Well, if you have Applecare then they will cover the accidental damage caused by your sitting on the phone for a fee of $79. If you are mistakenly calling the standard warranty "Applecare" then you're SOL.
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Today I just realized my iPhone 6 is bent. Apple Care saying not their problem.
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Well, if you have Applecare then they will cover the accidental damage caused by your sitting on the phone for a fee of $79. If you are mistakenly calling the standard warranty "Applecare" then you're SOL.
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The problem is what is defined as normal use.
For me, the iPhone 6 is thinner and bigger. So I can't treat it the same way as the iPhone 5/5s. I am not sure why that is such a big deal for so many people.
If you want the treat it the same why then get a 5c,windows phone, or even some variation of an android phone.
To expect a thinner and larger phone to be exactly like the previous design is silly IMO.
To the Op, I'm sorry to see there are a lot of folks giving you a hard time here. I, for one, believe your story. You do need to pursue this issue, even to the highest level, if needed. Apple needs to make good on their products. If it turns out there is some kind of flaw, Apple is really just slowing down the inevitable.
More than likely, there was a flaw in manufacturing that effecting a small portion of phones. That is why we have the, "I've had my phone for two weeks and I have skinny jeans and I put it in my back pocket and I weight 633 pounds" posts, but then we have some folks who say they treated their iPhone well but it bent anyway. There can be a legitimate contradiction if there is a difference in manufacturing, and with such a large number of phones it's probably impossible for their *not* to be a difference.
Good luck, and please keep us up to date on how it goes. If Apple is reading this, the quicker you resolve these scenarios, the better it will be for you. Don't allow posts like this to continue. Shut it down by helping this guy out quickly and efficiently.
More than likely, there was a flaw in manufacturing that effecting a small portion of phones. That is why we have the, "I've had my phone for two weeks and I have skinny jeans and I put it in my back pocket and I weight 633 pounds" posts, but then we have some folks who say they treated their iPhone well but it bent anyway. There can be a legitimate contradiction if there is a difference in manufacturing, and with such a large number of phones it's probably impossible for their *not* to be a difference.
Good luck, and please keep us up to date on how it goes. If Apple is reading this, the quicker you resolve these scenarios, the better it will be for you. Don't allow posts like this to continue. Shut it down by helping this guy out quickly and efficiently.
Today I just realized my iPhone 6 is bent. Apple Care saying not their problem.
Sure it will..... http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-profit-decline-2014-10
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You're a genius!!
Surely enough every iteration of the iPhone has become thinner and thinner...
Time to adapt folks and stop thinking you can just sit on your thin phone and Apple has to design it so you can continue to do that....what a joke!!!
Sure it will..... http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-profit-decline-2014-10
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You're a genius!!
Surely enough every iteration of the iPhone has become thinner and thinner...
Time to adapt folks and stop thinking you can just sit on your thin phone and Apple has to design it so you can continue to do that....what a joke!!!
I'm sure people that have experienced the problem didn't feel they were abusing a more durable phone previously.
You can only expect more problems if you had problems to begin with.
Example, someone that slightly bent an iPhone 5 would be more prone to take better care of a larger thinner device based on your above reasoning.
However if their 5 is in mint condition then you can't expect people would change their behavior.
they are. The genius who took my bent 6+ said they are sending them to a special engineering department to further investigate the problem.
Do you sit down when it is in your front pocket, or do you take it out before you sit?
I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to, but chances are, sitting with it in the front OR back pocket (depending on the way you put it in your pocket to begin with) applies force in just the right (weakest) spot to cause bending.
Just speculating here...I don't own an iPhone 6 at the moment.
But I wonder...why is bendgate so prominent in the case of iPhone 6 ? The 5 bent too...there were some posts around it. But 6 has more than a few posts.
Anyway, I have worked in software long enough to know that you can never be too sure of anything in a complicated design. Just because I can't fathom it happening does not mean that it can't happen! What is BS is folks just refusing to even acknowledge the possibility of a structural flaw in the iPhone 6...perhaps only in a batch of phones? Surely, you do not believe that Apple is above developing phones with manufacturing/design defects ?
"i broke my phone and it broke now i want someone else to take responsibility for it!"
get outta here.
