iPhone 12 Six-Foot Drop Test Results: Ceramic Shield More Durable But Not Damage Proof

john9876 said:
Interesting that they found the 12 to be more resistant to damage to the glass than the 12 Pro.

Presumably the aluminium sides are a slightly softer metal than the stainless steel ones and perhaps they absorb some of the impact.

Probably preferable to have a dented metal band than a cracked glass front or back!
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Also, the 12 is significantly lighter than the 12 Pro.
 
How did the iPhone 12 pro model do sooo much worse than the iPhone 12???
Like night and day different.
 
Serban55 said:
“No dmg proof”??
This is a phone not a construction thing
Nothing is dmg proof !
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If I see these videos of people smashing their phones to the ground on Youtube, trying to proof something, I am sure, quite a lot of customers are indeed expecting to be them "damage proof"...
 
All the drop tests I see on YouTube the pro did better.The aluminum sides get dinged up pretty bad. They seem to do really well compared to previous years. Most people couldn't break them without numerous head height or higher drops which never happens. Most common is knee height to waist.
Is this an add for allstate? Link the YouTube drop test macrumors....
 
I cannot be bothered to watch drop test videos, but if they performed a few hundred drops and quantified the results, distinguishing between phones which were damaged and undamaged before each drop, then I'll take them seriously. If they just did the usual nonsense of dropping one phone a couple of times then it's just an anecdote, not data.
 
john9876 said:
Interesting that they found the 12 to be more resistant to damage to the glass than the 12 Pro.

Presumably the aluminium sides are a slightly softer metal than the stainless steel ones and perhaps they absorb some of the impact.

Probably preferable to have a dented metal band than a cracked glass front or back!
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I wouldn't say it's of note. Drop test damage is random, depending upon whether it catches a corner, a side, the face, a pebble, etc. People who don't use cases MUST expect damage if dropped on a hard surface. Period. It will range from a scratch to bent metal to shattered glass. My iPhone X has been in a leather case for 3 years, dropped multiple times, including from a height of 9 feet onto a concrete basement floor and it will be exchanged for the full trade-in value with ZERO damage when I order my iPhone Mini or Pro Max (literally cannot decide between the two).
 
Curious why they went with a 6ft drop test. Somewhere in the 3-4.5 ft range seems like it would be a little more realistic for where a phone is most likely to be dropped from.
 
A ding in the side of my iPhone 12 Pro would bother me just as much as shattering the front or back which is why I opted to keep mine in a case.
 
chachawpi said:
The biggest complaints seems to be that as shatter resistance goes up scratch resistance goes down.
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That is true if you try to make glass more shatter resistant.
However, when switching to a different material (Glass Ceramics) then you can have both a higher shatter resistance and scratch resistance compared to glass.
The front cover on the iPhone 12 is not glass but a glass ceramic (the first fully transparant glass ceramic according to Corning, usually Glass Ceramics are opaque with a white shine in it). So it’s very well possible for it to have a higher shatter resistance and a higher scratch resistance at the same time when comparing to glass.

Not every material that looks like glass is glass.
 
Who drops their phone from 12 feet up? How often does that actually happen? Let alone 6 feet. Most of the time we’re holding the phone at our waist or chest level while using it. The only times I’ve dropped my phone has been when I forget it’s on my lap and I go to stand up, slingshotting it across the room haha.
 
MacAddict1978 said:
I’m over a glass back. It adds weight and doesn’t do much else. It was a bragging design element. And 98% of people are covering the back with a case.
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Really what material other than glass or plastic do you propose that would not impair you phone operability or weight ?

PS glad you have such accurate stats to hand on cases lol
 
Apple should reduce the price of their phones to $40 or $50 so the world could stop worrying so much about dropping them. Or maybe Velcro iGloves?
 
Glass is subject to break when dropped on the hard floor. Apple didn't claim it is indestructible.
We are used to see this on every iPhone release. Get over with it.
 
Would have been great to see these dropped when Apple cases are being used. Also, slightly disappointed in the iPad Air folios - unlike the older iPod Air folios, they do not cover the corners.
 
AirunJae said:
Curious why they went with a 6ft drop test. Somewhere in the 3-4.5 ft range seems like it would be a little more realistic for where a phone is most likely to be dropped from.
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LeadingHeat said:
Who drops their phone from 12 feet up? How often does that actually happen? Let alone 6 feet. Most of the time we’re holding the phone at our waist or chest level while using it. The only times I’ve dropped my phone has been when I forget it’s on my lap and I go to stand up, slingshotting it across the room haha.
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These. Drop tests should be 2.5-4.5 ft. Not 6. That doesn’t make any sense.
 
PlainviewUVGF said:
Cracked rear glass is almost double the repair cost of cracked front glass? That doesn't make sense.
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Sure it does. The front panel detaches from the phone easily. If its similar to the iPhone X, the rear glass is glued down to the back of the phone, and you have to take the entire phone apart to fix it. But I agree its frustrating, and they probably could have found a way to build it so that the back panel was easily replaceable.
 
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