ATTENTION! Dust Entering through Silent Switch | DESIGN FLAW | 3D Touch | iPhone 6s

[Qbnkelt]

Screenshots obviously don't show any issue. You again sound condescending. A lot of people notice the dust issue with regular use as well. Please try to be more empathic.

Well I've used this phone since September 25th. In dust and grass and alfalfa fields. I don't see any dust or dots or whatever.
The screenshot was asked of me so I provided it.
If you feel I sound condescending then that's your prerogative. I question what I feel like questioning and won't ever stop. I think everyone on the forum is a grown up, and if not, then it's a lesson in answering pointed questions.

 

[Skika]

Well I've used this phone since September 25th. In dust and grass and alfalfa fields. I don't see any dust or dots or whatever.
The screenshot was asked of me so I provided it.
If you feel I sound condescending then that's your prerogative. I question what I feel like questioning and won't ever stop. I think everyone on the forum is a grown up, and if not, then it's a lesson in answering pointed questions.

How could dust possibly be seen on a screenshot? Do you realize how...not very smart that is? I asked for a picture of the screen

 

[Qbnkelt]

How could dust possibly be seen on a screenshot? Do you realize how...not very smart that is? I asked for a picture of the screen

Hey how would I know. As I said I don't go around with loupes scrutinising screens. I get the phone and then get on with life.
So here you go. Scrutinise to your heart's content and tell me what you find.
And no I'm not taking off the screen protector if that's the next request.

 

[James.K.Polk]

Hey how would I know. As I said I don't go around with loupes scrutinising screens. I get the phone and then get on with life.
So here you go. Scrutinise to your heart's content and tell me what you find.
And no I'm not taking off the screen protector if that's the next request.

In this photo, it appears there is some unevenness across the top. Whether it's dust or backlight-related, I know not.

 

[Qbnkelt]

In this photo, it appears there is some unevenness across the top. Whether it's dust or backlight-related, I know not.

Oh that's not the issue. That doesn't bother me, I've never checked for it and it doesn't affect me. There's always something on my screen so any shading doesn't bother me one bit. Neither do the supposed boulders of rock that are supposed to be clearly visible to the point that people are returning devices at the numbers of five and six at a time due to some supposedly universal flaw in design.
Ppppppffffftttt.....

 

[tvbi]

Got my first piece of dust this week

 

[Sunny1990]

Hey how would I know. As I said I don't go around with loupes scrutinising screens. I get the phone and then get on with life.
So here you go. Scrutinise to your heart's content and tell me what you find.
And no I'm not taking off the screen protector if that's the next request.

That looks OK to me and that above corner seems backlight not the dust,hey can you please provide a photo without screen protector for better clarification (just joking LOL)

 

[HEK]

Got my first piece of dust this week

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Congrats. First picture I can actually see the particle. I call it "particle" because that is the fattest piece of dust I have ever seen. Dust is usually much smaller, with fiber like properties in my experience. That blob looks like some sort of flaking, particle coming off a layer of something inside the phone. There is no way that it got sucked into phone by the silent switch because of air pressure changes from pressing the screen as was purported the case in another response. If you bang the phone on something resilient, does the particle move? You don't get your carrier letters / logo before the LTE?

Thanks for the picture.

 

[Qbnkelt]

That looks OK to me and that above corner seems backlight not the dust,hey can you please provide a photo without screen protector for better clarification (just joking LOL)

OK see???? You just made me spray coffee all over my laptop.

 

[HEK]

Screenshots obviously don't show any issue. You again sound condescending. A lot of people notice the dust issue with regular use as well. Please try to be more empathic.

I still question calling it dust. That word "dust" carries with it assumptions that are all together , NOT PROVEN". Like it came from outside the phone, through a switch opening. Sucked in by pressing on screen, etc.

The picture I just saw, does NOT look like dust I have experienced. The particle is way larger and appears more like some flaking off of a coating. I realize this forum is for speculation and rumors, but making wild ass claims about origin and mechanism of transport of some particles based on sight or area of screen seen at is, shear speculation. Doesn't make it true, no matter how many times you repeat it. This isn't Faux News.

So if others of us, don't have the issue, and report that. Or question the conclusions victims of this defect make it is neither condescendingly nor inappropriate. This is a forum for discussion. Not a complaint department. As for your statement "a lot of people", how many is that exactly? 5, 10, 100? Based on my reading of this thread it appears to be more like a hand full of people. Vocal yes, but since hundreds of millions of iPhone are in existence, the percentage of people experiencing this issue seems to be far right of the decimal point.

