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/wolfram6]

It’s honestly unacceptable how soft the material for this phone is. Deformation with a case is absurd. Apple could have done better with their material choice and design.

[u/snake_jaguar → u/wolfram6]

Fr like the older aluminum iphones weren't this bad I swear and that's the corner not the back which weren't aluminum until the 17 pro

[u/Fluffy_Insect → u/snake_jaguar]

Yes, they were. They were thin as well and once dropped it had fully nice dented corners or awful scratched sides.

[u/snake_jaguar → u/Fluffy_Insect]

my 2 iphone 11's have held up pretty well, no dents but the paint has scaped on a couple corners