iPhone 12 Leather Case Product Pages Include Images Demonstrating MagSafe Imprint Wear

[Braderunner]

It’s not a bug, it is a feature!

Exactly! How else will everyone know that YOU...don't use just any old charger...YOU...have a MagSafe charger!

 

[69Mustang]

This is nothing like the scenario you posed. Leather comes from a cow, a natural product that wears over time. Everyone who buys a car with leather seats understands that they will crack, wear, and look worse during the course of ownership.

The pencil is manufactured from a non-natural human-engineered product, and it is reasonable to expect that they would be engineered to reduce wear from normal use. One would not expect it for it to deform from holding it (though this is the first I've heard of this issue, and I've personally never experienced this).

Heard of what? What exactly are you talking about? Are you confusing my analogous example with an actual anecdote? Apologies if it wasn't more clear.

 

[jcshas]

While I do enjoy the look of a leather phone case that shows wear and tear naturally, a definitive ring on the back does not make the case look better over time. And as far as people complaining about this because they new, Apple could simply not offer a magsafe case as another option. From all that I've read and seen, putting this feature on the phone is solving as issue that no one has. Apple literally said it will help to perfectly align a case on the phone... has anyone every said this is an issue? Or that they would rather have it perfectly align to a wireless charger and deal with having to remove it after each charge? The point of a wireless charger is that you can set it down and pick it up as you please. If you attach/detach it magnetically, why not just use the lightning cable since you still have to mess with a cable?

Fair enough but point is any object will potentially leave an imprint when placed against Leather. It’s no different than if I were to put a round object inside my leather wallet.

 

[doboy]

Apple's way of telling all the complainers to shut it

 

[tgwaste]

Shocking, leather wears when it's used

I mean is there anything Apple can do wrong in your book?

Sheesh.

This is nonsense and just adds to the terrible launch this year.

 

[tgwaste]

Fair enough but point is any object will potentially leave an imprint when placed against Leather. It’s no different than if I were to put a round object inside my leather wallet.

No... No it wouldn't. This is just wrong. Ive owned Apple Leather cases since iPhone 5 and this has never been a problem until now. 2 trillion dollars and this company still cant get wireless charging right which is ironic since they want to be a completely wireless company (and not give us usb-c while we wait).

 

[Duncan-UK]

It does remind me of the impression inside a wallet after the "you never know when you'll get lucky" condom has been in there for a couple of years!

 

[eNJayBe]

I actually like the look of it with the ring

 

[Iconoclysm]

This is so ridiculous. Apple keeps making products that will get damaged by other Apple products that have to be used together. This is one example. The Milanese loop and the SS Apple Watch is another.

This certainly doesn't count as damage. And really, "keeps making" when you can list one from 2014 and one from 2020 is really stretching it.

 

[ClockWork72]

Wow! Was really expecting to have to pay more for the leather case.

 

[toph2toast]

Fair enough but point is any object will potentially leave an imprint when placed against Leather. It’s no different than if I were to put a round object inside my leather wallet.

Thats fair, but thats on the user. Apple is selling a case with magnets, then saying if you use the magsafe charger (and I'm sure other magsafe accessories like the car mount) it will cause specific wear on the case. I give them props for being transparent about it, but it makes marketing this product a heck of a lot more difficult. The cases already have a premium price, now its going to have a ring imprinted on the back... no thanks.

 

[NMBob]

It's funny because Magsafe is literally a gimmick that makes the phone harder to pickup from its charger (charger comes with) and also imprints marks on your leather cases but also even on the silicon cases as metal shavings in your environment will stick to the magnets on the case and even on the back of your phone over time, even in quite clean environments pieces of iron in the air eventually collect.

Such a bizarre "feature" that pretty much makes the phone worse. I will never understand some of Apples decisions, honestly.

In New Mexico everything in the state (at least in the middle of the state) is covered with a layer of talcum powder-consistency ROCK, especially during the windy season which lasts from Jan to Dec. Just the charger sucking up to the back of the phone will scratch the heck out of any case or the phone itself.

Yes, I know talc is a rock.

 

[SamRyouji]

Never before there was a case that could give you a perfect, round circle patina from wear and tear.
🟤

 

[macsrcool1234]

How is this considered an "issue"?

the fact that there's a page dedicated to it?

 

[NMBob]

I actually like the look of it with the ring

Yeah, they should have just branded the logo and ring into the case so the phone could look like a cow.

 

[jcshas]

Thats fair, but thats on the user. Apple is selling a case with magnets, then saying if you use the magsafe charger (and I'm sure other magsafe accessories like the car mount) it will cause specific wear on the case. I give them props for being transparent about it, but it makes marketing this product a heck of a lot more difficult. The cases already have a premium price, now its going to have a ring imprinted on the back... no thanks.

