Back when the iPhone 5 first came out, there were a surprising number of reports of people whose iPhones suddenly bent themselves. This did not seem to be an issue with accidental damage en masse: most of the people who reported the issue noted that their iPhones bent back at the volume button, and hadn’t been kept in a back pocket or sat on.
It seems with the iPhone 5s, this mysterious predilection towards bending has returned.
Over at French site Nowherelse.fr, our good friend Steve Hemmerstoffer points out that bent iPhone 5s devices already seem to be popping up. And boy, are they bent.
On one hand, you’d expect for the iPhone 5s — which shares the same chassis as the iPhone 5 — to have the same structural issues as its predecessor. But this is a big structural fault to leave unfixed between two generations. Even if you do keep your iPhone in your back pocket and sit on it regularly, an iPhone made out of metal and glass folding in on itself like a bent boner is an engineering issue.
Has your iPhone 5s bent in your pocket since you purchased it? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Nowherelse.fr
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
39 responses to “iPhone 5s Bending In People’s Pockets”
I own an iPhone 5s and for last two months have had it safely secured in a life proof case . Within these two months I have dropped it only once and no damage was seen . Recently I pulled it out of the case and realized it was bent . It is Bent back starting where you insert the SIM card. The concave is seen throughout whole back . It looks as if the phone is popping out of it’s backing . This bend has caused the SIM card slot to pop out but no internal complications seem to be observed . This error needs to be addressed and fixed with the manufacturing .
I don’t even put my phone in my pants pockets and it bent. Still trying to figure out how it happened. Apple says “accidental damage” so I’m stuck with a bent $700 aluminum piece of junk.
Mine is and I don’t even put it in my pocket. I don’t even know how it is!
my Iphone 5s 16GB gold had a speaker problem for about month it use to crackle and go off and turning your phone on mute and off mute fixed it or if that didnt work you turn your handset off and on that always fixed it but that is no good for a £500 / £700 phone so i finally got round to taken it to apple ltd in newcastle on 9th april 2014 for a free repair under garentee witch usually would cost £37.50 witch this morning on 10th april 2014 i went play music and speaker was completely off and worse and wouldnt come back on at all and when i had a closer look in head phone jack with a light see if anything was stuck (even though was new speaker) (you never no lol) nothing was there but noticed it was bent hence how I found this topic googled bent iphone 5s in google this was top topic so now i need another travel to newcastle today (11th april 2014) and now i want a swop no arguements because my phone is worse since i taken it too apple
my daughters phone bent even with a phone cover on to protect it. at the local solihull branch the technician didn’t want to know and just said ,its not covered and would cost £260 to repair!! we had a talk lasting loudly for a few minutes so all asunder could hear ,i just asked her where she kept her phone — she told me they are not designed to be in your back pocket i said where is yours know errr yes in her back pocket —this is clearly a design fault from the start and the sides should not have been made of cheap aluminium.. i told her i have my iPhone 4 for nearly 4 years and no issues, well I’m up for renewal of 4 contracts soon, guess what? they won’t be apple..