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Not true. Apple has a self-service repair program for most of its products, including the iPad mini.

All the repair manuals are available online and you can buy official Apple parts. [1] They'll even sell or rent the tools you will need.

If these capabilities were available to the public, someone somewhere would make a biological weapon or create a virus we've never seen before that could kill many millions of people.

Stanford researchers have demonstrated it’s possible [1].

"But what if I lose all of my Apple devices in a freak boating accident?" people often ask or something like it. Apple has a procedure for this [1].

You can contact your "recovery contact" (a trusted friend or family member) that can help authenticate you to regain access to your account, especially if you're locked out or forgot your password.

On a new device, you login to your Apple account, make sure iCloud Keychain is enabled, and all of your credentials, including your passkeys, sync to your device.

I get it—not everyone wants or uses iCloud. Apparently, you can use 3rd party password managers like 1Password, Bitwarden, etc. to backup and recover your passkeys to use elsewhere.

Here's a video of an export from 1Password to the Passwords app on an iPhone [2].

Not so fast. Migrating passkeys from iOS to Android is possible now; migrating from Android to iOS is still being worked on.

Ricky Mondello's team at Apple created the Passwords app which brought passkeys to iOS, macOS, etc.

The entire presentation is worth watching if you’re interested in passkeys; the the clip below starts at 24:00 mark where they talk about migrating between platforms.

    Starting with iOS 26.5, you can choose to move passkeys and passwords
    from Apple Passwords to Google Password Manager. However, Android still
    needed "a future update" to receive them. That same update is meant to
    add transfers from Android back to iPhone [1].

In other words, being able to move passkeys between devices and platforms has always been part of the plan.

JPEG XL and the other modern formats can support at least 10-bits per pixel, that's over a billion colors.

AVIF supports 12-bits per pixel; JPEG XL [1] can support up to 32-bits per pixel.