I think it would be more of an issue for me if MagSafe charging was the ONLY charging option available for iPhone and fortunately it’s not. I’m still picking up my leather case today but I won’t be using MagSafe not because I’m concerned about it leaving an imprint on my leather case, but rather I think 1st gen MagSafe is sort of a novelty but I’ll save that for another forum.

 

[MacBH928]

release new product, never test it

 

[NMBob]

Exactly! How else will everyone know that YOU...don't use just any old charger...YOU...have a MagSafe charger!

Yup. The Kardashians will be holding their phones by the edges so you can see the ring. Pretty soon everyone will be.

 

[Maconplasma]

Ha I think it looks pretty cool with the circle around the Apple.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Already decided against this Mag Safe charger on any Apple case. My QI charger (hopefully) works fine. Unless that heats up at times creating an imprint??

I do wonder over time with wear in just your hand..will the circle imprint show up. That SHOULD take a much longer time though...so I'm not too concerned about that.

I also have to look online about drop tests of the new phones WITH this magnetic case. Does the case pop off after hitting the ground, bare phone freakishly bounces and hits concrete, scuffing up phones? (I know, Im thinking too much.)

 

[dojoman]

I think it looks cool reminds me of Apple Park. I’ts a feature.

 

[Apleeseed84]

I’m returning my MagSafe charger. Too many cons for this charger, cord too short, leaving marks on cases besides I have two other wireless chargers that I can use.

Same, apple controls the magsafe charger too much.

This is so ridiculous. Apple keeps making products that will get damaged by other Apple products that have to be used together. This is one example. The Milanese loop and the SS Apple Watch is another.

THIS!!!! Also one time I had a work iPhone XS and a personal xs in my pocket at one point and the cameras scratched out the screen of one insanely bad, it was like a sharp knife scrapped it. It’s surprisingly well how bad they do damage each out!

Wear is not the same as damage, but continue.

Day two of wearing my apple watch SS with the Milanese Loop, to my horror I was SHOCKED to find scratches on the watch. Whenever you take off your watch the band scratches the case and when I leave the watch and the loop just sitting there after all my years of owning an apple watch i have never seen the sapphire backing scratch from just sitting on a desk because the loop comes in contact with it.

I learned to take off the watch by literally prying the loop away from the case because it’s that bad.

The rest of my watch of is flawless 0 scratches around the case but if you look at where you pull up the loop its full Of it. My series 6 watch at this rate is not even two weeks old and has barely left the house. I had to switch to a sport loop to finally stop this issue. I mean even if you look at the Milanese loop you can clearly see a major design flaw, for some odd issue the top portion extends 3mm more and the bottom ”moving” portion of the loop is flushed with the case:

 

[1rottenapple]

Yup, Apple's way of protecting themselves against the frivolous lawsuit trolls.

im trade marking imprint-gate

 

[Cryates]

Day two of wearing my apple watch SS with the Milanese Loop, to my horror I was SHOCKED to find scratches on the watch. Whenever you take off your watch the band scratches the case and when I leave the watch and the loop just sitting there after all my years of owning an apple watch i have never seen the sapphire backing scratch from just sitting on a desk because the loop comes in contact with it.

I learned to take off the watch by literally prying the loop away from the case because it’s that bad.

The rest of my watch of is flawless 0 scratches around the case but if you look at where you pull up the loop its full Of it. My series 6 watch at this rate is not even two weeks old and has barely left the house. I had to switch to a sport loop to finally stop this issue. I mean even if you look at the Milanese loop you can clearly see a major design flaw, for some odd issue the top portion extends 3mm more and the bottom ”moving” portion of the loop is flushed with the case:

Okay? The watch wasn't the discussion here. I'm not saying that it can't happen with other products. But the leather case/magsafe example is wear, not damage.

 

[Chompineer]

Same, apple controls the magsafe charger too much.

THIS!!!! Also one time I had a work iPhone XS and a personal xs in my pocket at one point and the cameras scratched out the screen of one insanely bad, it was like a sharp knife scrapped it. It’s surprisingly well how bad they do damage each out!

Day two of wearing my apple watch SS with the Milanese Loop, to my horror I was SHOCKED to find scratches on the watch. Whenever you take off your watch the band scratches the case and when I leave the watch and the loop just sitting there after all my years of owning an apple watch i have never seen the sapphire backing scratch from just sitting on a desk because the loop comes in contact with it.

I learned to take off the watch by literally prying the loop away from the case because it’s that bad.

The rest of my watch of is flawless 0 scratches around the case but if you look at where you pull up the loop its full Of it. My series 6 watch at this rate is not even two weeks old and has barely left the house. I had to switch to a sport loop to finally stop this issue. I mean even if you look at the Milanese loop you can clearly see a major design flaw, for some odd issue the top portion extends 3mm more and the bottom ”moving” portion of the loop is flushed with the case:

This has been a known issue for a long time. It should come as no surprise that metal contacting metal will scratch. There’s no solution to this short of being careful.

Do your research and apply logic before making decisions, it will pay off.