Apple has opened up its Self Service Repair program to the UK and seven more European countries. 

This is the first expansion outside of the US since Apple launched the program in April, offering consumers repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools so they can fix their own iPhones. These are not available for the latest iPhone 14 models. 

"Customers who wish to complete their own repairs will be able to perform many of the most common repairs for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and Mac notebooks with Apple silicon," Apple notes in a press release. 

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The Apple parts, tools and manuals can be obtained from the third-party run Self Service Repair Store. It's open to customers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. 

The Self Service Repair won't be for everyone, as it's aimed at those with experience in repairing electronic devices. But at least this set of customers do have the choice to do repairs on their own with genuine Apple parts. 

On the other hand, replacing a battery without destroying other parts can be tricky without specialist equipment, as the repairers from iFixit showed when rating the iPhone 14 the most repairable iPhone in years. 

The iPhone 12 Battery Bundle, for example, costs UK customers