YouTuber Shows How Apple’s Decision to Use Titanium in the iPhone 15 Pro Max May Have Backfired

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The new iPhone 15 series is getting a lot of attention and for all the right reasons. I mean, when did iPhones stop getting attention in the first place? The crown jewels of the new lineup are, of course, the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro Max. This year, Apple fired on all cylinders and made some really nice changes to the phone's construction, including Grade 5 titanium, along with class-leading cameras and more.

Now, anyone who is familiar with alloys should know that Grade 5 titanium is not cheap. It is actually one of the more expensive variants of titanium, and for the right reasons because of its applications, so Apple claiming to use Grade 5 titanium is a bold claim. Well, to test things out, our favorite talking hands, Zack from JerryRigEverything, decided to take the new iPhone 15 Pro Max for a spin, and well, the results are odd, at best.

You can see the entire video is going perfectly normal, with the iPhone 15 Pro Max passing all the tests, but when it comes to the bend test, the phone simply does not survive. This could be because Apple is using titanium on the external frame and aluminum on the internal frame. Now, the Grade 5 titanium offers almost three times the tensile strength when compared to aluminum and half the elasticity, but the moment Zack did the first bend, the back glass shattered entirely. It still isn't as bad as some of the other bend tests we have seen, but if you are spending over $1,000 on a new iPhone, you want to be careful, as well.

The test does go on where Zack sands down the edges of the iPhone 15 Pro Max to reveal that Apple is indeed using titanium as titanium reacts to heat and turns color. However, we are still not sure if it is Grade 5 because, as mentioned previously, it is one of the