Samsung and Apple flop the EU repairability report once again. Two of the most powerful phone manufacturers on the planet just got schooled by Motorola.

The “Failing the Fix 2026” report from the US PIRG Education Fund (via WIRED) dropped this week, and it’s not kind to the industry’s biggest names.

• Apple pulled a D minus, the lowest grade among major brands surveyed.
• Samsung wasn’t far behind with a D.
• Motorola walked away with a B plus.

This isn’t the old French repairability index system. The report has shifted to the EU’s EPREL database, a framework designed to capture how repairs actually work in the real world, not just how manufacturers say they work on paper.

The scoring pulls from disassembly ease, spare parts availability, repair documentation access, standard tool compatibility, and declared software support duration.

Inside the EPREL system, Samsung lists only the regulatory minimum: five years of software support. Samsung scores the worst possible marks in the software category despite offering better coverage than most of its rivals.

Ease of disassembly now carries more weight than any other factor in the scoring. That shift hit Samsung and Apple harder than most.

Samsung’s scores were calculated from just five models because its EPREL listings are incomplete. The company had the opportunity to update its official regulatory disclosures, which may have improved its repairability scores.

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