Picture from a drop check recorded by Apple Monitor.
Did the drop check again up Apple’s declare? We’ll get to that later. The primary drop was a pants pocket size drop on the aspect of the telephones. Regardless that this wasn’t a lot of a fall, the underside of each telephones suffered some beauty accidents within the type of small dents. The following drop, from chest excessive on the perimeters of the telephones additionally resulted in some harm to the underside of the handsets, particularly on the iPhone 16 Professional. Take into account that these telephones are touchdown on concrete.
Is Apple’s new second-gen Ceramic Defend actually 50% stronger?
So whereas the iPhone 15 Professional was nonetheless operating after taking principally the identical blows because the iPhone 16 Professional, it was the newer unit that was knocked out of fee. Kohl’s concept, which does make sense, is that the 30% smaller bezels are leaving the show on the iPhone 16 Professional extra susceptible within the corners.
The chest-high again drop led each telephones to shatter the rear glass in a nook producing the spider net crack that many people are accustomed to. The following check, the head-high again drop, did some critical harm to the iPhone 15 Professional whereas the iPhone 16 Professional held up higher.
That takes us to the screen-down drops that are those that the majority iPhone customers are thinking about. From waist excessive, the iPhone 16 Professional had a big scratch alongside the aspect of the show. The iPhone 15 Professional had smaller harm within the higher nook however in any other case was okay. Amazingly, the iPhone 15 Professional had no downside with the waist-high screen-down drop whereas the iPhone 16 Professional noticed the cracks on its show lengthen.
The tenth drop of the day was an above-the-head screen-down fall that noticed the iPhone 16 Professional undergo slightly extra harm within the areas the place it had beforehand cracked whereas the iPhone 15 Professional was nonetheless holding on. As Kohl seen by this level, the corners seem like the iPhone 16 Professional sequence’ Achilles heel this 12 months.
So what lesson can iPhone customers take from this drop check?
Trying to see how excessive the iPhone 15 Professional must fall to crack the display, each telephones had been dropped from a a lot greater distance estimated to be 12-13 toes. That fall lastly made the ceramic protect on the iPhone 15 Professional increase the white flag and give up. Regardless that the iPhone 16 Professional show stopped working a number of drops in the past, after that final check the display on the brand new mannequin held up higher total maybe giving credence to Apple’s assertion that the brand new Ceramic Defend is 50% stronger than the earlier technology which was used on the iPhone 15 Professional.
Trying to see how sturdy the Ceramic Defend is, each telephones had been dropped from an excellent greater distance. As soon as once more, the iPhone 15 Professional display shattered leaving sharp edges; whereas the iPhone 16 Professional show was additionally cracked, the harm was extra confined to a selected space and was nonetheless clean sufficient to run a finger throughout it. So even greater Sam went with the telephones. And whereas the iPhone 16 Professional show took it on the chin with the subsequent fall, it actually took it on the chin and the harm was contained there.
each shows side-by-side, you actually can see the distinction within the Ceramic Display screen safety for each telephones. Outdoors of the early hit that stopped the show from engaged on the iPhone 16 Professional, the second-generation Ceramic Defend does seem like stronger than the first-generation.
