Will iPhone 6s Plus Bend, Or Has Apple Finally Solved Bendgate?

Making every phone thinner than the previous generation has a downside that Apple was intimately familiar with last year. When the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launched last year, the technology they built into their thin exteriors, especially the unibody iPhone 6 Plus models, made waves.

Of course, when you have phones this thin, one of the things you can do is toss them in your pocket – because they’re so thin you quickly forget they’re there and act accordingly. Sitting, wearing jeans, you know, the usual.

As users soon learned, the iPhone 6, but especially iPhone 6 Plus was sadly easy to bend. The combination of the new design and thin aluminum, the Plus-sized iPhone began to bend left and right, often at the most dangerous stress point, on the left side of the phone, where the cutouts for the volume buttons were located.

Word spread and pictures of bent iPhones soon went viral and were tagged with the hashtag #bendgate. People were buying iPhones with the clear intention of twisting them on video and trying to fan the flames of controversy. For a short time, Apple replaced the affected units completely free of charge – but that didn’t last long. Finally #bendgate died – it’s not really over since Apple could do little to change the iPhone 6 design after it was released, but as people learned that they needed to be a little more precise on these particular iPhones.

Enter iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. just a few months agoWe’ve started hearing reports that Apple is moving to an entirely new aluminum alloy that is part of the stronger 7000 series alloys. When the new phones were announced earlier this month, the stronger aluminum frame was a non-trivial part of the announcement.

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And do you know? seems to have done huge The difference in the structural integrity of Apple’s newest and greatest iPhones. A few charming Kiwi guys did their best to bend the new iPhone 6s Plus:

Despite putting all the strength of one person behind it, it certainly did not manage to bend the phone permanently. Working together, the two were able to add a slight bend to the phone, but the iPhone 6s Plus seems completely immune to splitting in two, no matter how hard you press it.

Here’s another guy trying to crack the 6s Plus:

It looks a little luckier than the previous attempt, but still seems really hard to cause serious damage.

With the release of the new iPhone 6s Plus, packed with Apple’s new 7000 series aluminum alloy and ion-strengthened glass, I think we can officially declare #bendgate history – but remember: Apple is still selling last year’s iPhone 6 Plus at a discounted price and these models it will still be using 6000 series alloys and weaker glasses. If you end up grabbing one, you’ll still need to be careful and you should probably be using a 6 Plus in some sort of situation. But if you stick with the 6s Plus, you won’t have to worry about which pocket you use!