Apple Clarifies Some Iphone 17 Pro 'scratches' Are Caused By Magsafe Stands

If you've heard that Apple's caller iPhone 17 Pro models are much prone to scratches than past models, nan communicative is not arsenic trim and barren arsenic it mightiness appear. Bloomberg reported connected September 19 that in-store iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro were already showing scratches, including information marks from wherever nan phones mounted connected MagSafe stands. Now Apple tells 9to5Mac those marks aren't scratches but alternatively "material transfer" from nan stands to nan assemblage of nan phone.

Apple's mentation suggests that simply cleaning demo iPhone 17 Pro units and replacing aged MagSafe stands will forestall those markings from happening successful nan future. That doesn't relationship for nan scratches immoderate iPhone 17 Pro owners person noticed around nan phone's camera bump, though. In a recent scratch trial video, YouTuber JerryRigEverything speculated that Apple's determination to not adhd a chamfer aliases fillet to nan sides of nan iPhone 17 Pro's camera bump near it much prone to damage. Through 9to5Mac, Apple says it designed nan Pro's aluminum camera bump successful nan aforesaid measurement arsenic its different aluminum products and that it's durable, but prone to "small abrasions" complete time.

So Apple has efficaciously denied 1 lawsuit of nan iPhone 17 Pro scratching and sidestepped another. Notably, astatine nary constituent successful 9to5Mac's reporting is Apple aliases a spokesperson really quoted, though, which mightiness propose nan institution isn't fresh to instrumentality to a azygous mentation for nan issues immoderate users are dealing with. Engadget has contacted Apple for much accusation and will update this article if we study more.

Switching from nan titanium framework of nan iPhone 16 Pro to nan unibody aluminum 1 connected nan iPhone 17 Pro lets Apple's caller telephone beryllium some much performant and connection longer artillery life. Aluminum does travel pinch a earthy drawback, though: It's little scratch-resistant than titanium. It's wholly imaginable reports of iPhone 17 Pro scratches are conscionable a measurement to compression a fewer much drops of attraction retired of Apple's launch, but if nan institution does person a problem, its prime of worldly mightiness beryllium nan cause.