Close-up video of iPhone 15 components with 7000 times magnification

iFixit used the Olympus DSX1000 digital microscope to examine the iPhone 15's internal components with 7,000x magnification, helping us see the components up close in a way that is normally impossible to see.

iFixit can provide a closer look, even showing individual pixels, of the iPhone's case, adhesive, and display. There are zoomed-in views of everything from the battery connector to the magnets inside the Taptic Engine - a Vibration Motor that recreates the feel of a touch or press, like a trackpad or conventional hard key. .

The images in the video show that the ‌iPhone 15‌ has a design that is largely unchanged compared to the iPhone 14.

iPhone 15's 48MP image sensor (left) and 1640x shot of the 48MP image sensor showing the four-pixel clusters themselves (right).

iFixit also discovered that the iPhone 15 has a larger 48-megapixel camera, not the same 48-megapixel camera found on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. iFixit confirms that the 4-pixel "group" in the ‌iPhone 15‌'s camera is about 22% smaller. This means that the iPhone 15's camera cannot perform as well in low light as the camera in the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max.

Finally, iFixit gave the iPhone 15 a score of 4/10, meaning it's quite difficult to repair, despite Apple's efforts to ease repairability requirements.

Marvin Fry

Update 22 October 2023