· Explainer · 42 sources · opinion
Labs in the UK and Germany, and the makers' own handling guides, say a folding phone's inner screen is soft enough to be marked by a fingernail or a grain of sand. Apple, Samsung and Google's warranties, in every country checked, exclude scratches, cosmetic damage, wear and external causes.
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· Regulation · 38 sources · opinion
From USPS to Australia Post, carriers take phone battery cells up to 20 Wh, and Apple says the iPhone 18 Pro Max's is bigger. Its Prepare to Ship setting drains the phone below the line, but Apple names no rule it relies on, and the air-safety regulators are about to debate limits like this one.
· Analysis · 14 sources · opinion
Apple is challenging a UK government demand over encrypted iCloud backups at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Apple's own documentation shows Activation Lock, which governs whether a salvaged iPhone part will calibrate, sits outside that dispute entirely.
· Statute · 6 sources
Colorado's right-to-repair obligations reach devices first sold from July 2021. The parts-pairing ban inside the same act reaches only devices first sold after January 2026, and the statute says two things its own summary leaves out.
· Statute · 9 sources
Four write-ups of Oregon's repair act mostly got the dates right. Only one of the four carried both of the things that matter: the prohibition has bound manufacturers since January 2025, and the act's own enforcement section does not reach violations until July 2027.
· Directive · 12 sources · opinion
Four professional summaries of the EU repair directive disagree about how long a manufacturer must supply spare parts. The figure most often quoted is real, but it belongs to a different regulation, and it is described in a way that shortens it.