Online repair The iFixit service has a new app today. When you open it, you’ll see something you’ve probably been waiting for in a new release: a chatbot.
The app, now available for both iOS and Android, can help users check their phone’s battery health, find tools and instructions for repairing things around the house, and fix all kinds of device issues. It provides mobile access to manuals and repair guides for the more than 125,000 devices that iFixit has cataloged in its extensive repair library.
The new chatbot, called FixBot, just makes finding what you need that much easier. Need to replace your iPhone screen? Changing the tire on your 1986 Volvo truck? FixBot can help you if you just type or say your request describing the problem you are having. You can even use your phone’s camera to get started. Snap a picture of that Volvo’s flat tire, your broken iPod, or your broken espresso machine, and FixBot’s computer vision engine can probably recognize what model it is and guide you through the repair process.
FixBot is an amalgamation of a dozen different AI models from nearly every player in the generative AI space. The bot is designed to focus solely on repair, pulling from iFixit’s ever-growing pool of repair guides and giving you links to find where to get the replacement parts or special tools needed to do the repair. (Most of these links back to the iFixit store, naturally.)
