iPhone 16 Pro Max Blemishes on Titanium Frame Out of Box

[Fred Zed]

That is the iBlemish. No additional cost for the feature.

And more importantly. Apple promises not to reduce your trade in value. Just make sure you have Apple notate the pre-existing conditions on their end. 😂

 

[robotphood]

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I get my iPhone and put a silicone case on it and now and then clean it, I don't go over it with a micrometer, or a jewellers loupe, or an electron microscope! If it looks good to the eye then its fine.

These are mass made units from china or India or Vietnam and no matter where they are made, they are not a single unique creation you paid millions for. Also the more you swap the more you may get some realy bad issues and you also get noticed by Apple for wasting lots of their phones or other gear.

I remember some guy a few years back returned 16 phones I think, that's crazy, don't obsess, and the old 'I paid blah for this so it should be perfect' is bull, I paid a lot for a Sony master series OLED with 3 dead pixles at the edge of the screen that I cannot see unless I am like two inches away (or getting my cat down off the unit which is when I saw them about 2 inches away from the screen) now out of 8 million that's not bad, and the next unit could have much worse issues. Nothing is perfect no matter how much you pay, let alone mass produced phones tablets and TV's and computers with an Apple logo. Jeez get a life people.

I don't mind minor imperfections that I have to scrutinize to see because I use my phone naked and I'm bound to get some eventually. But I think it's more than acceptable to get a perfect product if that's what you want. I would bet that the majority of devices are quite perfect out of the box, isn't that the kind of tolerances Apple has been touting for over a decade or did that leave with Jony Ive?

It's surprising to me personally that you would be okay with 3 dead pixels on one of the best and most expensive oled displays. That's certainly more than a cosmetic defect. If you got a discount, that's a different story...

 

[killhippie]

Nonsens! With all respect, but you are a brands wet dream. An iPhones camera lens should not be full of dust specs or has blemishes on the casing, period.

Speaking of tolerances, its getting bigger by the year = less productions cost, same selling price = more profit!
Consumer behaviour like this is creating slacking companies.

Again, it should not have multiple dust specs on the lens! Lets not normalise these kind of issues.

Whats "Nonsens"? Anyway Not all iPhone cameras are full of so much dust people can can use it as a egg timer, jeez there are certain issues like that that I would say are bad. A few blemishes on a Titanium frame when you will do that anyway in as few months case or not, out of batches of millions of phones is not a big deal.

Mine does not have multiple dust issues, then again I don't hold my 'precious' and paw over it with the desire to find a fault and run to a Apple store jumping up and down saying "look a microscopic blemish" on a mass produced tool. I don't obsess, I have a life. Now I may be worried about Boeing's fault tolerances a bit more than Apples.

This and every iPhone since the 15 (its getting hard to tell they all look the same for like 6 years or so now) is a cheap lump of aluminium fused with titanium made god knows where as cheaply as possible, so Apple can make lots of moolar (look it up) out of people who update when the current phone is just fine, you know the one without dust and blemishes.

To have the latest and saddest iPhone that did not even come with its feature set out of the box is nothing to shout about but at least it works as they cheap out on its modem and will soon many milllions of owners will throw up when its RGB style eplilepsy inducing flashing starts to let you know its got poorly implemented AI (not Apple inteligence)

Good luck finding a perfect one, and when or if you ever do find one that has no dust or scuffs or gaps if you look for that kind of stuff then just stop it! Be happy and don't look any closer you may see new gaps and other blemishes in new places, or maybe you will have to meaure the bezels with a micrometer to just be sure its perfect like one person on here!

Well at least it wont fail midflight and blow part of its fusilage out due to lack of bolts being installed in a plug door, so just enjoy what you have, or go work for Boeing as a fault finder of some sort, just think how much a 737 Max 9 costs (Its $118.5M) and they are certainly not perfect, even at that price.

 

[James6s]

I didn’t have any marks out of the box.. I have a blue titanium 15PM and the painted titanium does seem to pick up marks much more easy than the previous stainless steel used in the pro models.

Some of the small marks happened while in a case, must’ve been some small specks of abrasive materials in the case that touched the frame.

 

[xgman]

scratches are all over a black max pro titanium. black chips off if you just use any sort of case. I learned my lesson this time. I had natural before and no problems.