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iPad Pro iPad Pro is bent
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I keep it in a Vaja leather case that is a tight fit. The weather where I live routinely gets to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and I used to leave my iPad in its case, in my car, along with my briefcase and other items so I imagine it could have gotten quite hot in there. It isn’t out of the ordinary for me to have to wait for my iPhone to cool off before I can use it as I get a warning that it’s too hot and can’t be used. I’ll attach a pic. Anyway, since noticing the bend and fixing it, I no longer leave it in my car.
I know you’ll never believe it unless it happens to you so I won’t even bother trying to convince you.
I keep it in a Vaja leather case that is a tight fit. The weather where I live routinely gets to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and I used to leave my iPad in its case, in my car, along with my briefcase and other items so I imagine it could have gotten quite hot in there. It isn’t out of the ordinary for me to have to wait for my iPhone to cool off before I can use it as I get a warning that it’s too hot and can’t be used. I’ll attach a pic. Anyway, since noticing the bend and fixing it, I no longer leave it in my car.
I know you’ll never believe it unless it happens to you so I won’t even bother trying to convince you.
Being to warm to operate is well known. Get so hot that the aluminum bends is stupid!
Maybe the aluminum is becoming sentient and bending on it's own becasue it wants to.
This thread dates back almost a full year in the beginning ... but why not, it's fun.
LMAO Saturday on it ...Zaino went to town 'doing the butt'.
LMAO ... your first sentence for some reason reminds me of that troll in 300 "You are wrong! You are wrong Lionidess, wrong!".
Honestly ... an iPad does NOT bend on its on, on flat surfaces. Further why is it shown face down in your pictures? That too is a non-smart move in any case. Still physiques states it doesn't bed on it's own in normal climate. Either you had sex on it and completely didn't know, had a party and someone bent it and felt really bad and embarrased (not able to cover the cost) and placed it elsewhere, or something. Not on it's own. The likelihood that your ipad or anyone elses that was well cared for and never placed on a chair, couch, or bed and never face down, and the room wasn't 150 degrees celcius on a target spot on the iPad ... is so extreme sorry most will not believe you. Since you're so adamant of never making a mistake I doubt you'd believe foul play happening either. Now you're ready to check out the competition. Good for you.
LMAO Saturday on it ...Zaino went to town 'doing the butt'.
LMAO ... your first sentence for some reason reminds me of that troll in 300 "You are wrong! You are wrong Lionidess, wrong!".
Honestly ... an iPad does NOT bend on its on, on flat surfaces. Further why is it shown face down in your pictures? That too is a non-smart move in any case. Still physiques states it doesn't bed on it's own in normal climate. Either you had sex on it and completely didn't know, had a party and someone bent it and felt really bad and embarrased (not able to cover the cost) and placed it elsewhere, or something. Not on it's own. The likelihood that your ipad or anyone elses that was well cared for and never placed on a chair, couch, or bed and never face down, and the room wasn't 150 degrees celcius on a target spot on the iPad ... is so extreme sorry most will not believe you. Since you're so adamant of never making a mistake I doubt you'd believe foul play happening either. Now you're ready to check out the competition. Good for you.
Still frustrated? Just another useless post. Probably, you've wanted to entertain someone, but you failed in a hilarious way. Try again next time. I am sure you can do it better.
Thanks for... nothing! Here are users with this kind of problem but nobody will believe until it happen.
Keep trolling... Good job. You don't know the story, but you came here to make Apple great again!
BRGDS.
I had a MacBook Air 11” that bent in the middle behind the keyboard. It was never moved from the desk. It turns out that the battery inside had swollen and caused the casing to bend. It was fixed by Apple for no charge. Just adding another thought to be careful that bad battery swelling is not causing the bends.
So Uri Geller stopped by and warped your iPad? It's not going to spontaneously warp. No way, no how...
Useless post .. yet YOU took the time to reply. I entertained myself actually. The problem is purely of your own doing ... NOBODY believes self bending of any product because guess what ... it DOESN'T happen. It doesn't happen to people that pay attention and care for their products. It doesn't happen to people that are not ignorant of their own actions or to people that place blame on others or other "things" to lesson the impact on their own ego or to boost their own ego. I've read your posts in this thread. it doesn't add up. Suddenly an electronic device ended up bent more than 5 degress and nobody did anythign to it. What of the other several million devices owned by adults and teens and even children from 2-10yrs old that manage to crack screens or dent iPads yet never manage to BEND them.
This isn't a troll it's a wakeup call. I bet you get angry when you cannot find things in your own home in less than 5mins when you really need it. This must've hit a nerve in you ... so there is something there. it's your choice what you choose to ignore or reply to ... and what you believe what happened and what didn't. Calling others trolls or antything else cause they don't see the same level of common sense you have on the matter of a self bending iPad ... well. I've owne the same iPad for 2yrs before selling it. So did my son who was 17 at the time for 2yrs as well and he's a LOT more reckless than I am. He's used his for days over 12hrs plus at a time (on charger) ... still no bend. I've not even heard of anyone having this except this thread.
