Apple will now allow users to carry out Do-It-Yourself (DIY) repairs on certain iPhone and Mac computers.

It starts sometime next year with the new Self Service Repair option, which will roll out in the US and other countries.

It will allow users to access – in other words, buy – genuine parts and tools for iPhone and Mac repairs on the new Apple Self Service Repair Online Store, thereby doing away with the need to go to a service centre.

It makes Apple the first smartphone brand, and indeed a computing device maker, to offer a self-repair option to its consumers. In the first stage of this DIY repair adoption, parts and tools will be available for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 series. That’ll be followed by parts and tools for Mac computing devices, the recent ones powered by the M1 chips, including the new MacBook Pro 14 and the iMac 24-inch.