Very likely can be fixed. Tons of independent repair shops who will do it as long as Apple hasn’t blocked inbound shipments of parts needed.
Jessa at iPad Rehab does videos and really knows her ****. Have been thinking about mailing one of mine to her. She’s been a right-to-repair activist for years and deserves the business.
https://www.ipadrehab.com/
Plus like most independent repair businesses working on Fruit products, she’ll actually offer data recovery when needed. Unlike the Fruit billionaires. They can’t be bothered with such simple tech workbench activities.
Jessa is like the iPhone and iPad twin sister to Louis Rossmann and MacBooks. I’d trust either one with any repairs needed that Apple will never offer.
One tip. Still always go ask the Apple Store what they’ll do. Especially if you have a proper backup at home or a half assed one in iCloud and can lose all App data.
They make their recalls incredibly hard to research and never contact you to say your device is under one — unless it’s likely to catch on fire — and I’ve had two devices replaced free under unpublished or hard to find recalls.
The replacements are refurbs with nearly no warranty, but hey, it’s free.
Downside: Getting an Apple store appointment around the holidays. And you’ll likely still wait an extra hour. But pretend it doesn’t bother you and be nice and the Genius may reward you by magically finding a defect caused by a recall.
One phone got replaced for free that had a screen failure, not for the screen failure but for a tiny chip next to the lightning connector. “Genius” said that was a recalled defect and handed me a refurb.
If you end up using Jessa let me know how it goes. I have one iPad that clearly ate its own lithium battery alive. No desire to give the Fruit Billionaires any more money, but also not using it much, so it’s been a tossup. Not whether Jessa deserves the business but whether I actually need the thing.
Oh. I also always look at iFixit to get a feel for difficulty level and parts pricing and availability too. Great site and great right-to-repair advocates, also. Everything Fruity has full tear down and repair instructions there. Apple has tried to sue them out of existence more than once.
