I read that before posting. He's talking about scratches. I'm talking about how the color fades like on the X.
What colour are you thinking of getting? I have the gold max, had it for 5 months and the colour hasn’t faded.
No I use it in clear spigen case. It covers the back and sides, just leaving cutouts for the lightning port and the speaker grills.
I have never read/heard too many issues with the PVD coating peeling/separating on the iPhone bands. Even if you encountered a defect where the coating would start to peel off the bands, you would be covered under warranty anyways from Apple. [Your sweat shouldn’t really cause that much of a reaction for the PVD coating to separate away from the bands, unless it’s corrosive, but that sounds to be an extreme case.]
That really made me feel good because I really want to get a gold XS. Thing is something similar happened to my Apple Watch Sport. The anodizing kept chipping. Probably due to sweat. I didn't come across a post about PVD coating on an XS fading, only iPhone X posts. Guess they sorted it out.
The big difference being with the 7000 series aluminum, that’s anodized aluminum, that’s a totally different chemical process from using ‘Physical vapor deposition’ [PVD] on the iPhone stainless bands. Aluminum also can have a much stronger reaction with chemicals, and sweat being corrosive, is likely what you experienced with your Apple Watch. And I have read other cases where someone else mentioned their sweat was corrosive enough where they had a reaction with the aluminum on the Sport Apple Watch.
Thanks! I really hope it holds up. I still feel like getting the silver version because it can be polished. I do that to my silver X. Even though I'll never get it scratched, I'm just worried that it'll discolor like some of the iPhone Xs I've seen.
The advantage to the silver iPhone X bands, it’s just ‘raw surgical stainless’, so any scuffs or light scratches will easily be able to removed with a polishing cloth from Cape Cod, [Which I highly recommend], the only concern with the gold bands, is if that scratches, you _cannot_ use a polishing cloth with PVD coatings, as that will cause a reaction and remove the coating itself.
Yeah im thinking of playing it safe and getting a silver XS. I love how I can polish it for 5 minutes and get it looking like new again. But the gold is so pretty! So tarnishing is real? Never thought about that on these phones.
Tarnishing is extremely rare on surgical stainless, you shouldn’t have any type of discoloration or fading with raw surgical stainless steel the Apple users on the silver bands. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but that would be a very strange (And rare) occurrence that would have to be caused by something more direct.
