I just went to the Apple store and I couldn’t find any spare parts for my phone only brand new phones. At the fairphone website they offered every spare part po

I just went to the Apple store and I couldn’t find any spare parts for my phone only brand new phones. At the fairphone website they offered every spare part possible for sale. So for iPhones you have to get motherboards from unauthorized sellers from places like aliexpress or buy a parts phone off eBay. So yes you can basically replace every part of an iPhone but it is not as simple as asking Apple for the part. Also with Apple they actually lock some functions to parts so if that part breaks you are screwed without apples permission so yourbonly choice would be go to their shop for repair. I’m talking about for example the fingerprint scanner. And I know apple does that for security reasons but as someone who unknowing bought a used iPhone that had the home button replaced and fingerprint scanner didn’t work it would have been nice to replace that button to one that works and let me decide if the security risk is worth using an aftermarket home button. To me the difference seems huge. Apple really doesn’t want you fixing your phone if they could add self destruct when you opened it and get away with it they would.