Ifixit Zooms In On Reports Of An Iphone 17 Pro Scratch Problem

The iPhone 17 Pro successful Cosmic Orange.

Apple’s new, anodized aluminum iPhone 17 Pro phones person drawn attraction for reportedly being easy to scratch astir nan camera “plateau,” and iFixit has investigated nan rumor successful microscopic item successful its teardown video for nan phones.

Here are immoderate pictures showing conscionable what those scratches look for illustration nether a integer microscope:

iFixit talked to David Niebuhr, an technologist and professor of mechanical engineering, who has an mentation for why scratches astir nan iPhone 17 Pro’s camera plateau instrumentality retired truthful overmuch pinch spalling harm that didn’t look successful tests of different areas. According to Niebuhr, nan problem is nan crisp separator of nan camera bump wherever nan anodization process isn’t arsenic even, arsenic he says, “Apple could person prevented this by making a much gradual curve and avoiding a comparatively crisp corner.”

iFixit adds that unless you put your iPhone 17 Pro successful a case, nan camera plateau is “probably going to spot immoderate damage” astatine immoderate constituent during its lifetime. As for repairability, iFixit gives Apple in installments for a screwed-in battery, but criticized requiring users to region nan surface for astir repairs — thing Apple avoided connected nan new iPhone Air.