According to a thread on Reddit, Apple may be creating a whole new type of screw to make it even more difficult for third party repairers to get inside it’s upcoming smartphone.

Apple are notorious for making its products hard to repair and if these pictures are correct it seems like repairers have there work cut out for them with the iPhone 5.

As with all Apple rumours, this must be taken with a grain of salt, but it wouldn’t surprise us if it was correct.