I would like to know what is causing this, what the particles actually are, and why a few iPhones have this issue. I feel for the people that paid good money and wanted a pristine device and find they have a blemish to their dreams. Not being condescending here. I would feel bad as well should this issue appear on my phone.

However, if you want to cast stones on other people's comments, perhaps you should remove yourself from your glass house. Stick to facts, which there are few of, in this thread and allow people to have varying opinions about this issue without you berating them because they report their good experience thereby level setting this issue a bit.

 

[Merkie]

However, if you want to cast stones on other people's comments, perhaps you should remove yourself from your glass house. Stick to facts, which there are few of, in this thread and allow people to have varying opinions about this issue without you berating them because they report their good experience thereby level setting this issue a bit.

You obviously don't understand a word I said. I never said a lot of people experience the issue, I said that of the people who do experience the issue, a lot of them experience the issue with regular use as well, not just with a pure white screen at 100% brightness. If anything, I'm sticking to the facts and trying to be objective as possible, as opposed to the person I was replying too.

You don't get to decide for other people whether their issues are worth complaining or not. No need for cynical comments coupled with overly use of smiley faces. That's my point.

 

[Qbnkelt]

You obviously don't understand a word I said. I never said a lot of people experience the issue, I said that of the people who do experience the issue, a lot of them experience the issue with regular use as well, not just with a pure white screen at 100% brightness. If anything, I'm sticking to the facts and trying to be objective as possible, as opposed to the person I was replying too.

You don't get to decide for other people whether their issues are worth complaining or not. No need for cynical comments coupled with overly use of smiley faces. That's my point.

And *you* don't get to silence those of us who are challenging the whole premise of this thread. Oooooooohhhhhhh ATTENTION DUST UNDER SCREEN DESIGN FLAW!!!!! Dust gets in over time!!!!! THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!

You want to discuss facts? OK. I've got a work 6s and a personal 6s Plus. NEITHER shows this oooooo DESIGN FLAW. The dust appears over time? I've had my personal device since September 25th and my work device since December 2nd. Dust??? I ride horses and you can't dustier than a tack room by a dressage arena. Particles? Alfalfa particles that get into my barn coat pockets where I put my phone have miraculously stayed out of both my phones.

So logically, what's more likely? That my device has somehow avoided this DESIGN FLAW which by definition should affect all phones since all phones follow the same design, or that it is not dust and some other issue that only affects the user when he 1) looks for a solid white background at 2) 100% brightness and under 3) magnification with a loupe? Unlike all the self professed experts in this thread who claim to know exactly what's going on, I simply state *my* experience and *my* incredulity at the whole premise behind the OP.

So those of us who are not experiencing issues are well within our rights to say we don't see this supposed DESIGN FLAW that is causing people to return five phones. What bothers ME is that the cost of these returns to Apple could be passed down to us in the form of increased costs for Apple Care. So thanks to all the OCD checks with loupes under 100% brightness I end up with increase costs for *MY INSURANCE* through no fault of my own.

Two last thoughts.

You don't like emojis. I do. They're legal on this site. You can block me if you want but I'll continue using them. As long as I don't use the middle finger one, that's rude.

You need to research the definition of cynical and cynicism as opposed to sarcasm. While I use sarcasm as a way to avoid using some colorful language that would get me banned (so that I can express how I feel about certain posts) I'm not at all cynical.

That emoji, for example, was sarcasm. Not cynicism.

 

[crammedberry]

I think this takes some time to show up and you likely wouldn't notice it while still in your return window. This happened to my iPhone 6s about a month ago, that's 8 months after purchase. I thought it was just dead pixels in the upper left corner but when I took it in the apple genius told me that they'd seen a few like that and they would replace the screen for me. The new screen isn't showing any dust, and assuming it starts showing it again in about 8 months, I can still get another replacement screen.

 

[Qbnkelt]

I think this takes some time to show up and you likely wouldn't notice it while still in your return window. This happened to my iPhone 6s about a month ago, that's 8 months after purchase. I thought it was just dead pixels in the upper left corner but when I took it in the apple genius told me that they'd seen a few like that and they would replace the screen for me. The new screen isn't showing any dust, and assuming it starts showing it again in about 8 months, I can still get another replacement screen.

