The larger 2017 home-button iPhone and the first Plus with a glass back and wireless charging. Its Touch ID button is paired to the phone, which is the single most important thing about repairing its screen.
The fee is waived when you go ahead with the repair, and you get a fixed quote before any work starts.
Like-for-like LCD, one of the more affordable iPhone screens to replace.
Your original paired home button moves to the new screen.
Our Newcastle workshop; never sent on.
We repair iPhone 8 Pluss by post for customers right across the UK. Book online, send it in, and we diagnose it and confirm a fixed price before any work starts — with a £45 diagnostic that is waived when you go ahead with the repair. It comes back to you tracked and insured.
The iPhone 8 Plus uses an LCD rather than an OLED display. That makes it one of the more affordable iPhone screens to replace, and a good LCD looks right on it because it is the same kind of panel the phone shipped with. Apple pairs the display to the logic board, so we move the original calibration across to the new panel. Skip that step and the screen still works, but True Tone and auto-brightness stop behaving as they should.
Apple designs the iPhone 8 Plus's battery to keep about 80% of its capacity after 500 full charge cycles. At around 9 years old, yours may well be past that — check Settings, Battery, Battery Health. Below 80%, iOS can slow the phone to prevent sudden shutdowns, which is why an older iPhone often feels slow rather than short of charge.
The iPhone 8 Plus's Touch ID sensor is in the home button and is paired to the logic board, so the original button has to move onto the replacement screen. Nobody can pair a new button to your phone, Apple included — at best it restores basic presses, never fingerprint unlock. We transfer the original as standard, and if the drop destroyed it we tell you before the repair rather than after. On this generation the button is solid-state — it does not physically move, the phone just vibrates — so there is no mechanical part to fix, only the sensor to protect.
The iPhone 8 Plus's back glass is bonded to the frame. Apple's answer to a cracked back is a whole new rear housing with every internal part moved across. We use a laser to break the adhesive and lift the broken glass off your existing frame instead, then fit a new panel — a fraction of the cost of a housing swap, and your phone keeps its own frame.
Charging faults on the iPhone 8 Plus come through the Lightning port, and the port is usually the problem rather than the board. Ports wear with every cable pulled out at an angle, and pocket lint packs into the bottom until the plug can no longer seat. Often a careful clean fixes it; if not, it is a port repair rather than anything more serious. Lightning cables fail often, so we test with a known-good one before blaming the port.
Liquid damage on the iPhone 8 Plus is corrosion, not just water, and it keeps spreading after the phone feels dry. Its water-resistance rating is a factory figure that weakens with every drop and repair. Apple's warranty does not cover liquid damage on any iPhone. Turn it off, do not charge it, and skip the rice. We strip the phone, clean the board ultrasonically and test each part individually — and if it cannot be saved economically, we say so and put your data first.
Blurry or black photos, a cracked camera lens cover, a front camera that fails on video calls, muffled speakers and buttons that stop responding are all individually repairable on the iPhone 8 Plus. Cracked lens glass is often just the cover — a much smaller job than a new camera module — so we check which one you actually need before quoting.
Post it to us from anywhere in the UK, or walk in to 119 New Bridge Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2SW with free private parking in front of the shop. Either way you get a £45 diagnostic that is waived when you go ahead with the repair, a fixed quote before any work starts, and a 30-day warranty on the repair.
iRepair Labs is an independent repair workshop and is not an Apple Authorised Service Provider. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc.
