One of Apple's main headaches with this iPad mini is undoubtedly being the jelly-like screen. This, as many of us already know, is due to the type of LCD panel mounted on these new iPad mini and now the iFixit exploded view is talking about the case. What's more show a video in super slow motion showing this "failure" and comparing the panel with that of an iPad Air.
About the iPad mini repair options they say they are really scarce. Nowadays most of the components are glued and welded due to the size of the components themselves and that shows when we have a problem with the equipment, whether they are from Apple or not. In this case the new iPad mini scores 3 out of 10 in repairability index according to iFixit.
An iFixit video showing above all the gelatinous screen glitch
The video posted by iFixit It is interesting because of the disassembly of the iPad itself and because at the beginning of it they explain in detail the problem of the screen of this small iPad and compare it in super slow motion with the iPad Air of last year.
In this case, in addition to the failure of the screen in iFixit, they say that Apple could have made it somewhat easier to disassemble some components of this new iPad mini, but it seems that they have not wanted. It is difficult to change the battery of the iPad mini, it is difficult to disassemble the USB C port and in general all the internal components. The screen would be "easier" to repair but it is not that they tried too hard to look at these aspects so the score on repair issues is very low.
