It’s considerably cheaper to restore the again glass on an iPhone 15 Professional than it was on the iPhone 14 Professional. Apple posted value estimates for its new telephones over the weekend, itemizing a restore value of $169 for the 15 Professional and $199 for the Professional Max to exchange both telephone’s shattered again glass.

That’s as much as a $350 lower from the restore value for final 12 months’s fashions. For the iPhone 14 Professional and 14 Professional Max, Apple charged $499 and $549 for again glass alternative — frankly, outlandish costs that ran dearer than the price of an (admittedly a lot lower-end) new iPhone SE.

Right here’s what the present pricing appears to be like like for these repairs:

These newly decreased costs, first noticed by 9to5Mac, are probably as a result of a significant design change made by Apple: on its latest telephone fashions, the again glass may be eliminated and changed independently of the remainder of the telephone. Earlier fashions extra deeply built-in the again into the physique of the system, making them rather more sophisticated to repair. iFixit referred to as earlier iPhone again glass repairs, “One of the costly and troublesome repairs attainable.”

Apple first made this alteration on the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, and this 12 months, the corporate introduced that it did the identical for the 15 Professional fashions, too. Throughout, it’s nice information for anybody who drops their telephone and is sick of taking a look at a spiderweb of cracks.

The repairs are cheaper, after all, if you happen to pay for Apple’s insurance coverage plan, which prices $199 on the brand new Professional and Professional Max for 2 years of protection, then simply $29 for the again glass restore. However you’ll want to purchase that forward of time.

You possibly can watch iFixit’s breakdown of the brand new restore course of on this video on final 12 months’s iPhone 14: