Mine is all scuffed but that's my doing. It took a tumble out of my pocket and met the concrete 
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Matte Black iPhone 7 Users Complain About Chipped, Peeling Paint
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Truth hurts. Deal with it. Also I seen many people keep their phones in the same pocket as keys and coins. They also use candy hard cases and tend to scape the screen with their nails.
There, I fixed it!
Well... at least it's not a expensive high-end rugged portable device.
Carrying a 800$ phone in your pocket together with keys always makes me think of driving a Lambo on an unpaved road. It can be done. But it certainly shouldn't.
So in plain English: A company selling a ~$700-$900 smartphone has faulty quality control.
Cars worth thousands of dollars have QC issues. Fighter jets worth millions of dollars have quality control issues. Just goes to show that even the best of us are human after all. You cannot make anything perfect. **** happens.
My Jet Black Plus is still beautiful
No it's not. Take it out in the sunlight and you might not be so sure about that.
I knew this matte finish would be a bad idea. Does the iPhonne 5 chip gate sound familiar? It's simply history repeating itself!
That's ironic, considering Apple's emphasis on style and appearance.
LOL! As if you'd accept chipping paint after 6 months on your $60,000 Mercedes E Class because "**** happens".
Also, it's not like Apple is giving out replacements over fixes over this like a Car Dealer would, so being human is not even the point.
I look after my devices, my iPhone 7 Plus is in a case, I don't keep keys in my pocket, I don't use cash generally, and I haven't dropped this device. I noticed what looked like a bit of bit of fluff on my device but when I went to move it with my finger (not nail), the coating literally came away. Bearing in mind that these devices are only a few months old, this is not how you would expect devices to look with normal wear and tear.
I contacted Apple on Twitter but they ignored the post. I then contacted them directly and they advised that I go to a store to get it checked. I haven't yet made it to a store as you have to book a week in advance and by the sounds of it, they wouldn't replace the device anyway as supposedly a cosmetic issue.
I was choosing between the jet black and matte black models and only the former had the warning about unusual wear and tear.
I contacted Apple on Twitter but they ignored the post. I then contacted them directly and they advised that I go to a store to get it checked. I haven't yet made it to a store as you have to book a week in advance and by the sounds of it, they wouldn't replace the device anyway as supposedly a cosmetic issue.
I was choosing between the jet black and matte black models and only the former had the warning about unusual wear and tear.
Could that be perhaps you're careless and the iPhone suffers damage because of your drops? Your reported problem has nothing to do with the article. That's self inflicted. If you drop something without protection, expect damage.
This article is referring to a possible manufacturing issue.
I don't have an iphone 7 but I wouldn't be bothered by a small blemish like that. My iPhone 5 had that blemish develop at the edges though I kept in the case but I didn't care because I was happy to finally have a phone that was working so well.
Thinking about all of the MB iPhone owners insecurely telling JB owners how superior their color is. Welpz..
Apple is anodizing its products and not using paint for a reason. This is clearly not a case of user abuse but a applying error. My 4th gen iPod Nano was heavily abused for 5 or 6 years with change and keys in the same pocket yet it had not suffered one single scratch. It still looks brand new if it was not for the one hour battery life. Oh and the dust under the screen.
Honestly, this is why you just go with Silver when you buy an iPhone and just shut up.
black / space grey, whatever they call the darker colours have always looked ****** with wear and tear ever since the iPhone 5.
black / space grey, whatever they call the darker colours have always looked ****** with wear and tear ever since the iPhone 5.
Thats not the point. The point is, just because a thing is expensive, does not mean it will be 100% defect free. No matter how rigorous the quality control measures are. That does not mean the quality control measures are faulty as suggested.
The chipping seems like a flaw in the anodizing and not user abuse. Considering Apple makes millions of iPhones, I'm not suprised that some of them have flawed anodizing.
The Black and Slate iPhone 5 was much much worse. My replacement iPhone 5 had chips in it and had to replace it again. If you looked at it wrong, it would chip. It was a beautiul phone and I'm happy that Apple went with a true black iPhone again.
The Black and Slate iPhone 5 was much much worse. My replacement iPhone 5 had chips in it and had to replace it again. If you looked at it wrong, it would chip. It was a beautiul phone and I'm happy that Apple went with a true black iPhone again.
