Transparent glass and a dumb phone fill Phone Repair Guru's week
Seven uploads include a see-through Duo project that has reached nearly 1.4 million views and an OLED iPad mini teardown.
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.
Can We Make The iPhone Duo Transparent?
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- 0:32Disassembly starts with brackets, the rear microphone and flash components.
- 2:13The charging coil comes out, magnets return to position, and excess graphite paper is trimmed.
- 4:52Baked-on paint is scraped from the curved glass because paint thinner hasn't worked.
- 6:06The coil, microphone mesh and camera rings are attached to the transparent backplate.
- 7:28The reassembled phone undergoes flash and wireless-charging tests.
The glass survived. That detail keeps coming up beneath Phone Repair Guru's "Can We Make The iPhone Duo Transparent?", the most watched upload of a seven-video week.
The project involves removing the charging coil and magnets, stripping baked-on paint from the rear glass, then putting the components back onto the newly clear panel. Paint thinner, the presenter explains, hasn't worked, so this is careful scraping rather than a quick chemical shortcut. The video includes a sponsored power-bank segment. By the final tests, the flash works and wireless charging kicks in.
Viewers have practical questions alongside their surprise that the glass stayed intact: could heating weaken the magnets, and would the channel ever offer transparent modifications to customers? Neither question is quite the same as admiring the finished phone. People are thinking about what living with one might involve.
Elsewhere, "This Is More Than A Dumb Phone #Shorts" is currently bringing in the most daily views of any channel upload. The OLED iPad mini teardown is another active draw, with the description highlighting its Acoustic Display audio system and unexpectedly approachable repairability. An older Short, "Apple Doesn't Want You To Do This... #Shorts", also continues to attract substantial daily viewing three weeks after publication.
The channel added about 10,000 subscribers over the week, although its current daily views are below their usual level. Among nearby gadget channels, Kyle Krueger had a particularly busy week, while Austin Evans and JayzTwoCents are currently seeing slower viewing than usual. For Phone Repair Guru, the week's most distinctive work remains the patient business of making a phone reveal what it normally hides.
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What viewers say
Your transparent mods always look very nice, really impressive that the backglass didn´t crack.
@Neon_195See it on YouTubeDoesn't the heat Demagnetize the magnet? so does doing this mod make the magnet weaker?
@rainiel0307See it on YouTubewould you do ever do a transparent mod for customers and how much would you charge for a standard phone?
@mickell555See it on YouTube
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Im suprised it didnt break
@ToshanChinniahSee it on YouTubeLooks really nice actually surprised it didn't break
@kaboomtech624See it on YouTubehonestly i struggle at even drilling a hook on a door. what you are doing is alien to me.
@gusto168See it on YouTubebro the flash looks SO GOSH DARN GOOD
@MINICarrotofficialSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Phone Repair Guru
- Subscribers
- 6,270,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 27,784,473
- Videos published this week
- 7
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,388,811
- Views on its first day
- 434,902
The numbers
Here is how Phone Repair Guru's week looks in views and subscribers.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which two functions does Phone Repair Guru test after reinstalling the transparent back?
The final checks confirm that the flash and wireless charging work after the modification.

