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Because one guy who used all his strength to try to bend it caused bad publicity for Apple, despite so few cases being reported. This was an issue for the minuscule amount of people who had bent iPhones as a result of sitting on it in their back pocket, but I haven't seen a thread complaining about a bent iPhone in months. Anything to strengthen it is welcome though.
I read somewhere (I think it might have been in the comments section on an Ars Technical article) that Apple already had made improvements to the 6 Plus. Who knows if that's true or not but if this was still an issue (or a real #gate) we'd still be hearing about it, no? When I try to pull oneofthenine.com nothing happens. Looks like that website no longer exists, though it hadn't been updated in ages.
 
Ask Siri: "Hey Siri, tell me a bed-time story."

If you are lucky, instead of getting the psychedelic one, you will get her dissertation on series 6000 and 7000 aluminum and how it can be strengthened by using an age hardening precipitation heating process.

It could very well be that the 6s will tweak the grade of aluminum and employ a heat aging process and Siri is tipping Apple's hand.

On and if you do get the Al story the first time around, hang in to get the psychedelic one it will screw up your dreams.
 
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If the new phones are getting force touch isn't it possible Apple made structural changes to accommodate that?
 
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As I posted before, my iPhone6 Plus was replaced a month ago due to a camera lens issue. When the "genius" inspected it, she noted that it was bent at the volume buttons. I didn't believe her so I asked to look for myself and it actually was. Was it still functional? Of course, I never even noticed something was off. However I always have it in my front pocket and I don't wear the dreaded skinny jeans as my "ahem" keg won't allow it. I also have always had it in a case. If mine bent under those conditions, there is a weak spot for sure. That being said, bender bent an unbend able girder....anything can be bent/broken with the right amount of force or with the force applied in just the right spot.
 
Yeah I hate when I go to put my iPhone into a case and the phone just breaks into a million pieces. LOL, seriously?

keep your sarcasm to yourself, I am not technician, I'm just raising a hypothesis. If this micro bend that happened to my iPhone wasn't result of fall, neither misuse, or tight pants pocket, could be from putting in and out from the hard leather case, or something else. The point is iPhone 6 / Plus are not strong enough.

A technician from the Apple Assistance also told me this loose screen could happen because of dilated battery, but he opened my iPhone and said it was not the case...

There are a lot of similar situations over the internet, it is not a coincidence, the product is really fragile to bend, I hate to admit that, and it was exactly at the top left corner, near the problematic spot.

Well what matters is that Apple replace it for a brand new one, and as soon as I can I will change for the 6S, so that I will put at my pockets as I always did with my other iPhones without any concerns.
 
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I usually wear fitted pants and the iPhone 6 Plus slides in tightly into my side pocket. It was never an issue, my phone never bent and I've even often kept it in my back pocket and sat on it in the car and have never found it to bend in the slightest.
I find this very hard to believe - your phone probably has a slight bend, unless (perhaps) you keep it in a robust third-party case.

There is no bendgate, this was and still is some nonsense cooked up by people who don't protect their devices. No one goes around bending phones like they show.
These extreme "tests" prove nothing about normal use - one way or the other.

Such a "rare" occurrence, where they only had 9 reported bends at the time that they commented about it, yet they felt it was necessary to improve the stability of the build. I don't know any company that would improve on a physical feature that had "minor" and "rare" defects. Clearly they lied about this "rare" occurrence.

I personally know about 10 people who's 6+ phones bent. My screen shattered inside my jacket pocket when I was walking. As visually pretty, and great internals are, the quality of the 6's build was just horrible. I rarely see a non cracked or bent 6/6+. I find it extremely unlikely that it is everyones fault and not the quality of the phone.
This is the reality.

But I find the overall quality high. It sounds like Apple's fixing exactly what needs to be fixed, before it gets out of hand. Six months from now, when millions of iPhone 6 and 6 Pluses have been traded-in or sold, people will recognize that a large percentage of them have a slight bend. By then Apple will have fixed the problem in the new models. It will be interesting to see whether Apple can continue to deal with it quietly, or whether it becomes a bigger issue they have to deal with publicly.
 
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Wow. Really? Let me see... I'm going spend hundreds of dollars to purchase a sensitive piece of technology, fit it into a pocket located where I can articulate my body through at least 90 degrees of motion or more, and moreover, realize that this piece of technology is larger - perhaps much larger - than even a wallet or what I would normally stuff in said pocket.

Metal does bend; in fact, that's what makes it so useful as a material.

I echo the poster who emphasized "personal responsibility".

Clearly, this is a first world problem.
 
