Unfasten Battery

Written By: Chayton Ritter

Comments: 4

Difficulty

Difficult

Steps

Time Required

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Introduction

This is a prerequisite-only guide! This guide is part of another procedure and is not meant to be used alone.

This "updated" battery blocking guide exists to still unscrew the battery connector when necessary, but it doesn't have the unreliable card method.

Tools

Step 1

Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the three 1.2 mm screws securing the bottom cable shield to the logic board.

This seems out of order.

isa.stewart -

Not really, 1st step release top ambient light cable , open iPad and remove the 3 screws

Richard UK Apple -

Step 2

Use tweezers or your fingers to remove the bottom cable shield.

Step 3

Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the 1.8 mm screw securing the battery connector to the logic board.

There's a section missing here about inserting the playing cards to remove the connection to the battery. You can see these in the next screen nut it's not mentioned. Other users have reported shorts and damage due to missing this step. I'm not an expert but I noticed this and wanted to mention it.

isa.stewart -

There should be a step added here for isolating the logic board from the battery. Just removing the screw does not do this. In step 31, the picture shows the playing cards used to provide the isolation.

Dools -