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How to Repair Your iPhone Backlight

Alice MJ

Aug 31, 2023 • Filed to: Mobile Repair Solutions • Proven solutions

Although it is a very rare occurrence, there are some people who have reported problems with their iPhone backlight. We say it is rare because most of these reports begin with, "I dropped my iPhone." The problem rarely occurs on a perfectly good iPhone. This doesn't mean that there aren't people who have reported broken Backlights on perfectly good iPhones. The question still remains what to do when you find that your backlight is not working correctly.

The first step is to figure out why. If the cause of the problem is due to some form of breakage, you may need to have the backlight fixed manually. This means, that if you noticed the problem soon after the phone was dropped or hit with something, the problem is purely a hardware problem that can be fixed. On the other hand, your iPhone's backlight may just stop working without any form of "hardware trauma" to it. While this is often rare it does happen and it can often mean that you are dealing with a software problem. In this case, you may need some troubleshooting suggestions. In very rare cases you may even need to get your phone replaces under your warranty agreement.

How to Check the Backlight for damage

First of all the biggest indicator that you have a problem is when your iPhone's backlight simply will not work. This is the major indicator although sometimes, your backlight could be broken and not exhibit this "symptom." So what are the other symptoms to keep an eye to for to assess the damage to your backlight? Here are a few symptoms to watch out for;

• Sometimes your backlight can be so low that you can only see the screen if you hold it in direct light. This is a clear indication that your backlight is damaged

• Your first instinct would be to check the settings. If you adjust your settings and your backlight still isn't bright enough, then you have a problem.

• If the backlight works sometimes and then sometimes it is completely out, you have a problem that needs to be addressed

• If you have tried every troubleshooting technique in the book and your screen is still dark, you need help.

You need a permanent solution to the problem. This means you either need to fix the broken backlight on your own or you need to pay someone to do it for you.

Method 1. Repairing your Broken Backlight (Hardware issue)

It is not entirely impossible to fix your broken backlight by yourself. In fact you can do very easily following the simple steps below.

1. The first step is to ensure that your iPhone is powered off before disassembling it. Remember to backup your iPhone data since the repairing prcess may cause data loss! And you can also try to recover data from broken iPhone.

2. Push the rear panel of the phone to the top edge of the phone to remove it

3. You then need to remove the screw that secures the battery connector to the logic board. Some iPhone models have more than one screw. If this is case remove the screws

4. Pry the Battery Connector up from its socket on the logic board using a plastic opening tool

5. Then gently lift the battery from the phone

6. The next step is to eject the sim card from its holder. This may require a little bit of force

7. Pry the lower antenna connector off the logic board

8. You can now remove the screw connecting the bottom of the logic board to the inner case

9. The next step is to remove the screws that connect the Wi-Fi antenna to the logic board and lift it carefully from the board

10. You should then carefully lift the rear camera connector from the board

11. You also need to lift the digitizer cable, LCD Cable, Headphone jack, Top Microphone and Front Camera cable.

12. The you remove the logic board from the iPhone

13. Remove the speaker from the phone and then the two screws holding the vibrator to the inner frame

14. Then remove the screws on the button side (edge) of the iPhone

15. Remove the screws along the sim card side

16. Once all the screws have been removed, lift the top edge of the front panel assembly

17. Remove the display from the screen

18. You should be able to see the extent of the damage on the plastic part which is causing you have a dim or nonexistent backlight.

19. You can now simply replace it with a new one and re-assemble your phone

See, you can easily follow the above steps to get your backlight back on. But only do this if you are sure that the problem is hardware related.

Method 2: How to Repair iPhone Backlight (System issue)

If the above solution doesn't work for you. Then the backligh issue is system or software related. You can fix it with Dr.Fone - System Repair. It can help you fix various software and system issues without data loss. You may don't know that Dr.Fone has been universally hailed as one of the most reliable software in the market, and even Forbes Magazine has highly commended Wondershare, the parent company which has created Dr.Fone.

Dr.Fone - System Repair

Fix iPhone system error without data loss.

Only fix your iOS to normal, no data loss at all.
Fix various iOS system issues stuck in recovery mode, white Apple logo, black screen, looping on start, etc.
Fixes other iPhone error and iTunes errors, such as iTunes error 4013, error 14, iTunes error 27,iTunes error 9 and more.
Works for all models of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Fully compatible with the latest iOS 13.