Personally I've had the 6s Plus since launch day. Two days short of nine months ago. If anything was going to show up it would have done so by now.
The work phone I've had seven months, since December. Nothing there either.

 

[Sunny1990]

Personally I've had the 6s Plus since launch day. Two days short of nine months ago. If anything was going to show up it would have done so by now.
The work phone I've had seven months, since December. Nothing there either.

Same here launch day iPhone 6s plus and no dust,dead pixels or anything still like day one

 

[mich070]

I think this takes some time to show up and you likely wouldn't notice it while still in your return window. This happened to my iPhone 6s about a month ago, that's 8 months after purchase. I thought it was just dead pixels in the upper left corner but when I took it in the apple genius told me that they'd seen a few like that and they would replace the screen for me. The new screen isn't showing any dust, and assuming it starts showing it again in about 8 months, I can still get another replacement screen.

I am not so lucky in that case.. Bought my iPhone in March, after 1 month had this dust or dead pixel, got te screen exchange. After this exchange I took the decision to always empty my pockets, in case this problem is due to my duty pockets. But no 1 month after the screen replacement I have another tiny dust stripe under my screen. I won't run now directly to my operator so that they can send it in to Apple and get the screen replaced after 2 weeks, I will just wait in case it gets more. Because the battery also gets a hit by being inactive for 2 weeks. So yeah that is my situation, I do not say that it bothers me a lot but since I never had any kind of problem like this one with my other phone, it makes me kind of sad.

 

[itsray]

jeez. some people are taking this too far. just use your phone normally. if it does bother you go to an apple store. you should be lucky they replaced your phone 5 times. and you still complain. maybe you shouldn't have an iPhone then.

 

[WilliamG]

My 6s Plus keeps getting worse and worse with the dust infiltration in the top left. Like a spreading disease of particles in there now.

 

[MrX8503]

I have dust in the top left corner as well. Will be taking it to the apple store for replacement. It's funny every iPhone I've ever owned has had some kind of replacement. iPhone5, scratch gate and dust in the camera lens, iPhone 6 shifting front facing camera, and now the 6S with dust in the screen. Apple has been top notch with replacements though.

 

[Dirtydutch]

Not to add fuel to the fire but I have some of the same artifacts in the corner of my phone and decided to blow compressed air in the mute rocker, after I did that point blank u can see and feel the screen blow up like a balloon. So if sealed they are not sealed too well. As I knew the screen was pliable because of the new Corning glass used for 3D Touch.

 

[Droidzoid]

I got a brand new replacement and off it went into a lifeproof case.

 

[anon.guy]

This is a serious problem, I got a replacement for my 6s and after barely 2 weeks, I can already see the first speck of dust big as a dead pixel. I smashed the phone to the ground two times and now it s gone. Hm, talking about quality from a 700$ phone...

 

[HEK]

This is a serious problem, I got a replacement for my 6s and after barely 2 weeks, I can already see the first speck of dust big as a dead pixel. I smashed the phone to the ground two times and now it s gone. Hm, talking about quality from a 700$ phone...

Anon finds solution to dust problem. Two smashes to floor and any dust should be history. Moderator can close this thread now that we have solution.

G forces from sudden deceleration as phone hits ground from high velocity throw will dislodge whatever particles adhere to the inside of the screen. Still awaiting chemical analysis to determine what particles are made of, as dust, has not been confirmed, just often repeated like trumpisms. Great dust, really great dust. We have the best dust.............

 

[Newtons Apple]

This is a serious problem, I got a replacement for my 6s and after barely 2 weeks, I can already see the first speck of dust big as a dead pixel. I smashed the phone to the ground two times and now it s gone. Hm, talking about quality from a 700$ phone...

If "smashing the phone to the ground" fixed it, what is the problem?

 

[anon.guy]

Anon finds solution to dust problem. Two smashes to floor and any dust should be history. Moderator can close this thread now that we have solution.

G forces from sudden deceleration as phone hits ground from high velocity throw will dislodge whatever particles adhere to the inside of the screen. Still awaiting chemical analysis to determine what particles are made of, as dust, has not been confirmed, just often repeated like trumpisms. Great dust, really great dust. We have the best dust.............

You actually made me laugh pretty good.