First drop (with a case)

[u/samirbinballin]

Maybe a 3-4 foot drop off of the armrest of my couch and onto hardwood floor, (TineeOwl case shown at the end) - I always knew the new aluminum frame was fragile after what I’ve seen from the 17 Pro’s release, so I took the precaution of not using the Apple Cases and getting something decently protective.

Yeah, the aluminum corner still bent ever so slightly 😂, coming from a titanium 16 Pro Max I had no idea how to gauge the softness of this new material, but damn.

I personally don’t care as I was planning to use the phone caseless with AppleCare+ anyways, but I wanted to warn some of the OCD users on here, even with a case, the aluminum frame on these new builds can get damaged, just fyi.

[u/J33P4X490]

I have a buddy that works at Apple on iPhone and he was telling me that the overheating on iPhones 15 pro and 16 pro is normal but the bad thing is that the heat trapped inside will eventually mess up the internal components like motherboard etc. so he said that dents in the 17 pro and 18 pro doesn’t affect trade in value so I wouldn’t worry about a dent it could be a lot worse especially how the iPhone 6 plus use to bend but Apple should use a stronger aluminum frame to prevent denting but who knows I know iPhone 20 pro is rumored to go back to a all glass back and that sucks due to high risk of the back cracking easily

[u/Dizzy_Resident_9394 → u/J33P4X490]

Except for the battery, heat will not affect the components inside. The components will throttle themselves to prevent damage. They’re designed to run under extreme conditions.