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Anyone else confused by the statement that the 7000 series alloy would be lighter than the 6000 series alloy? I did a little searching and then some comparisons. The 7000 series alloys contain 2-8% zinc and 1-3% magnesium while the 6000 series seems to contain only about a tenth of those percentages and being more aluminum. Zinc is considerably (twice) heavier than aluminum and magnesium is only slightly lighter than aluminum. I would think that would make the 7000 series casing heavier all other things ( and added bulk to bend points) being equal in the case design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_alloy

Maybe it's not 7000 series aluminum or maybe they thinned it out in other places.
 
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I remember I was in an Apple Store when the 6 and 6 Plus were released and there were a bunch of ********s in front of my bending the phones and then leaving the store! The store I go to doesn't have any CCTV cameras I don't think.
 
Interestingly, the video shows that the "iPhone 6s" rear shell is also slightly lighter, despite having a thicker shell at certain weak points. The purported "iPhone 6s" rear shell weighs in at 25 grams, compared to 27 grams for the iPhone 6 rear shell, suggesting that Apple could be using a new material such as the rumored 7000 Series anodized aluminum for its next-generation smartphones.

Article Link: Apple Addresses 'Bendgate' By Strengthening Weak Points of 'iPhone 6s' Shell

This makes no sense according to my extensive googling (lol):

https://www.google.ca/search?source...um 6061 weight&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4026j0j4

https://www.google.ca/search?q=alum...0.3158j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8
 
I find this very hard to believe - your phone probably has a slight bend, unless (perhaps) you keep it in a robust third-party case.

Believe what you want.

I've never put a case on any of my iPhones going back to 7 years. My iPhone 6 Plus is perfectly straight, it sits flush with a table.
 
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I like the fact the company is looking after us...

Although hardening anything is good to "prevent" any issues, perhaps this is just a large oversight that Apple and most other manufactures refuse to acknowledge that people treat their stuff badly.

So bad in fact, {we} have a hard shell so now we can say "oh, now can do even more damage to it, thanks to my hard shell" I couldn't bend it this much with my old phone, but look it now goes 90 degrees.

If users managed to treat their phones as well they do their cars, they'd be no need for this.

but i do like Apple for giving this a go to try a solve a problem that exists in everyday life.
 
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Or maybe they addressed nothing at all (because they didn't too) and planned to go to series 7000 aluminium once they mastered it after using in in the WATCH.

This title is plain editorial clickbait, especially considering they likely sold 200M Iphone 6 since "bendgate" and the whole thing just died.
 
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Lol, yes there was, hence why they are making changes to it.

Because they used 7000 aluminium in the WATCH (which they just launched) and so they feel comfortable now using it in the phone, and they're changing internal component attach points because of changes in the internal components (as seen in the leaked shells), so they have to redesign the shell anyway.

Considering the fact that using a brand new aluminium and process is a major multi-year investment, it is very very unlikely that addressing an overblown less than one year old internet meme that had no impact on their sales, was involved in any way.

Find me proof of your own over the top assertion instead of just trumpeting.
Right now, you're speculating, just like me and this clickbait article.

At least, I'm basing my opinions on actual facts at hands and not my own bias.
 
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There is no bendgate, this was and still is some nonsense cooked up by people who don't protect their devices. No one goes around bending phones like they show. And if you stick your phone in your back pocket and sit on it.. causing it to bend that's your fault! Of course the next device will hit and someone will make some more garbage up and chuck "GATE" at the end of it. Clearly people don't know what "GATE" really means when they just associate it with another word. RAMBLEGATE! annoying.

GATEGATE!
 
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I can't believe that people still feel the need to defend each and everything Apple does. They make great products and I am a big time Apple fan but please - they reinforced it for a reason. The initial bad publicity has long since died down and the have sold a ton of phones since then and it's something that is never even mentioned anymore in the media. But they would not reinforce the new design for no reason. Clearly it wasn't a huge problem, but it was big enough that they modified the design. Why this seems to bother people enough that they try and rationalize it is silly. It reminds me of how many people on here were scoffing at the need for cut and paste on the original iPhone because it didn't have it.
 
Anyone else confused by the statement that the 7000 series alloy would be lighter than the 6000 series alloy? I did a little searching and then some comparisons. The 7000 series alloys contain 2-8% zinc and 1-3% magnesium while the 6000 series seems to contain only about a tenth of those percentages and being more aluminum. Zinc is considerably (twice) heavier than aluminum and magnesium is only slightly lighter than aluminum. I would think that would make the 7000 series casing heavier all other things ( and added bulk to bend points) being equal in the case design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_alloy

Maybe it's not 7000 series aluminum or maybe they thinned it out in other places.

If they thinned out the case and used carbon fiber bracings, it would be lighter and stronger. The people with those cases could have verified this by putting them in water to see displacements. All those leakers are either idiots or they can't touch those parts and have to put them back... ;-).
 
And again a problem that apple evaded by just keeping quiet. Giving some users new devices. Selling a lot more to people who thought it was their own fault. This is just great. Kudos :)
 
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