Samsung could also be readying a Self Repair Assistant app

Samsung appears to be engaged on a brand new self-repair app to help prospects seeking to repair their very own units. The firm’s submission on the US Patent and Trademark Office for “Self Repair Assistant” features a blue Samsung-style Android app icon that has a gear and a wrench inside it (via SamMobile).

Samsung’s software describes the Self Repair Assistant as a “computer application software for mobile phones” for self-repair, self-maintenance, and self-installation of units together with smartphones, good watches, pill computer systems, and earbuds. The Trademark Office is at present ready to look at the applying.

From the outline, the app may present customers with restore guides and half info on quite a lot of Samsung Galaxy units. This comes after Samsung introduced its collaboration with iFixit earlier this 12 months, offering the net restore useful resource web site with OEM elements and restore guides. The program at present has a small library of supported merchandise and their elements that went dwell in August, together with the Samsung S21, S21 Plus, S21 Ultra, S20, S20 Plus, S20 Ultra, and Tab S7 Plus.

In March, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens advised The Verge that his firm is working to enhance Samsung’s restore information and DIY elements choices. We reached out once more to see if the collaboration may now embody this app, however Wiens didn’t have something to share in the meanwhile.

Whether this app is a part of a collaboration with iFixit or not (or if it even sees the sunshine of day), it exhibits that tech firms have an rising curiosity in offering prospects with assets to restore their units. Hopefully, it should coincide with the flexibility to do battery swaps as nicely; at present, the one Samsung-sanctioned approach to do that is to switch the entire show and battery meeting, whether or not the display screen is damaged or not. Battery replacements can be vital, particularly since of us have seen Samsung’s cellphone batteries have an annoying tendency to outgrow their Galaxy hosts.