Is is possible to put the hard drive of an iPhone 4 into another iPhone 4?

My iPhone won't turn on! It was on the last time I checked and it won't turn on even putting the charger on. So I'm wondering if I get another iPhone will it be possible to put the hard drive onto the new one. I know I will have to take the whole thing apart but can it be done?

IPhone? Hard drive?
No such thing.

OK it does have a solid-state equivalent, but it's hard-wired into the phone.

Short answer… NO

IPhones have something called "solid state drives" which are basically very small hard drives which have no moving parts and use less power.

Technically you could open it up and move it to a new one, but the chance of breaking something on the working iPhone or breaking the solid state drive (so you lose all of your content) is extremely high.

You need to take the iPhone into an Apple store and ask them if there's any way of getting the content off it onto a new iPhone.

Also, if you've backed up your iPhone, you'll be able to restore the working iPhone to how the original one was set up.

Ask apple

Sorry, but this is the #1 reason that android>apple

Everytime you sync your iPhone to iTunes, it automatically backs up everything on your iPhone. If you attach a new iPhone to your computer for the first time, iTunes will ask you if you want to restore from your backup. No need to take the hard drive out.

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