I dropped a fairly heavy plastic lettuce knife on top of my new 6S+ yesterday from about 2 feet. Appeared to directly hit the middle of the screen with the end of the handle. No apparent damage. Just wondering if there's a chance of any damage that I'm not seeing. Is this Gorilla Glass basically created in such a way that unless there's a shatter or scratch, it's fine? I imagine the phone is built so that things like this shouldn't be a problem, including internals. It still seems to work perfectly fine. I have a Best Skins Ever screen shield on it, and I think it was resting on a stack of papers which may have provided some additional give. And with the 3D Touch, maybe it's been reinforced a bit to withstand more pressure to the front. I'm wondering how they test front impact for these iPhones.
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Direct impact but no apparent damage
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If it's not cracked and there's no LCD bleeding or issues with things swiping around randomly, it'll be fine.
great, thanks for the responses. i started getting OCD about it and wondering about microscopic damage to the internal parts, and about micro-fractures and stress in the glass, and started reading about the attomic lattice of gorilla glass versus standard soda lime, and on and on and on 
will be nice in a few weeks when i'm past this need-to-keep-new-phone-in-absolutely-perfect-shape-for-as-long-as-possible stage.
will be nice in a few weeks when i'm past this need-to-keep-new-phone-in-absolutely-perfect-shape-for-as-long-as-possible stage.It's working great and doesn't seem to have any of the issues some others are reporting. I think I got a good one and wouldn't want to take the chance on getting a dud and then going through a cycle of more returns. And I already activated my old 6 on my wife's line and need to process a trade-in through Verizon for her old 5 in order to get the full $200 before the 15th of October. And it was my fault for dropping the knife on the phone
I think it's ok. I dropped my 6 about a billion times. That thing even took a couple of tumbles all the way down our stairs. Still works great. The 6 seems to have some slight screen click, but that may have always been there. I'm guessing the new phone probably withstood the bang from the knife ok.