YouTuber Pushes iPhone Air to Restrict in Bend Take a look at, ‘Shocked’ at End result

When Zack Nelson — a.okay.a. YouTube’s JerryRigEverything — tried to bend the iPhone Air, it harm his fingers.

Apple desires to show that its thinnest telephone is sturdy. The firm’s execs challenged interviewers to attempt to bend the telephone. Apple stated the gadget “exceeds Apple’s stringent bend strength requirements” and is “more durable than any previous iPhone,” in a release when it unveiled the gadget.

Nelson has amassed over 9 million followers for poking, prodding, and scratching varied gadgets. He just lately tested the iPhone Air and was shocked by how a lot stress it may face up to. He posted a video of the experiment titled, “iPhone Air Durability test — I AM SHOCKED.”

Putting the iPhone Air on its aspect, Nelson tried bending it from each instructions. Bending from the again brought on “freaking nothing,” he stated. Bending from the entrance, Nelson discovered a little bit of “curvature,” however the telephone’s titanium construct brought on it to return to “straight as it was coming out of the box a few minutes ago.”

The iPhone Air has a titanium body, like most of Apple’s telephones because the iPhone 15. The iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, which dropped the identical day because the iPhone Air, revert to aluminum frames.

“The iPhone Air has no business being this indestructible,” Nelson stated. “Both my thumbs now hurt, along with my pride. The iPhone Air 100% passes my durability test.”

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To quantify the stress beneath which the iPhone Air would break, Nelson positioned the telephone beneath two bars after which pulled up with a tool that measured power.

At 171 kilos of stress, he heard a crack, however the display stayed intact. At 216 kilos, the telephone snapped, although the again glass stayed intact.

That’s much more power than the iPhone 6 may deal with. Some customers discovered they might bend it with human power, resulting in the corporate’s BendGate controversy in 2014.

That 216 kilos of power that snapped the iPhone Air was utilized to at least one level within the middle of the telephone, and never throughout the gadget’s floor space, Nelson stated. So no, you most likely will not bend your iPhone Air by sitting on it.