you can see the adhesive is coming off and there we go what the hell is that why is there a blue film in here Apple what are you doing we can go ahead and unscrew this bracket over here we'll grab that and we'll also disconnect the flex cable two and one now we can remove this guy so this is actually a proximity sensor alongside a microphone so you definitely don't want to break this it would not be fun now obviously our goal is to disconnect the battery but to get there there's still a few things left to remove and remove that so our battery is right over here and we obviously know that because the plus and minus sign will go ahead and take a spudger and pop that off now the airpod Maxes are not connected to power so we can proceed