Tech Care Association

This week's Tech Repair Tidbits is out. 🔧

Why customers pick "replace" before they ever reach you, and the three fixes that win them back. Plus a $250M Apple settlement your counter should know about, Samsung's hidden patch trap, and Alaska's right to repair bill clearing the Senate.
We've also got two must-reads and a Maine shop that gets the trust-and-convenience formula right

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HERE: https://mailchi.mp/techcareassociation.org/tech-repair-tidbits-2026-04-30-repair-is-climate-action-11045669

Earth Month closes today, and the most important fact about repair is one most consumers have never heard: 94% of the world's rare earth permanent magnets are manufactured in a single country. Every device you keep working is a device that doesn't pull fresh ore from a supply chain we don't fully control.

Repair is climate action. Repair is also supply chain security. Both are true at once.

Read the full piece on WhereToRepair at https://mailchi.mp/techcareassociation.org/tech-repair-tidbits-2026-04-30-repair-is-climate-action

Here's the kind of tips we include in our weekly newsletter: iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / iPhone Air won't power on after a full drain. Try MagSafe before you quote a battery.
Multiple shops are reporting all three 2025 iPhone flagships refusing to boot from wired charging after hitting 0%. The shop-tested workaround: place the device on a MagSafe pad for 10 to 15 minutes. Apple has not acknowledged this yet. Run this triage step before any battery quote. A wrong call here is a $100+ needless replacement on a device that's perfectly fine.