iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

That&#x27;s a shame, and not something I&#x27;ve experienced with my Galaxy Notes of various generations. You&#x27;d think it would be tested for this sort of thing.<p>Though who knows, maybe some folks have had problems with these devices and it&#x27;s just not widely reported. Given the high profile launches and expectations of flawlessness from Apple (rightly or wrongly), it may well come under increased scrutiny.

The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting. It&#x27;s a slab of thin aluminium that has a large surface area, a consistent amount of pressure is going to cause bending. I&#x27;m personally surprised that the glass didn&#x27;t crack on some of the pictures.

I am hopeful that this will lead to a decline in skinny jeans, and I will be back in style.

This guy seems to exert a lot of force for it to bend.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM#t=34" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=znK652H6yQM#t=34</a><p>I can&#x27;t understand how having the same happen in your pants wouldn&#x27;t indicate that maybe you should take your phone out or adjust your trousers.<p>And I will beat you to the you are wearing your pants wrong joke.

I&#x27;m skeptical about the reporting, but the quotes are choice:<p><i>&quot;This is not an issue that Apple - or other phone companies - need to be compelled to respond to or fix. If anything this is a reflection of how people have started to use devices beyond what they were designed for,&quot;</i><p>What kind of absurd industry apologist do you have to be to assert flatly that there&#x27;s no reason people should be expecting their phones to hold up to <i>pockets</i>? I thought the whole reason people want thinner phones in the first place was so they fit better in their pockets.

Think about the person that waited in one of those long lines that I dont understand and now their walking around with a warped cell phone.<p>In all seriousness. Why do people stand in those lines? What can you do with the phone that you can&#x27;t do with another phone? Is it just a material thing?

So I just tested this on a few non-aluminium bodied phones, i.e., plastic and glass bodied phones. Plastic is more elastic (etymological irony) than aluminium and returns to its original shape.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t have believed if someone claimed my plastic-glass phone wasn&#x27;t perfectly straight when in my pocket, because I&#x27;d never witnessed it bent, and truly believed it sturdy enough to not easily bend.<p>I guess Apple&#x27;s miss was that aluminium is less elastic, and the larger&#x2F;taller your phone the more linear deflection it suffers.

Hipsters do wear very tight jeans.

Yep, bend a phone and it bends: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwdZzvCFhLo&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SwdZzvCFhLo&amp;feature=youtu.be</a>

It&#x27;s almost like they&#x27;d be better off making the glass less flexible so it would just crack when people bend it too much, and then they&#x27;d know they did the wrong thing. The fact that the phone can bend like this without breaking might mean they don&#x27;t realise that they&#x27;ve subjected it to an unreasonable amount of force.

It&#x27;s amazing that people think nothing can happen to a phone. Years ago I sold phones. People wanted money back because they drowned a Nokia in the toilet. Or complained the device stopped working after they dropped it from a great hight.<p>Nowadays people complain something will bend when you apply a lot of force to it.

Ungrateful peasants. They are privileged to use the world&#x27;s best phone and complain about such benign issues.<p>&gt; Clearly if I got the plus I&#x27;d never be able to sit at a table with it. This is bringing back the holster.<p>This should be the preferred way for hipsters to wear their apparel.

You&#x27;re not-holding it wrong.

It&#x27;s trending on Twitter in my area <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bendgate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;bendgate</a>

When the antena gate happens with iPhone 4 Apple gives bundle cases to their customers, I wonder if this time they will give new pants. :)

I think they should put a thicker battery in the iphone. why do cell phone need to be so thin? they are hard to hold.

It&#x27;s not really a pocketable phone. Even in my sweatpants (trendy!) it proved so heavy it ended up dragging them down past my ass in the style many kids are rocking nowadays, except I don&#x27;t rock the underwear or have the ass definition to pull off the look.<p>Like an iPad, it&#x27;s better placed in a bag. With everything else, really. Carrying stuff in your pockets is a pain in the arse and a great way to lose stuff.

48 points in 2 hours. Page 3. Why ?

Maybe the bending is a consequence of a better than average shock proof design. Not an apple fan boy here but I find hard to believe that a top selling phone would go on the market without extensive mechanical testing.

I thought that would be considered a feature!

Can wait for dialog &quot;it is a feature&quot; and response from competitors &quot;our phones do not bend&quot; :-)

So if you feel a pressure in you pocket, DO NOT REMOVE the phone.... Are people just plain dumbs or what?

What was the line again? &quot;Apple produces only high <i>quality</i> devices&quot; or something?