Name: Glass Only Apple Watch 4 Screen Fix - NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T05:05:45.000Z
Duration: 11 min 45 s
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So the Series 4 Apple Watch with its rectangular design and curved glass edges, looks pretty

sleep and pristine unless, of course, it's shattered.

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Replacement screens can cost almost as much as the watch itself unfortunately.

But what if replacing just the top glass were an option?

Today I'll show you that replacing just the glass is indeed an option...while at the same

time showing you why this repair should never be attempted by mere mortals.

Personally, I've tried multiple glass-only Apple watch repairs before this one, each

This time around I'll have some extra help from a guy who does this on a regular basis.

He's found a way to make these impossible repairs possible.

But still, without experience, I'd say about 99% of people who attempt this project will

Now that the pep talk is over, let's get started.

Removing just the glass on a smart watch or cell phone is like trying to separate two

potato chips that are glued together without cracking either one of them.

The concept of course is simple, but the execution is near impossible.

It's the brain surgery equivalent of smart phone repairs.

The initial trick is that the glass curved edge of the Apple Watch Series 4 does not

have any part of the display panel underneath it, nor does it have the finger sensing digitizer

It does however have a super fragile square ring around the bottom edge of the glass that

rests up against the metal for the Force Touch feature which is kind of essential to the

I'll show you what that looks like in just a second.

This is going to be one of those videos you got to watch all the way through till the

I'm not going to use any heat yet because heat can damage the Force Touch ring by causing

So I'm gently pulling away the tiny cold glass shards with my fine tip tweezers.

But remember we are working around layers of technology that are more fragile than potato

Once we have these smallest glass chips pulled away from the frame, we can slide a super

thin piece of stiff plastic between the glass screen and the Force Touch ring, taking special

care not to damage the fragile ring while sawing my plastic back and forth to help it

slip under the glass and slice through the adhesive that's holding it to the black Force

Pulling up a sliver of glass at the wrong angle can put pressure on the display that's

It's like trying to diffuse a bomb that could obliterate the watch at any second.

Also keep in mind that holding down the side button for too long literally calls the police.

Obviously, the more cracked the glass is, the easier it is to work on because tiny slivers

If the display ends up breaking with black splotches or the touch sensitivity stops working,

the only option at that point is to replace the whole screen instead of just the glass,

which is what we're trying to do here today.

Remember, we still can't use heat yet because of that Force Touch ring – it's still adhered

Every now and then I would run into a snag along the glass edge requiring me to swap

out my piece of plastic or grab my tweezers to shimmy out another piece of glass.

I've been at it for about 45 minutes now, going slow and removing each bit of glass

These watches are expensive, but if I can salvage this screen by replacing just the

I'll add each sliver of glass to my glass collection off to the side until I have another

opening big enough for the thin piece of plastic.

I'll pop it in and start slicing between the glass and the Force Touch ring.

This is a terribly tedious repair that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.

It might be stressing you out a little bit that the watch is still turned on at this

point, but as long as I don't slice my plastic too deep into the watch, the inner cables

should be just fine...nothing's around the edge.

I'm leaving the watch turned on so I can easily test and see if I've broken the internal potato

Once that screen is broken, there's no point in continuing and I'm better off just buying

the whole screen replacement instead of just the glass.

Finally, after removing all the little slivers of glass and slicing my plastic under the

larger chunks of glass, the whole screen is loose from the Apple Watch body.

Everything is indeed still working at this point, which means we haven't messed up yet.

In order to proceed I need something called a vacuum hot plate.

This beauty can suction down objects while heating them up to soften the adhesive.

It's a much more controlled environment than using my standard heat gun.

And since we're working with small and delicate things, it is a needed piece of equipment

I have tapped over all the holes but nine so that we can have all the suction in one

I'll add another piece of tape over the cracked Apple Watch screen so air won't slip through

the cracks and cause it to lose suction...science.

Once the machine is turned on it will start warming up the adhesive that's holding the

You can kind of see them pulling up right here.

There are 3 of them all lined up in a row and this gives us some wiggle room to reach

The adhesive holding down the black tape over top of these connectors is incredibly gooey

and sticky and near impossible to remove gently...Thanks Tim Apple.

Normally alcohol doesn't solve problems, but in this particular case, a drop of alcohol

right on top of each of the connectors dissolves the adhesive, allowing the tape to peel back

It will become sticky again after the alcohol evaporates.

Once the tape is peeled back over all 3 connectors, I can pop the little black latch up at the

top, which unlocks the corresponding cable.

The latches themselves are extremely fragile, just like everything else we've been dealing

Finally I'll grab ahold of the ribbons themselves and the top of the screen, and gently but

firmly pull the ribbons off of the screen.

It's taken me about an hour to get to this point in the process and we haven't even started

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Glass Only Apple Watch 4 Screen Fix - NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE!

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