A simple way to prevent iPhone bending

[kinster]

I've always done it with the screen facing my body. This is because it's easier to take out and look at it.

 

[Lyons00]

I have my 6 plus in my front pocket and haven't had any problems as of yet. I understand the bending part, if it's in your back pocket Not your front, unless the pants your wearing are super tight.

 

[toekneeg]

Sir when phones got to be phablet size, carrying them in a front pocket of tight jeans is stupid. In the back pocket of jeans or even dress slacks is stupid........come on, for gods sake, go back to a smaller phone if you cannot come up with a safe LOGICAL body place to carry it........I cant even believe we are discussing this..........If you do not, what ever phone you have. BENT OR BROKE, then use your head where you put it.........I don't care what phone in that size range, you will possibly damage it........and I do not mean just IPHONE 6 plus.........you wanna drive for hours with a phone in your back pocket sitting on it, or play football or baseball or basketball with it in some pocket, then I would highly suggest you go back to a flip phone........and a small one at that.........good grief......

People like you are driving me nuts. If I had no second thought of putting my Note 3 in my pocket, but now with Plus I gotta be careful, what does that say about the iPhone. And I've always thought of Apple as building a better product.

Not once did I worry about my Note 3 bending. Now I always gotta watch, making sure I'm not putting too much pressure on my new iPhone.

To the OP. My phone is twisted by being in my pocket the way you suggest. I say twisted because when I lay my phone on glass, the bottom right face lifts up.

 

[Bill Donato]

Then I would stop crying and go back to the Note 3
I just knew you were an android guy. They just cant do anything except complaining about Apple in any way. Why do you not just go visit android forums and stay peaceful. Oh wait, do they even have Android forums? LOL...........................AND YES I LOVE MY PERIODS

 

[Wrathwitch]

Sir when phones got to be phablet size, carrying them in a front pocket of tight jeans is stupid. In the back pocket of jeans or even dress slacks is stupid........come on, for gods sake, go back to a smaller phone if you cannot come up with a safe LOGICAL body place to carry it........I cant even believe we are discussing this..........If you do not, what ever phone you have. BENT OR BROKE, then use your head where you put it.........I don't care what phone in that size range, you will possibly damage it........and I do not mean just IPHONE 6 plus.........you wanna drive for hours with a phone in your back pocket sitting on it, or play football or baseball or basketball with it in some pocket, then I would highly suggest you go back to a flip phone........and a small one at that.........good grief......

I can't up-vote this enough. Kind of makes you wonder where common sense is with this particular demographic.

It may be somewhat dismaying that you have to make accommodations for the new phone size, I had to do this with my SGS4, and my soon to be Note4, I just have come to the conclusion that it will either have to be purse or jacket pocket, or if one has cargo pants, then one area where it is unlikely to encounter any bend stress threats.

I wish I could afford two phones. One for ultimate portability and the other for everything else that I love to do with them... sigh

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I have my 6 plus in my front pocket and haven't had any problems as of yet. I understand the bending part, if it's in your back pocket Not your front, unless the pants your wearing are super tight.

Its not so much a tight but short pocket depth that is likely the issue, anything that causes it to bend near the hip. Deeper pockets = better survivability.

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Yeah it really is pretty pathetic. They shouldn't have released a device with such a seemingly large design flaw.

It's not a design flaw its a logic flaw in the users to think that a larger area of thin metal applied to stresses won't bend

 

[pmcdn]

People like you are driving me nuts. If I had no second thought of putting my Note 3 in my pocket, but now with Plus I gotta be careful, what does that say about the iPhone. And I've always thought of Apple as building a better product.



Not once did I worry about my Note 3 bending. Now I always gotta watch, making sure I'm not putting too much pressure on my new iPhone.



To the OP. My phone is twisted by being in my pocket the way you suggest. I say twisted because when I lay my phone on glass, the bottom right face lifts up.

I personally believe this bending issue is being blown way out of proportion.

Of the 10 million iPhones sold so far, let's assume (very conservatively) that only 2 million are 6 Plus. There's likely only a small handful that are bending their phones in their pockets which would be a very small percentage.

Some people are harder on their phones than others, wear tighter pants, etc etc.

I'm not denying the problem, but we're only really hearing about the ones that ARE getting bent, not the 2 million or way more that are NOT getting bent. I don't believe this will be a rapidly growing epidemic and I seriously doubt that if you get an iPhone 6 or 6+ it will automatically bend like putting a stick of gum in your pocket.

 

[JoeTomasone]

I personally believe this bending issue is being blown way out of proportion.

Of the 10 million iPhones sold so far, let's assume (very conservatively) that only 2 million are 6 Plus. There's likely only a small handful that are bending their phones in their pockets which would be a very small percentage.

Some people are harder on their phones than others, wear tighter pants, etc etc.

I'm not denying the problem, but we're only really hearing about the ones that ARE getting bent, not the 2 million or way more that are NOT getting bent. I don't believe this will be a rapidly growing epidemic and I seriously doubt that if you get an iPhone 6 or 6+ it will automatically bend like putting a stick of gum in your pocket.

Stop making sense. You are ruining Samsung's talking points.

 

[vgamedude]

I can't up-vote this enough. Kind of makes you wonder where common sense is with this particular demographic.

It may be somewhat dismaying that you have to make accommodations for the new phone size, I had to do this with my SGS4, and my soon to be Note4, I just have come to the conclusion that it will either have to be purse or jacket pocket, or if one has cargo pants, then one area where it is unlikely to encounter any bend stress threats.

I wish I could afford two phones. One for ultimate portability and the other for everything else that I love to do with them... sigh

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Its not so much a tight but short pocket depth that is likely the issue, anything that causes it to bend near the hip. Deeper pockets = better survivability.

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It's not a design flaw its a logic flaw in the users to think that a larger area of thin metal applied to stresses won't bend

So you think its logical to design a phone that can bend in a front pocket?

 

[Wrathwitch]

So you think its logical to design a phone that can bend in a front pocket?

I think it is logical if you take the physics into account. As for designing a phone that is that fragile.....

Here's some facts:

We know that thin metals bend under stress.

We also know that larger areas are weaker under stress (of thin metals).

Apple is obsessed with skinny or thin.

If you are going to buy a micro thin phone, you will have to understand what risks you take when you put it into a place that causes bending stresses.

One might even assume (this is not a fact but an assumption) that it is wise to put a protective case on such a device if you are determined to put it where it is exposed to these stresses. Otherwise DON'T PUT IT WHERE IT HAS A VERY LIKELY CHANCE OF BEING DAMAGED!

The other option is choose not to purchase your wafer phone.

That is what I think.

 

[Korican100]

Why are all the bend tests with the glass facing out/down?

So essentially, wouldn't the pocket problem be solved by putting the glass facing your leg?

 

[Korican100]

Also, why are all the bend tests being viralized are glass facing out/down. I'd like to see the difference in lbs of pressure when facing the opposite way.

 

[wxman2003]

Also, why are all the bend tests being viralized are glass facing out/down. I'd like to see the difference in lbs of pressure when facing the opposite way.

Probably because the glass would break first. Not sure I would want to bend glass in my hand. But you right, I would like to see how many pounds of force it would take to break with glass facing up vs the back facing up in those tests.