Phone Repair Guru peels the Duo's screen film off

The display still works afterward, but the folding phone's central crease becomes a little more noticeable.

Channel: Phone Repair Guru Story of October 25, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,825,007 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (126,746).

Apple Doesn't Want You To Do This... #Shorts

Phone Repair Guru starts with a heat gun and a warning he is about to disregard. "Apple doesn't recommend you tear off the nano-texture display on the Duo, so that's what we're going to do," he says.

A plastic prying card lifts the edge, then the film steadily comes away from the folding screen. The immediate result is less dramatic than the setup: the display still functions, though the crease looks slightly more pronounced. "The phone still looks fine and works great," he says, before ending with an instruction not to try it yourself.

The Short, titled "Apple Doesn't Want You To Do This... #Shorts", drew about 1.8 million views in its first day, roughly fourteen times the channel's usual Shorts start. A separate upload, "He's Going To Snap This... #Shorts", also drew an unusually large first-day audience alongside the channel's full Duo teardown.

In the comments, the practical question is whether the removed layer can be replaced like an ordinary scratched screen protector. Other viewers compare his heat-and-card approach with JerryRigEverything's removal by hand. Phone Repair Guru demonstrates that this particular display works immediately after the peel; the closing warning makes clear he is not recommending the experiment.

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The numbers

The screen-film experiment drew a much larger first-day audience than Phone Repair Guru's usual Short.

the video's first day

usual first day here

126,746

this video

1,825,007

subscribers

6,230,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

6,205,518,856

views per day

3,053,470

typical day: 5,887,172

the video

views

1,844,684

likes

28,064

comments

321

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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7,800,000

TechRax

7,660,000

iJustine

7,060,000

Romina Gafur

6,600,000

Phone Repair Guru

6,230,000

Austin Evans

5,850,000

As of October 25, 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.