- iFixit gives the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 a pitiful repair score in its latest teardown.
- Fragile inner components, glued batteries, and a hard-to-replace screen make DIY fixes tough.
- It could be that the same design choices may help the phone survive extreme durability tests.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 impressed last week in JerryRigEverything’s notorious bend test, which is just as well. According to iFixit, if anything does go wrong, actually repairing the device is a different kind of endurance test.
In a new teardown video, iFixit gives the Fold 7 a repairability score of just three out of ten, calling it fragile and a “repair nightmare.” The team does praise Samsung’s hardware engineering in some places — like the easily replaceable USB-C port — but says frustrating adhesives, ultra-thin batteries, and a highly delicate inner screen make most common repairs both difficult and prohibitively expensive.
