How does a phone screen really work?

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I cracked my screen and thought for sure something inside of my iPhone XR was broke, but the tech came to my apartment and 30 minutes later, my phone was back to new.

It got me wondering, how does the screen really work? Is the picture in the glass itself and that’s why it can just be replaced and back to normal? Is there something behind that glass that had to be replaced too? Where the hell does the picture even come from.

Sorry if I’m asking too many questions but I’m so intrigued after my screen was literally cracked and there were black spots and green and black lines all over it, and just by replacing the glass it’s back to normal.

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The screen has many layers behind the glass, one of which is a sheet of OLEDs that light up to display an image. If you had colored lines, then that layer got screwed up, too. The tech pulled the entire display from the phone an swapped in a new one.

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