The credit for this discovery goes to Motherboard after it painstakingly dug through internal documents Apple released in court as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company for touchscreen failures known as ‘Touch Disease’ caused by iPhone bending.
The revelation: Apple knew about these structural weaknesses all along.
According to the court documents, Apple’s own tests discovered the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were 3.3x and 7.2x more likely to bend than its predecessor, the iPhone 5S. These structural flaws led to what many dubbed “bendgate”, where both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus could literally bend just from the pressure of being stored in a trouser pocket.
Unfortunately, until today Apple had dismissed there was any sort of problem. It claimed cases of bending were “extremely rare” and even asked select media to witness its iPhone testing procedures.