After ten years of zeros, AirPods 5 finally score on iFixit's scale

A hair dryer and a clamp opened the earbud to reveal a removable battery, though the charging case still put up a fight.

Channel: iFixitStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

We’ve Given AirPods 0/10 for 10 Years. Until Now.

Ten years, then a crack. For a decade iFixit has handed every pair of AirPods a 0 out of 10 for repairability, and the one video of the week is about why that streak ended with the AirPods 5.

The teardown found something the team had not seen in years: a battery that comes out without wrecking the earbud. Getting in took little more than a hair dryer and a clamp, which became a small running joke in the comments. Then came the charging case, and the description admits the celebration stopped there. The final verdict is not a repairable product, just the highest score AirPods have ever earned from iFixit. Along the way the video looks at Apple's H2 chip and the capacitive touch controls, and the top comment politely points out that touch control lives only on one version of the case. Another popular one notes that Apple can now technically call these its most repairable AirPods. Several viewers also brought up the Fairphone earbuds' swappable case battery, which the video shows by way of contrast.

The video passed 690,000 views in four days and carried the channel to roughly twice its usual daily pace. Behind it, the Steam Frame teardown, where Valve's headset earns praise for a quick-release strap and swappable lens stacks, keeps drawing a steady crowd, with the iPhone 18 Pro and its tiny mechanical aperture blades further back.

Among tech channels of similar size, Parker Burton is having the loudest week by far, and Snazzy Labs and MrMobile are also running well above their usual level. iFixit sits comfortably in the middle of that group, on the strength of a single pair of earbuds.

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The videos drawing views on iFixit right now

Steam Frame Teardown: Valve Did This Right440,598 views iPhone 18 Pro Teardown: What Changed Inside?310,081 views

The numbers

Here is how iFixit's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Parker Burton

10,255,993

ETA PRIME

2,788,155

Max Tech

1,749,256

iFixit

1,637,797

Hardware Unboxed

1,433,367

Snazzy Labs

1,422,825

Matthew Gonzalez

423,933

MrMobile [Michael Fisher]

422,304

subscribers

1,280,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

226,497,433

views per day

394,592

typical day: 183,537

this week's videos (first-day views)

We’ve Given AirPods 0/10 for 10 Years. …

289,360

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

ETA PRIME

1,400,000

Tech Spurt

1,400,000

Parker Burton

1,380,000

Matthew Gonzalez

1,360,000

iFixit

1,280,000

MrMobile [Michael Fisher]

1,280,000

Snazzy Labs

1,270,000

Max Tech

1,270,000

Hardware Unboxed

1,170,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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