Practical phone and device guides from FixUpPhone: verified specifications, buying considerations, repairability, device care and routes to local or mail-in repair enquiries.
On a two-year-old iPhone 16 Pro Max, fast drain has two very different causes — a worn battery or something using a healthy one. Battery Health tells you which: read it first, fix the free causes, and judge a $119 replacement on evidence.
An iPhone 16 Pro Max that will not charge is usually stopped by one link in a chain — cable, adapter, socket, port, settings or a two-year-old battery. Work the isolation ladder one swap at a time, run the MagSafe test that splits the fault, and learn the published prices if it ends at hardware: a $119 battery at Apple, or $749 for port damage in the “other damage” tier.
Your iPhone 16 Pro Max screen is black — but is the phone alive behind it? The alive-or-dead test, the safe fixes in order, and what it costs if the display or battery has failed.
An iPhone 16 Pro Max screen that ignores your taps is not automatically a broken screen. Work the safe ladder in order — force restart, a patient charge, removing the case and protector, a computer update — and learn the signs that mean real touch damage: at Apple a $379 screen fee, or $29 with AppleCare+.
There is no button-only price for the iPhone 16 Pro Max: Apple prices a damaged side button in its $749 “other damage” tier ($99 with AppleCare+). Test the bare button with the case off, clear grit from around it, and use AssistiveTouch as a bridge — but the side button carries screenshots, Apple Pay confirmation and Emergency SOS, so a genuinely faulty one is worth repairing.
Test before you budget: run the four isolation tests — Voice Memos, front and rear video, a speakerphone call — to find which of the four studio-quality microphones is failing. Apple prices a mic as $749 “other damage” ($99 with AppleCare+); FixUpPhone quotes after assessment.
No speaker-only price exists for the iPhone 16 Pro Max: Apple puts speaker damage in its $749 other-damage tier ($99 with AppleCare+). Isolate which speaker is failing — earpiece or bottom — and run the free route, settings, case and mesh checks first; then compare an assessed repair quote.
Your iPhone 16 Pro Max got wet — the first hour matters more than the price. What to do first, what never to do, how corrosion works, and what Apple and an assessed repair actually charge.
Run the free checks first: clean the lenses with a microfibre cloth, remove the case and any magnetic accessories, restart the phone, and test each camera separately, then in another app. If one rear camera is genuinely faulty, Apple lists the repair at $249 out of warranty ($99 with AppleCare+); damage beyond the listed repairs falls into the $749 “other damage” tier. FixUpPhone quotes after assessment, because which camera failed decides the job.