I know the feeling, trust me. You pull your iPhone out of your pocket and as you’re bringing it around to look at the text you just got, it slips. Time stops in that brief moment as you bobble the phone and think, for the slightest second, that you’ve got a firm grip and all is well. But the moment is fleeting and before you can celebrate your close call, your iPhone tumbles from your fingers and slams on the concrete.

Of course, before you’re willing to concede the loss, you hold out hope that your phone landed in the same way it has a dozen times before and all you’ve managed to do is scratch the back corner of the phone. But as you pick it up and turn the screen toward you, all hope fades and you see the spider web crack across the front of your iPhone screen.

It’s okay if you cried. Nothing to be ashamed of.

And if you didn’t cry then, you probably did when you called the Apple Store and they told you how much it was going to cost you to fix your broken iPhone screen. Turns out those Mac folks are as good at making money as they are at making technology we can actually fall in love with. Good for them, I say.

But that doesn’t mean we have to buy into it.

Nope, it turns out, there’s a very cheap way to fix your broken iPhone screen and you don’t have to be an Apple Genius to do it.

I’m not going to kid you, though. It’s not as easy as changing the batteries in your TV remote and if you’re absolutely terrified at the thought of opening up that baby and doing a little iPhone repair yourself, you should probably think twice. I’m not saying you should give up on the idea and go throw money at the Apple folks, but you should at least think about it again before jumping.

Step 1 – Deciding which part you need to fix your iPhone:

Naturally, if your iPhone isn’t working at all, you need to bring it into the Apple Store. When you’ve damaged it in such a way that you can’t even get the phone to turn on, you’re not really in the DIY iPhone repair world.

But let’s say you’re iPhone repair issue isn’t quite so severe. Below are some of the more common types of damage:

Cracked iPhone Screen (aka Digitizer, aka Touch Panel)

So you dropped your iPhone and the glass shattered. That sucks eggs (I know, I did the same thing). But your iPhone still turns on and (if you don’t mind running your finger over the cracked glass) actually works normally. That is, the display behind the cracks looks like it always has, and you can press on any icon or move between screens, interact with email or make a phone call. You can interact with your phone in all the regular ways.

Despite how bad that cracked iPhone screen looks, this is actually the best kind of damage. It’s an inexpensive part to replace and a relatively easy repair. Again, not as easy as swapping out batteries in a remote, but absolutely doable, especially with the tips and instructions on replacing a broken iPhone screen available on this site.

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Broken iPhone LCD

You thought you got off scott-free. You dropped your iPhone on the concrete driveway and when you picked it up and turned the screen toward you, it was fully in tact, no shatters or breaks. Phew!

Then you turned it on. And cried.

Here’s the deal, the LCD is the display that is attached to the back of the glass screen (the glass screen is what your finger touches when you are using your iPhone). All the icons and apps, the phone and email screens, all of it is displayed via the LCD. So if you break the LCD, either none of that works, or it still kind of works, but there are parts of the display that are clearly wrong. That is, maybe there are vertical and/or horizontal lines going through the display that don’t go away, or there are sections of the display that are all black, or white, or some other lovely color but, unfortunately, not the color they are supposed to be.

Your phone is likely still fine, that is, the technological brains of the phone are in tact, it just doesn’t have a way to properly display it all anymore.

So a new iPhone LCD is what you need. And though it’s a bit more expensive than a screen replacement, it’s actually an easier repair. You still have to be super careful (something I mention very clearly on the directions page for this part-replacement), but it’s a pretty quick and painless process.

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Step 2 – Learning how to complete your iPhone repair

There are enough videos out there on the interwebs covering the subject of repairing your broken iPhone screen or LCD. Rather than reinvent the wheel here, I’ve decided to compile those I felt did the best job, and add my personal instruction/tips/advice to the mix in an effort to provide the most comprehensive instruction possible. To fill in the gaps that I found in my own experience with these issues, and help ensure you don’t make the same mistakes I did.

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