Introducing iFixit’s Multitasking VoltClip
The VoltClip is a tiny dongle that uses USB power to tap the iPhone 16’s battery glue, debonding the adhesive and letting you lift the battery cleanly out of the phone. But its utility doesn’t stop there.
Nobody likes a unitasker. Which is why iFixit’s new VoltClip can do way, way more than just release iPhone 16 batteries by electrically debonding the glue that holds them in place. I mean, it’s a 12 Volt barrel-connector power supply juiced by USB. What can’t it do?
The main purpose of the VoltClip is to hotwire the iPhone 16’s battery. This year, Apple introduced a new kind of battery glue to the iPhone. Instead of using pull tabs to release the adhesive, you apply a voltage across the glue via two tabs, and after a few seconds to a couple of minutes (depending on the voltage used), the adhesive is disabled.
This is way better than pull tabs because it can be done without having to disassemble the phone just to reach the tabs. A previous quick workaround was to carefully flow isopropyl alcohol into the battery area, but this could result in the wrong adhesives, or waterproof seals, getting eaten away too.
