What To Do If You Have Broken Your iPhone

If you possess an iPhone it is difficult to imagine living without it. These devices have become indispensible in merely a few short years. If you were to damage your iPhone so that it did not work any more you may lose contact with your friends and be unable to, play games, retrieve information from the internet, find your way around or utilize the digital camera for photographs and videos not to mention phone calls and SMS.

This state of affairs can come about quite easily, as although the iPhone is well made, it can't withstand being dropped onto hard surfaces or into liquids. If you are distracted it is easy to see the phone slip from you fingers or from a pocket or bag. A common upshot of such a catastrophe is a  broken iPhone screen. Although this is significant damage at least it is clear what the issue is however, with problems like submersion in liquid the damage will need to be investigated.

If you are reading this and haven't damaged your iPhone, it is wise to take measures to protect it before you have an disaster. Although nothing can guarantee 100% protection, placing the phone in a protective case should significantly decrease the risk of serious damage.

In the worst situation you might have to change the iphone nevertheless, most damage is repairable and there's three routes you can take for an iPhone repair:

Send it back to Apple - More often than not this is likely to be via post but if you reside near an Apple store you will be able to take it to them. Likely you will receive the iPhone back in full working order nevertheless the price will be significantly more than going with one of the other routes.

Make use of a 3rd party repair shop - You will discover lots of alternatives with lots of people advertising that they are able to repair iPhones along with other kinds of cell phone. To be safe you need to establish their actual level of experience with iPhones and you might choose to search on-line for suppliers that focus on Apple goods. With careful research you should manage to get a good quality repair done for significantly less than Apple would cost.

Try to fix it yourself - A quick web search will uncover plenty of suppliers of components for the iPhone and instructions for how to mend common problems. There are also plenty of YouTube videos where people explain the procedures. Despite this you nevertheless need to be very positive that you are able to complete the task without causing any further damage, if it goes wrong the hoped for saving will most likely be significantly less than the ultimate repair cost. Even a relatively simple task like replacing an iPhone battery can be risky if you attempt a DIY fix.

On the whole using a third party repairer has to be the right route as DIY fixes are too high a risk for the majority of people. Provided you take care in deciding on the repairer you should get your phone working once more at a fair cost.