Apple defended against social media reports that its largest iPhone 6 bends.
LATE last year the world went crazy over a few videos that showed you could in fact bend your shiny new iPhone 6 Plus just by sitting on it.
Some users were so concerned, they went and made a screen protector to stop this happening.
Showing the protector off at CES in Las Vegas, a Korean tech company called Patchworks claims it can significantly enhance the durability of your iPhone and maybe, just perhaps, be the saviour to the world’s bendgate problem.
How you ask?
By adding even more glass.
The screen protector is a half millimetre thick piece of glass that uses silicon around the edges to try to stop the protector from ruining the design of the phone. The company claims it helps durability of the device by up to 45 per cent.
While it’s not really known what causes the iPhone to bend, the issue caused an uproar when users reported it in September, just after the iPhone 6’s release.
One person, identifying themselves as Hanzoh on the Macrumours forum, said he took his new phone to a wedding, which involved eight hours of driving, dancing and sitting at dinner.
“As I lay it on the coffee table and sat down on the couch to relax from the drive (yes, sitting again), I saw the reflection of the window in the iPhones slightly distorted.”
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— Dani (@missdanibagel) September 24, 2014While Apple eventually admitted that it was possible for the devices to bend, the company said that it doesn’t happen often.
“With normal use a bend in iPhone is extremely rare and through our first six days of sale, a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 Plus,” Apple said in a statement.
