iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days

[braintumor]

"So while it may technically fit in your pocket, I'd say you do so at your own risk."

You are serious right?

Here is a study by Nokia, showing carrying options for mobile-phones:
https://research.nokia.com/files/45590483.pdf

It shows that 60% of Men carry their mobile phones in trouser pockets, while only 16% of women do so (instead the study shows that women mostly carry them in bags).

This also reflects what I see every day in real life with people.

Like I said before, while the new iphone 6+ might be a little uncomfortable to wear in your pocket because of its size, it should NOT bend/break!

Imagine if Tim Cook had said at the keynote:
"Here is the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but while it may technically fit in your pocket, I'd say you do so at your own risk."

These arguments are ridiculous!!! Switch on your brain!

 

[JoeG4]

Three or four people have posted in this same thread that their phones are bent too.

That happened with the 5S too, and a lot of people yelled at them and pretty much treated them as witches lol.

 

[Sfitzp2]

What size dude?

??? I ordered the 6+. I'm 5'9" if that's what you are asking.

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You are serious right?

Here is a study by Nokia, showing carrying options for mobile-phones:
https://research.nokia.com/files/45590483.pdf

It shows that 60% of Men carry their mobile phones in trouser pockets, while only 16% of women do so (instead the study shows that women mostly carry them in bags).

This also reflects what I see every day in real life with people.

Like I said before, while the new iphone 6+ might be a little uncomfortable to wear in your pocket because of its size, it should NOT bend/break!

Imagine if Tim Cook had said at the keynote:
"Here is the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but while it may technically fit in your pocket, I'd say you do so at your own risk."

These arguments are ridiculous!!! Switch on your brain!

Yes! The arguments from some people are so ridiculous it's hard to tell if they are serious or just a bunch of trolls.

 

[enricopalazzo]

Aluminium is soft, less scratch resistant and when you bend it, it does not go back to its original form.
When you decide to buy an aluminium phone, you have to live with that. Just like you won't use it without a cover and complain about the scratches afterwards.
If apple would use plastic, ppl will complain that it feels too cheap, if they use an other metal, they might complain it is too heavy.

If they would have made the iphone a little thicker and the back more round, it might have been more stable, but at 5.5 inch it will still bend, i guess.

 

[Hoyboy]

I'm starting to think that all these people that are sticking up for Apple are doing so because they are shareholders of the company. I fail to see a reason why a customer would take the side of a massive corporation over another fellow customer when there is a clear fault with some of these phones.

Mind you they could just be trolling...

 

[dfran1]

These arguments are ridiculous!!! Switch on your brain!

This is a phablet,

Not your normal smaller phone, even the S3 and S4 had issues like this (and smaller), but apparently you don't know how to use your own words.

It is a HUGE phone and very THIN , what between your ears would you expect?

Look people I am done with this, I spoke my words, you don't want to listen then you get what is coming.

Call Apple and post what they tell you, if they replace it once great, but a second time, kiss their feet, third = good luck!!!

Samsung told those who called them "NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY"

 

[Bazilemac]

This is a phablet,

Not your normal smaller phone, even the S3 and S4 had issues like this (and smaller), but apparently you don't know how to use your own words.

It is a HUGE phone and very THIN , what between your ears would you expect?

Look people I am done with this, I spoke my words, you don't want to listen then you get what is coming.

Call Apple and post what they tell you, if they replace it once great, but a second time, kiss their feet, third = good luck!!!

Samsung told those who called them "NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY"

I've had a s3 and s4 and they never bent. Lol. I can't with you most of you guys trying to justify a phone bending.

 

[eelw]

To the two people that have bent their phone in this topic. Next time in your car, check to see if the bend occurs right where your leg meets the steering wheel. I'm betting it will.

 

[GoLeafsGo]

Theres such a simple solution to this---put it in your back pocket!

I'm a woman who absolutely abhors carrying purses or bags so I always put everything in my jean pockets. Unless you've got a lot of junk in your trunk, or wearing extremely tight skinny jeans, there should be room for a 6+ back there. Just dont sit on it, obviously.

There are also hoodie pockets! I bet most of a 6+ could fit in a mens dress shirt pocket as well.

It shouldn't bend, but until Apple figures out how to make it less bendable y'all should take more precaution unless you want to keep going to the apple store for replacements.

 

[mavis]

Theres such a simple solution to this---put it in your back pocket!



I'm a woman who absolutely abhors carrying purses or bags so I always put everything in my jean pockets. Unless you've got a lot of junk in your trunk, or wearing extremely tight skinny jeans, there should be room for a 6+ back there. Just dont sit on it, obviously.



There are also hoodie pockets! I bet most of a 6+ could fit in a mens dress shirt pocket as well.

In other words, you're pocketing it wrong?

C'mon - I've been using iPhones since 2008. I shouldn't have to change which pocket I keep it in just because it's now too flimsy to be kept in a pocket!

