We've got AirPods, iPads, wallpapers—and even AirPower

We just finished tearing down Apple's latest hardware releases. Here's what we found inside. No Images? Click here The Appleverse is expanding and contracting We’ve got 3 teardowns, a theory for AirPower's cause of death, and 2 new sets of iPad teardown wallpapers to tickle your techno-cosmos fancy. Welcome to the $100/year AirPods Subscription Service Apple’s second generation of AirPods has some cool new features (of course, AirPower isn’t one of them)—but these $200 wireless earbuds remain one of the most disposable products we’ve ever seen. See what it takes to earn a 0/10 on our repairability scale. View the AirPods 2 Teardown     Video: AirPods 2 Teardown Watch us disassemble AirPods 2 with a bench vise and pliers. Plus, learn why AirPods are so hard to recycle. Watch the teardown   Here's what finally killed AirPower Last week, Apple canceled its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging pad. We pored over FCC regulations to find out what happened—and we think we figured it out. Read our post-mortem analysis   The iPad Mini 5 shows not Mini improvements The iPad Mini is back for round 5! Too bad miniaturizing an unrepairable design doesn't make it better. The good news? You can peek inside your new iPad Mini whenever you want with our new teardown wallpapers. See the teardown Download the wallpapers   Which one is the iPad Air 3 again? We rounded out our Apple teardown marathon by taking apart the iPad Air 3. Spoiler alert: it's basically an iPad Pro 10.5" on the inside, minus the surround sound and camera bump. See the teardown Download the wallpapers   iFixit 1330 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA  Thanks for subscribing to the iFixit Newsletter.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe