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iPhone 14 Pro Max If you drop your 📱, does the components inside the phone loose or damage?
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Wouldn’t worry much, there are not a lot of moving components in these devices except for the Cameras and possibly the Taptic Engine, if your phone still vibrates fine and your camera is able to focus and keep the sensor stabilised I wouldn’t worry.
Is your phone in a case?
You should be fine then, don’t let it bother you.
It should be fine. Most of the parts are solid state and does not move. The camera stabilizer and taptic engine might shift, but they should be fine from pocket level.
There's always the possibility of small component de-soldering or disconnecting etc. , but after 16 years of making the iPhone, Apple has probably gotten good at building iPhones that resist well shocks from an internal component perspective.
Get AppleCare+ and you'll be alright ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Get AppleCare+ and you'll be alright ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use my 6 and 12 PM daily and have dropped both many times. I do keep both in cases, but both are unimpacted.
If you're curious, have a look at the innards: https://www.ifixit.com/News/65243/14-pro-max-teardown
Everything is very tightly packed. All connectors are secured, and supports each other. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for anything to move. The rest are soldered on, and those are very durable. The big mechanical parts will fail long before those solder connections separate.
Everything is very tightly packed. All connectors are secured, and supports each other. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for anything to move. The rest are soldered on, and those are very durable. The big mechanical parts will fail long before those solder connections separate.
As everyone said, you should be fine. The tolerances inside the phone means everything is solid with not very much room for movement at all. And all the components are either screwed down or glued in.
I dropped my 11 Pro Max from chest height in May. Landed on concrete, shattered the back and cracked the screen from underneath. But every component continued to function normally until I got it replaced.
I dropped my 11 Pro Max from chest height in May. Landed on concrete, shattered the back and cracked the screen from underneath. But every component continued to function normally until I got it replaced.
Yeah, I've shattered a screen before but the back glass on that 11PM took such an impact that it was almost as if I'd ground it up. Thankfully AC+ took care of it all.
No, they don’t shake loose, Apple will have thrown their phones around hundreds of not thousands of times in all sorts of ways to judge their quality and toughness. Same with iPads probably too. Because accidents happen. My iPhone XR has been dropped a few times and keeps going strong.
This is what Nokia did and probably still do, and you can be pretty certain Apple does exactly the same:
This is what Nokia did and probably still do, and you can be pretty certain Apple does exactly the same:
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I am going to report this post.If you're curious, have a look at the innards: https://www.ifixit.com/News/65243/14-pro-max-teardown
Everything is very tightly packed. All connectors are secured, and supports each other. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for anything to move. The rest are soldered on, and those are very durable. The big mechanical parts will fail long before those solder connections separate.
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The correct answer is yes, it can damage the logic board. Many people think because everything is solid state, there can’t be anything that gets knocked loose. That’s wrong.
The soldering joints and connectors are sensitive to shocks. They were not designed for mechanical shocks. That’s why many of the chips on the logic board are bonded with underfill for better protection. However, the solder joints that hold the stacked logic board don’t have any filler material and can be torn off with a single drop. Same thing with any of the connectors on the logic board.
The soldering joints and connectors are sensitive to shocks. They were not designed for mechanical shocks. That’s why many of the chips on the logic board are bonded with underfill for better protection. However, the solder joints that hold the stacked logic board don’t have any filler material and can be torn off with a single drop. Same thing with any of the connectors on the logic board.
