awesome so let me know what you guys think all one percent of you weight one percent of one percent it'll be trying it or absolutely nobody have it once and I hope you guys enjoyed it so definitely wish you wouldn't want a little bit better and I could have preserved the gold lettering but all in all managed to salvage it and it looks pretty nice one thing I wanted to do is to test the wireless charging I hope that I didn't destroy it at my wireless charger I'm gonna test the working one alright that does work and let's hopefully oh yeah okay it's all good I didn't completely destroy it so there was a black covering on it but I guess it's not needed since there is another clear one on top of the coil less resistance in the way of the wireless charger I guess so yeah they're just guys hope you guys enjoyed this video worked hard for it I think it turned out absolutely sweet peaceit what's up guys another year another big project to take on the iPhone at 10s deserves the same treatment has the iPhone 10 and eight did last year with the clear glass at back mod so the interior is gonna look a little bit different this year Apple redid it a little bit new SIM card tray the orientation and I wanted to go ahead and get a peek at that beautiful interior get closer to that Apple a12 chip on the iPhone 10s so in order to do this mod first off we do have to take off the glass which in itself is a struggle and I know literally almost nobody my viewers are going to be doing this but I still want to show you guys just how awesome it is and the final result does look pretty dang cool and of course the more careful you are the better and result so last year on the f18 wasn't the cleanest but that still looks pretty dang cool I did manage to ruin the wireless charging though on the iPhone at 10s a little bit better and hopefully even better on this guy so I'm gonna be taking off his glass then the camera that's scraping off this entire thing and for the people that do want to do this I'll show you guys how to it's a it's quite a struggle but shouldn't be any more difficult than last year's anyways so I just so you guys can see the only reason I'm even getting under here very quickly is because I already pried it and broke the seal or the antenna band here and I can get my fingernail underneath here or any of my tools and start prying so I do have my scrapers really sharp carbide blades the sharper the better because man Apple has some sort of application process that bonds to glass so insanely great and this is gonna be ashamed because I'm getting rid of the gold color but I still want to see what it'll look like on my exacto knives more razors spare racers and let's start with the priors we'll be using these little picks these do wonders for the back here and of course some gloves so you don't end up scratching yourself but before that's we do need a warm it up a little so heat really doesn't do much here but it does help a little bit if you were to put some rubbing alcohol and would weaken the bond which would have been better there hey at least this so we're gonna go around the edges and where we're gonna start scraping that's where you want to heat it your little pick can get in under there that you want to apply good amounts to till it almost hurts then with the pic go in but if you didn't already have an entry point man to get one is not the easiest as you can see oh nice well there goes that video damn that was a lot less durable than I thought man all right this just went from a tutorial to I'm just gonna show you what it looks like regardless because I suck at my own advice first up this should be off and same-same we're just gonna pry the glass off now and if you have broken the back you can use this as a guide to replace it I guess seems like there's less adhesive on the back now I mean on the old one Apple applied it heavily all over the frame as you can see on the 8 here I'm not seeing as much here yeah it's much easier placed on there wow this glass is so much more brittle than I thought that's so sad by the way something about you guys didn't know and I just totally took off the top layer this wireless charger is that on this charger the reason it charges faster it charges by about thirty minutes faster over the last year's iPhone 10 is because this coil is comprised entirely of copper and that's much more efficient than the previous material they were using which is a combination of several materials and that's why you get faster charging not because of any other reason so we're just gonna break it apart piece by piece I'm lucky that it's easy to get in under there I was really hoping I could have saved it and scraped it but I guess got to work with what happens alright in progress this is much easier than last year's version surprisingly that looks freaking cool Wow so I'll use the glass from the existing ten just put it on there but that looks so so good it would have been nice to have the matching gold texts it'll be just silver on this one Wow you know break the glass and reveal a work of art underneath I love that about Apple as that no matter what part of the phone you're looking at everything is so clean and orderly always looks nice that's like Apple's design mantras clean sweep everywhere right pretty much got most of it off here and it's looking pretty good ah you're on it's like waking up during anesthesia off you go and get my bare filming back in the days and have to hold our breath from all the fumes I don't know we did a lot where the batteries exploded all right so most of the difficult part has been done well has they say that because there's a lot of really hard stuff left around the side but the biggest chunk of the glass is gone now we got to deal with the edges and this is where more of the fine points come in so it's gonna scrape these individually big pain in the ass so it does take a while you wanna make sure you're doing a good job cleaning all the residue out you can definitely see why Apple would charge almost an entire iPhone replacement if the back breaks you have to replace the entire housing one does not just simply replace the glass here it is an entire process the residue they use that's mostly the culprit here I mean if this thing that broke and you could just peel it off normally and buy a new one that would be very easy they use some hard core glues here okay so all clean except for the camera now I'm gonna try and remove all the glass from it first some tough stuff seriously I'm gonna cracked really easily but the actual glass you can tell is quite tough so the last bit and then we'll try and pry the camera apart all right so be quite gentle going around the camera you'll start to notice a crevasse between the metal shell and the actual lens and that's what we're gonna pry it apart still got some more glass to get rid of and this is like the toughest part the entire back glass here is really really glued down damn did you see the sparks start a fire do not do this near any hazardous or flammable materials I keep getting sparks everywhere okay so everything is off at this point now remove this camera there are little metal TIG welds I guess you could say tiny little welds holding them together with the frame you have to sever those okay there we go ah no it is the same actually this is I'm gonna start from the top as you can see those little little tiny metal dots and it comes off perfect so we have completed the first parts now if you had done this correctly you would have had a whole glass back or if you broke yours you can get a new back and just scrape it off by yourself or you know maybe you don't want to do that at all just want to replace it so there we have that I probably wouldn't recommend anybody do this chances of you having all 100% functional phone after this aren't that great but hey all right so let's apply heavy glass it actually fits really nicely typically reinstall this with some glue mine is broken so I should probably think about replacing that but I actually like this so much more than I thought I would the copper coil matches with the lens and with the border it's a beautiful beautiful look wow that works so honestly it would be nice for after the release a transparent addition as so many manufacturers are such as HTC and Xiaomi all right so here is the finished product guys that actually looks great much better than I thought now I didn't seal this onto here but pretty easy to do with just a seal going around it again I think that the matching colors with the copper and the gold dish tone on these sides looks amazing and had I been a little bit more careful would be a very very nice touch so I think it's a pretty decent alternative to a colored back but then again I don't see many people doing this you do lose your warranty you lose your water resistance but does it look great yeah I mean I would say so anyways I would rock it had I been able to keep the water resistant so the best way to enjoy this clear look I think is to combine it with iFixit snoo teardown wallpapers so they actually have an x-ray version on the inside of the iPhone 10 s and then they have a new internal one that actually shows the new l-shaped battery so it's now fused instead of two different cells really really nice apples reworked it a little bit looks cool some that in combination with this wallpaper you really do get a totally clear - look here and it is awesome so let me know what you guys think all one percent of you weight one percent of one percent it'll be trying it or absolutely nobody have it once and I hope you guys enjoyed it so definitely wish you wouldn't want a little bit better and I could have preserved the gold lettering but all in all managed to salvage it and it looks pretty nice one thing I wanted to do is to test the wireless charging I hope that I didn't destroy it at my wireless charger I'm gonna test the working one alright that does work and let's hopefully oh yeah okay it's all good I didn't completely destroy it so there was a black covering on it but I guess it's not needed since there is another clear one on top of the coil less resistance in the way of the wireless charger I guess so yeah they're just guys hope you guys enjoyed this video worked hard for it I think it turned out absolutely sweet peace\n"