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iPhone 16 Pro iPhone 16 pro: do you worry about damaging the camera
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I don’t worry or use any lens protection. Unless the lens protector is made of high quality multi-coated glass, then it will degrade the image quality of the camera if it isn’t precisely made optically. All of the cases I have offer good protection of the cameras. If you or anyone else prefers not to use a case, then that is when you must worry. The camera optics are completely exposed and prone to damage if the iPhone is dropped. I have never damaged a camera on an iPhone.
Never scratched the camera since getting iPhones in 2007. The camera uses sapphire which is the same as the Apple Watch Ultra and titanium models. Never had scratches on my titanium or ultra. For drops and regular uses it’s never been an issues. I think you’d have to hit the camera in a specific force to really crack it.
I Have a case on it, it's fine.
Phone bare naked keeps slipping off my hand lol that scares me more
Phone bare naked keeps slipping off my hand lol that scares me more
How can you do that? It’s hardened glass, not easy to be scratched. Just use a cover with a little height around the camera island (almost all of them).
Exactly. The Apple Silcone case with the raised lip around the camera island plus having Apple Care…total peace of mind.
I do not own the iPhone 16 model, but I do currently use the 11 Pro Max. Every smartphone I've owned since 2009 has been used without a case. There have been drops, two of them sufficient to warrant replacement, but none have ever damaged the camera. And I have never worried about that.
And for all the 'photography experience' of my phone (as OP puts it), I probably wouldn't notice even if there was damage. 99% of my pictures are either of stuff on store shelves so my wife can make a choice on what she wants me to bring home, stuff at home that I am posting on MacRumors or screenshots.
Of course, none of this is relevant if we are to assume the camera module on the iPhone 16 series is significantly more fragile than that of previous iPhone models. But based on the responses in this thread so far, I do not believe that is the case.
It is hard to damage the camera glass itself. The worst I have ever seen is when using the phone without a case, the steel/Ti “border” around the lenses will discolor as that is where the phone will rest against a flat surface.