iPhone SE (3rd generation) Speaker

Before You Begin

Warning

Read Battery Safety and follow workspace and battery handling guidelines before you begin.

Remove the following parts before you begin:

Tools

  • ESD-safe tweezers

  • JCIS bit

  • Micro stix bit

  • Nylon probe (black stick)

  • Super screw bit

  • Torque driver (green, 0.45 kgf cm)

Removal

  1. Use a torque driver and the JCIS bit to remove two crosshead screws from the speaker. Set aside the screws.

  2. Use a torque driver and the super screw bit to remove the super screw from the speaker. Set aside the screw.

  3. Gently insert the black stick under the lower right corner of the logic board (1). Lift the logic board just enough to slide the speaker under it and release the speaker from the speaker port (2). Lift the speaker out of the enclosure.

    • Caution: Don’t bend the logic board or lift it more than necessary to make room for the top of the speaker.

    • Caution: At the top left corner of the speaker is a tab that slides between the logic board and the enclosure. Remove the speaker gently to avoid breaking the tab or bending the logic board.

Reassembly

  1. Complete Taptic Engine  reassembly steps 1 through 4 to partially reinstall the Taptic Engine .

  2. Use the black stick to gently move the Taptic Engine /dock connector back and forth to ensure that it’s attached to the coaxial connector on the enclosure.

  3. Use the black stick to ensure that the Taptic Engine /dock connector is parallel to the right side of the enclosure.

    • Caution

      • When you reinstall the speaker, ensure that the tab on the speaker goes under the logic board and above the screw hole.

      • Reinstall the speaker gently to avoid breaking the tab or bending the logic board.

  4. Insert the black stick under the lower right corner of the logic board. Tilt the top of the speaker down and slide it slightly under the logic board (1). Lay the bottom of the speaker in the enclosure. Then slide the bottom of the speaker into the speaker port (2).

  5. Use the green torque driver and super screw bit to install one new super screw (923- 04084) into the speaker.

  6. Use the green torque driver and JCIS bit to install two new crosshead screws (923-04085) (1) (923- 04083) (2) into the speaker.

  7. Inspect the Taptic Engine /dock connector to ensure that it’s attached to the coaxial connector on the enclosure.

  8. Press the end of the Taptic Engine  flex cable to the Taptic Engine /dock connector.

  9. Adhere the end of the lower antenna flex cable to the top of the Taptic Engine  flex cable.

  10. Press the lower end of the Wi-Fi antenna to the top of the lower antenna flex cable (1). Press the upper end of the Wi-Fi antenna to the upper connector (2).

  11. Complete Taptic Engine  reassembly steps 10 through 12 to reinstall the Taptic Engine  connector cowling.

Reinstall the following part to complete reassembly:

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