Here’s a tip. BEFORE you disassemble your phone, check the single set of adhesive strips that iFixit sends you. Both sides (blue and pink) should peel back easily. A number of posts here point out how the blue side of the strips was fused to the plastic backing. Mine was too. Alas, my phone is disassembled, and now i have to find new strips before i can reassemble. iFixIt should really send two sets of strips, and/or fix the quality control issue on these strips.

These are TERRIBLE instructions. My blue side (which the instructions say goes down on the battery) will not separate from the blue backing. The pink side, which the instructions say goes down on the case comes off very easily. But, since I cant separate the blue side from the blue backing, I’m screwed. To top it off, some people are commenting that the instructions are backwards. Either way, my adhesive strips are defective. Cannot separate the strips from the blue side. They will not budge.

OMG these are terrible instructions. My adhesive strip? The pink side peeled off easily, but the blue side refused to come loose. The instruction imply that the blue side goes down on the battery, and the pink side goes down on the case. But there is no way my blue side is going to come loose. To top it off, people are commenting that the instructions are backwards. It would great if there was a definitive correction to this!