Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are slightly easier to repair than their forerunners, the iPhone 5C and 5S, iFixit said today after tearing apart the smartphones in Australia, where the devices first went on sale Friday.

iFixit, a popular electronics do-it-yourself repair website, gave the new iPhones a repair score of 7 out of a possible 10, the same as 2012’s iPhone 5, but better than the scores by 2013’s iPhone 5C and 5S, which were each awarded 6 out of 10. The site credited the better score for this year’s round of iPhones to easier removal of their batteries and the change to the fingerprint scanner’s cable, which last year was easily torn from its socket while opening the case.

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