 

[Bobo03]

To the two people that have bent their phone in this topic. Next time in your car, check to see if the bend occurs right where your leg meets the steering wheel. I'm betting it will.

I usually put my phone in cup holder, passenger seat if empty.

But, I couldn't get the steering wheel to touch any phone left in my front pocket.

 

[braintumor]

This is a phablet,

Not your normal smaller phone, even the S3 and S4 had issues like this (and smaller), but apparently you don't know how to use your own words.

It is a HUGE phone and very THIN , what between your ears would you expect?

Look people I am done with this, I spoke my words, you don't want to listen then you get what is coming.

Call Apple and post what they tell you, if they replace it once great, but a second time, kiss their feet, third = good luck!!!

Samsung told those who called them "NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY"

We are not talking about Samsung here, but Apple! Apple is known for quality products and therefor asks for quality prices!

You and others can make excuses all you want and call it a phablet, but Apple still calls this iPhone! The 6+ is just a bigger iphone!

I would not buy the 6+ because for me it is too big and would be too uncomfortable in daily use and I guess it would be uncomfortable in general to have such a big phone in your pocket, but it still should not bend or break because somebody carries it in his pocket (like 60% of men do).

In general I (and many others) question Apples development to try so hard to make the iphones thinner. There are obvious disadvantages that come with ever thinner devices, one of them is the structural integrity others are:
- smaller battery
- slippery handling

Why not keep the iphone6 at around 7.5mm and instead increase the battery and make it stiffer. I don't think I heard anyone complain about the iPhone 5(s) being too thick.

 

[GoLeafsGo]

In other words, you're pocketing it wrong?

C'mon - I've been using iPhones since 2008. I shouldn't have to change which pocket I keep it in just because it's now too flimsy to be kept in a pocket!

Shouldn't have to, but thats the consequence of the situation. You put it in your front pocket, you risk bending. Thats how apple made it, so unless you want to keep replacing it you might as well put less tension on it. Who knows when they will have a fix for it, if at all.

 

[Lictor]

If that is the case
1. the 6 plus is not for pocket use
2. return and get a 6 not a plus
I don't see any other resolution, Maybe a good case maybe?

I don't think it's a good solution, since the 6 will certainly have the same problem : it is less long, but it is also less wide, so there is no reason to think it is more resistant to bending.

Another solution is :
1. Find that phone is bent
2. Ask for an exchange under warranty or Apple Care+. This is a defect, Apple knows it and the warranty applies
3. Put phone back into pocket, where a phone belongs
4. Repeat if problem appears again

It's not a problem with Apple. And it's not a problem with me : restoration is fast and most of my data is in the cloud anyway, so I can get a new phone monthly if I need to.
I have a MacBook Retina with ghosting, and I know I will be able to exchange it before the end of my AppleCare (and I will probably be able to get an upgrade in the process). Some people with ghosting have gone through a dozen of exchanges, so it's not like Apple puts a limit to how many defective products you can go through, it will just keep exchanging the device as many times as you care for...

As an alternative, someone in the US will probably start a class action and everyone will get a free hard case. But if the phone cannot sustain regular phone use without a hard case, it would have been easier to build the extra thickness into the phone. I have a 4S, it's not too thick, but it certainly doesn't bend. Same for my old iPad.

 

[mavis]

Shouldn't have to, but thats the consequence of poor design.

There, I fixed your post.

Look, if Jony Ive is all about 'intimate familiarity with the materials used in manufacturing' and all that BS, he should've come up with a way to strengthen the frame to prevent bending with such minimal force. This is clearly form over function, and poor design - I may be a fan of Apple and own lots of Apple devices, but there's no need to be an Apple apologist here. People put their phones in their pockets (just go back and watch SJ introduce the first iPhone if you doubt that) and there's an expectation that doing so will not cause the phone to become permanently bent.

 

[soundxplorer]

Again with you newbie. I'll take logic lessons from you...never. It's a phone. People put them in pockets. Get over it.

Newbie, everyone here would be saying the same thing if it were an android phone. It shouldn't bend in a front pocket. Full stop.

Hmm, seems to be some misunderstanding going on here, because I think we're saying the same thing. I keep my phone in my pocket all the time, as I've said in this thread already. I agree that no one should expect a phone to be constructed in a way that easily bends in a pocket. That's why I'm probably going to stick with the 5c.

 

[SirLance99]

I don't think it's a good solution, since the 6 will certainly have the same problem : it is less long, but it is also less wide, so there is no reason to think it is more resistant to bending.

