Durability is part of Apple’s arsenal to sell the iPhone 16. But despite all the good will in the world, a device made mostly of glass still doesn’t sit well with the ground.
L’iPhone 16 takes up a similar design from its predecessors: two slices of glass connected by a metal chassis. On the consumer models (16 and 16 Plus), it is aluminum, while the Pro devices are entitled to titanium. This sandwich has been reinforced this year with new generation Ceramic Shield for the two glass fronts.
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Glass is always fragile.
It is a glass-ceramic composite developed with the help of Corning (the creator of the famous Gorilla Glass), which integrates tiny ceramic crystals into the glass matrix. Introduced in 2020 with the iPhone 12, the Ceramic Shield formula has been revised and improved for the iPhone 16. This second generation is intended to be 50% more resistant than the previous one, ” and twice as strong as the glass of any other smartphone “, trumpet Apple.
But it doesn’t take much for the best speeches to crash against the cold wall of reality. In this case, the ground: the insurer Allstate used its DropBot robot to drop an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and unsurprisingly the glass shattered when the device fell from a height of 1.8 m.
When the smartphone falls on its screen side, it breaks and scratches appear on the titanium chassis. The smartphone is simply unusable. When the device falls on its back, the glass also breaks, there are splinters and the camera block is damaged. Nevertheless, it is still possible to use the iPhone, although of course it is not recommended.
In this regard, the iPhone is not the only smartphone to break after a fall, it is the case for all devices with glass subjected to the DropBot. A torture much more interesting than the sensationalist YouTube videos that destroy poor iPhone 16s with hammers or cutters. At least, it is about simulating a fall at the height of a man, something that can really happen on a daily basis…
To protect your investment, a case is more than recommended, and those who like to live dangerously can subscribe to an AppleCare+ warranty (starting at €169) which covers an unlimited number of incidents of accidental damage.
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