On November 17, Apple officially announced the launch of the self-help maintenance plan, which will open to individual users the sale of original parts and maintenance tools of Apple products and provide maintenance manuals to facilitate users' self maintenance. This self-help maintenance plan will be launched in the United States at the beginning of 2022, and will be extended to other countries in 2022 or later.

According to the plan, iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 series models will first join the plan, followed by Macs equipped with M1 chips.

The parts sold to users at the initial stage will focus on the parts that most often need maintenance services, such as the iPhone screen, battery and camera. Other parts will be opened later.

In the future, Apple will launch an online self-help repair shop, providing more than 200 independent parts and tools for ordering; If you choose to hand over the replaced parts to Apple for recycling, you will be able to get a discount when you purchase products later.

Of course, the official also said that the self-help maintenance plan is mainly applicable to "technicians with electronic equipment maintenance knowledge and experience". For most users, the safest and most reliable way is still to send the equipment to a professional maintenance service provider.

Some analysts pointed out that Apple's launch of the self-help maintenance plan at this time was related to the policy statement of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against illegal maintenance restrictions a few months ago.

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