Apple may be loosening third-party repair restrictions


Motherboard:

According to the presentation, titled "Apple Genuine Parts Repair" and dated April 2018, the company has begun to give some repair companies access to Apple diagnostic software, a wide variety of genuine Apple repair parts, repair training, and notably places no restrictions on the types of repairs that independent companies are allowed to do. The presentation notes that repair companies can "keep doing what you’re doing, with … Apple genuine parts, reliable parts supply, and Apple process and training."

This is, broadly speaking, what right to repair activists have been asking state legislators to require companies to offer for years.

There's a good chance Apple is working to get ahead of various right to repair legislative efforts in different states. Either to prepare to accommodate new legal requirements or to stave off bills.

This seems to help major third-party repair, but still leaves individuals without solutions to repair their own products.