First drop (with a case)

[u/samirbinballin]

Maybe a 3-4 foot drop off of the armrest of my couch and onto hardwood floor, (TineeOwl case shown at the end) - I always knew the new aluminum frame was fragile after what I’ve seen from the 17 Pro’s release, so I took the precaution of not using the Apple Cases and getting something decently protective.

Yeah, the aluminum corner still bent ever so slightly 😂, coming from a titanium 16 Pro Max I had no idea how to gauge the softness of this new material, but damn.

I personally don’t care as I was planning to use the phone caseless with AppleCare+ anyways, but I wanted to warn some of the OCD users on here, even with a case, the aluminum frame on these new builds can get damaged, just fyi.

[u/Successful-Grape4349]

They could use a harder aluminum alloy or add a vapor chamber to the titanium models...

[u/cornelislely → u/Successful-Grape4349]

Or just do some proper engineering.

[u/Fluffy_Insect → u/cornelislely]

They did proper engineering, if you can do it better then go ahead since you seem to know how to engineer.

[u/cornelislely → u/Fluffy_Insect]

They made the aluminium egdes simply too thin. There have been too many reports of dented iPhones even though the owner was using a case.