Another solution is :
1. Find that phone is bent
2. Ask for an exchange under warranty or Apple Care+. This is a defect, Apple knows it and the warranty applies
3. Put phone back into pocket, where a phone belongs
4. Repeat if problem appears again

It's not a problem with Apple. And it's not a problem with me : restoration is fast and most of my data is in the cloud anyway, so I can get a new phone monthly if I need to.
I have a MacBook Retina with ghosting, and I know I will be able to exchange it before the end of my AppleCare (and I will probably be able to get an upgrade in the process). Some people with ghosting have gone through a dozen of exchanges, so it's not like Apple puts a limit to how many defective products you can go through, it will just keep exchanging the device as many times as you care for...

As an alternative, someone in the US will probably start a class action and everyone will get a free hard case. But if the phone cannot sustain regular phone use without a hard case, it would have been easier to build the extra thickness into the phone. I have a 4S, it's not too thick, but it certainly doesn't bend. Same for my old iPad.

This is not a defect. It's people not taking care of their phones properly.

 

[eelw]

In other words, you're pocketing it wrong?

C'mon - I've been using iPhones since 2008. I shouldn't have to change which pocket I keep it in just because it's now too flimsy to be kept in a pocket!

But when the physical profile has significantly changed over the life of the iphone, can't expect to maintain this either.

 

[mavis]

But when the physical profile has significantly changed over the life of the iphone, can't expect to maintain this either.

The phone still fits in my pocket, which seems to have been the point of making it so ridiculously thin. So that's where it goes.

Where do you suggest I carry my phone? A fanny pack?

 

[dfran1]

You and others can make excuses all you want and call it a phablet,

I am sorry I need to post this one last thing. Unless you are smarter than Wikipedia?

Phablet

In tracing the 10 earliest devices in the history of the phablet concept, PC Magazine called the 1993 AT&T EO 440, "the first true phablet",[16] followed by the following devices:

2007 HTC Advantage (5.0 inch screen)
2007 Nokia N810WiMAX Edition (4.13" screen)
2009 Verizon Hub (7.0" screen)
2010 LG GW990 (4.8" screen)
2010 Dell Streak (5.0" screen)
2011 Dell Streak 7 (7.0" screen)
2011 Acer Iconia Smart (4.8" screen)
2011 Samsung Galaxy Player 5 (5.0" screen)
2011 Pantech Pocket
2011 Samsung Galaxy Note (5.3" screen)
2014 Iphone 6 plus (5.5" screen)

 

[Indian Devil]

Its Apple's fault fullstop. Where are we supposed to put the phone if not in the pocket? Along with ipad, iphone 4 and 5s, I own a Gionee 5.5 too which is the slimmest phone in the world and always keep it in the front pocket of my jeans and guess what I have had no problems ever…

Stop defending Apple when its clearly their fault.

 

[Retired Cat]

Having skimmed through the entire thread, it's not clear to me that the phones in question were not in fact bent at the factory and shipped in this condition. It's possible to not notice such a thing for several days.

The key issue is whether this is a design problem or a manufacturing problem. It could be that the unibody frames of some 6+ units were machines from a defective block of aluminum, or that there's an issue with a CNC machine. If the problem is widespread it could indicate a more serious design issue.

One other possibility is that the design is fine, but that the tolerances are so tight that even slight manufacturing issues cause problems. In any case, the 5 and 5S were known to occasionally bend, so I hope that Apple was at least cognizant of the issue when designing the 6/6+.

 

[0007776]

This is not a defect. It's people not taking care of their phones properly.

If it is bending with normal use, which carrying it in a pocket is, it is a defect whether or not you or Apple want to admit it.

 

[geoff5093]

This is a phablet,

Not your normal smaller phone, even the S3 and S4 had issues like this (and smaller), but apparently you don't know how to use your own words.

It is a HUGE phone and very THIN , what between your ears would you expect?

Look people I am done with this, I spoke my words, you don't want to listen then you get what is coming.

Call Apple and post what they tell you, if they replace it once great, but a second time, kiss their feet, third = good luck!!!

Samsung told those who called them "NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY"

Sure, the S3 and S4 could bend, but they were plastic... So after you had fun bending them, they would go right back to their original state. That's not a reason to give a pass to Apple for making phones that bend so easily, knowing they will be bent permanently.

 

[braintumor]

I am sorry I need to post this one last thing. Unless you are smarter than Wikipedia?

Phablet

Jeez man, it's ridiculous how hard you try with all kinds of dumb arguments to defend that a bigger iphone (call it phablet whatever you want), should break or bend under normal use.

Carrying a phone in your front pocket (no matter if big or small) should NOT result in breaking or bending.

If Nokia's study shows that 60% of Men carry their mobile phones in their pockets, then it shows that this clearly is a normal use situation for any kind of mobile phone! I guess that Apple also conducted similar studies with similar results.
If a big phone is uncomfortable for you to use/carry, then its a question of preference, just like some people don't like gold phones.
If a phone breaks/bends under normal use conditions then its a quality or design problem and should be adressed by the company. Especially for a company like Apple that puts quality standards very high on its list and is considered to be the best out there!