IT House reported on April 8 that the Education Fund (Education Fund), a branch of the consumer rights organization US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), released a 2026 report, pointing out that Apple ranked at the bottom in both notebook and mobile phone repairability scores, receiving C- and D- respectively.
In the field of notebook repairability, Asus received the highest score for the third consecutive year, receiving a B+ rating in the 2026 report; and in the field of mobile phone repairability, Lenovo’s Motorola took the top spot.
IT House quoted a blog post as saying that the American Public Interest Research Group Education Fund is an independent non-profit organization. Its core function is to provide data support, policy analysis and public popularization for public interest advocacy, and to help consumers protect their rights in daily life by publishing reports and guides.
This report evaluates 10 latest devices from each brand based on the French Repairability Index and the European Energy Label Product Registration Database (EPREL) standards.
Laptop ratings focus on dimensions such as ease of disassembly, maintenance documentation, availability of spare parts, and price. The mobile phone score includes 6 indicators including disassembly depth, fasteners, tools, and software update age.
Apple notebooks were deducted due to low disassembly scores, and an additional 1 point was deducted for joining TechNet and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), industry organizations that oppose repair legislation.
Lenovo’s notebook received a C-, ranking second from the bottom, partly because it did not publish the repair score PDF file on the French official website as required. The report pointed out that the overall repairability of the notebook industry has stagnated, and the speed of hardware improvement is far slower than the improvement of access to parts.
In the field of mobile phones, although Apple has made some progress by removing restrictions on component pairing and launching a repair assistant, third-party Face ID replacement parts are still unavailable. Apple has also extended activation lock to components, resulting in a large number of fully functional components being locked, resulting in a waste of resources.
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