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"we've determined the problem. people are idiots, and think metal is indestructible, and that you should be able to treat anything however you want with no expectations of failure."
seriously, when someone crashes in a car do they blame the car for the dent?
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man. the entitlement is strong with some people.
get outta here.
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"we've determined the problem. people are idiots, and think metal is indestructible, and that you should be able to treat anything however you want with no expectations of failure."
seriously, when someone crashes in a car do they blame the car for the dent?
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man. the entitlement is strong with some people.
I would take it back. It's not your fault it bent. There's consistency is this area/region of the 6 that's very weak causing it to bend; coming from all photos I've seen. Did you purchase AC?
I can't help but notice you come in very quickly on many threads containing legitimate criticisms. Interesting.
In any case I and many others are taking a different approach: rather than trying to "adapt" our lives to the possible POS build quality of the 6/6+, we choose to forgo iPhone6, at least for now until this is all sorted out, and get on with our normal lives.
The unfortunates who ended up spending so much money because they fell prey to the giant PR machine will likely eventually get a $20 coupon as a result of the settlement from the inevitable class action suit, towards the next iPhone. Or maybe Apple can stand up, show some balls, address this head on, fix the problem, take the financial hit, and get some good will in the process
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Also I suspect now, after looking at a lot of pictures, that a simple solution may be to just forgo the Apple logo cutout and just laser etch it instead. This would save manufacturing costs too and hardly anyone would notice the change.
How do you know that?
People seem to have an interesting view of what "normal usage" is.
everything is someone else's fault these days.
of course not.....its Uri Geller's fault.
seriously
Obviously it is the OPs fault he bent his phone. Last time I checked, phones don't just bend themselves - although if you wanted to place some quantum mechanical odds on spontaneous bending, it's probably around 10^-30.... But he is looking for someone else to blame because he's probably not in the 10^-30.
Next time be more careful with your new large, thin phone. Everyone wants large, thin phones. Look at the physics. Bigger phone means the forces can be applied on the ends. R cross F is torque and now R is larger than it used to be. Thus more torque on your phone, easier to bend it. And to add to it, they are skinnier now so they can't withstand as much torque either. Double whammy. So you have to be much more careful with it.
You all asked for this when you wanted phablets. My iPhone 5S is still great
To add 1 thing: consumer reports came out and said you really have to try to bend these things... Not insinuating anything here. But just saying...
Next time be more careful with your new large, thin phone. Everyone wants large, thin phones. Look at the physics. Bigger phone means the forces can be applied on the ends. R cross F is torque and now R is larger than it used to be. Thus more torque on your phone, easier to bend it. And to add to it, they are skinnier now so they can't withstand as much torque either. Double whammy. So you have to be much more careful with it.
You all asked for this when you wanted phablets. My iPhone 5S is still great
To add 1 thing: consumer reports came out and said you really have to try to bend these things... Not insinuating anything here. But just saying...
I'm waiting for a major tech site editor, like ars or 9to5 to take the risk and say that with their normal usage, their sample bent too. Right now they're probably too afraid of the repercussions.
Yeah thin aluminum combined with a bigger frame. More torque can be applied to the ends and it can't withstand as much to begin with cause it's thinner.
No surprise that phones are bending, just simple elementary physics.
Something happened. What? It seems like you should be able to figure out what it was. A bend like that is not trivial. It didn't "just happen." There was some singular event that caused it. There had to be. How did you bend it?
Great. And here I was just starting to feel more comfortable about the situation. iPhone 6 here, no bends, but I do find myself taking it out of my case just to keep my paranoia in check.
Also, I'm sure he had to bump into something with it in his pocket or his pants are super tight and he went to the squat rack. I'm a big guy and I know some pressure has been put on it while in my pocket, but mine is fine.
Someone see if he has a YouTube account and did a bend test!
Also, I'm sure he had to bump into something with it in his pocket or his pants are super tight and he went to the squat rack. I'm a big guy and I know some pressure has been put on it while in my pocket, but mine is fine.
Someone see if he has a YouTube account and did a bend test!
You should have filmed this.
It would have been great to see how a phone was able to bend all by itself.
So it's impossible that there could have been a quality control problem at the factory?
Absurd.