Can you irrefutably prove it bent on it's own? No not likely.
here is an example of someone that 'just noticed' their ipad was bent. You don't see them blaming Apple for it.
I keep it in a Vaja leather case that is a tight fit. The weather where I live routinely gets to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and I used to leave my iPad in its case, in my car, along with my briefcase and other items so I imagine it could have gotten quite hot in there. It isn’t out of the ordinary for me to have to wait for my iPhone to cool off before I can use it as I get a warning that it’s too hot and can’t be used. I’ll attach a pic. Anyway, since noticing the bend and fixing it, I no longer leave it in my car.
I know you’ll never believe it unless it happens to you so I won’t even bother trying to convince you.
HOGWASH!!!
Aluminum melting point is 1,218 degrees Fahrenheit. It's unlikely that it gets that hot in your car, in a bag or not.
Aside from that, just think what you are saying here. An aluminum car engine would fail minutes after being started. Aluminum cooking pans would melt. Aluminum is a very durable metal. It resists heat well. Heck, the glass in the windows of your car would be deforming too. Not to mention that the solder on the components would slide off at about half that temperature.
Just noticed that you said you had a Vaja case and that is was a tight fit.
You would not be the first the bend their device while inserting or removing it from a tight case.
You said it yourself, those temperatures are to make it MELT. Nobody here is claiming their iPads melted, only that they developed a small bend. I mention the heat, not because I am sure it was the heat that bent it, but only because I can’t think of what else could have done it as I am absolutely certain it was never dropped or sat on. If aluminum melts at 1,218 degrees Fahrenheit, at what temperature will it be soft enough to bend when components inside it (batteries, mid-frames, etc) may be causing even the slightest pressure? I’m just at a loss and looking for the cause of the bend. Mind you, it’s not a big deal to me because I absolutely love my iPad Pro and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else but I am curious and also not an Apple-apologist, as apparently many people in these forums are.
I guess that’s entirely possible but the iPad snaps into place. If it did bend with that level of pressure then I’d say a stronger aluminum alloy would have been better. My thinking was that the pressure on all 4 corners while in the case + heat generated either inside the iPad or outside it (like when in an extra hot vehicle) combined could have caused the bend. I don’t know, it’s just a theory and I can’t think of a better one. Does anyone know if the aluminum alloy used in the iPad Pro 12.9 is the same as the one used in the iPhone 6+ or is it the newer alloy used in the 6S+ and beyond?
Pure aluminum melts at 1,218, however pure aluminum isn't used that often. Aluminum alloys have much greater melting points and are much stronger and resistant to bending. Aluminum alloys are also more resistant to corrosion.
SO, The end point is that the iPad, no matter how large, is NOT going to spontaneously bend. The battery is unlikely to cause an iPad to bend. The screen is unlikely to cause an iPad to bend. A case is unlikely to cause an iPad to bend. Fairies and unicorns are unlikely to cause an iPad to bend. And an aluminum alloy, as stated above, isn't just going to bend on its own.
IF aluminum was so susceptible to spontaneous bending, manufacturers wouldn't be using it for semitrailers, load bearing airplane components, vehicle engines, etc... If aluminum were that fragile all of the sudden, the world as we know it would fall to the ground.
People need to stop abusing their iPads!
Thank you for the elaboration. Those circumstances do indeed make it much more likely that heat could cause bending, especially since a car acts like a greenhouse in the sun.
I’m not aware of the exact alloy of aluminum or mix of metals used in the iPad, but given the size, relative thinness and temperatures it is subjected to, bending is possible.
The problem is that you are assuming it is a single block of aluminum - it isn't. There are various grades of aluminum as well, so it isn't a cut and dried matter - otherwise we wouldn't have the iPhone "bendgate" in the first place.
Obviously the aluminum should only be sufficient to protect the iPad since it serves no other practical purpose (ignoring aesthetics) - the internals are mostly electronics / screen / battery etc - so in all likelihood it's some kind of shaped thin slice.
While I'm pretty sure it can't bend simply by being left on a e.g. a table or sofa, if you subject it to prolonged temperature swings, it is not hard to imagine that the shape under which it was originally manufactured can be warped.
In addition, you really should see the first page of this thread - I'm one of the initial skeptics of the entire bending thing, but there seem to be a fair number of reports that might suggest this isn't entirely a fabrication or mass conspiracy.
It's not a single block of aluminum? It's basically an aluminum plate that the 'guts' are attached to.
The aluminum is thicker than what is needed to protect it. Tinfoil would protect it at some point.
The shape under which it was originally manufactured? It was MACHINED into the shape it's in. From a solid block of aluminum. It's going back to a solid block? If it were left on a table/sofa/etc, it still won't spontaneously bend, OR turn into a block.
So a lot of people aren't capable of keeping their iPads safe. I'm not surprised. I have even cracked the windshield in my car because I tossed a Kleen Kanteen bottle onto the dash, and it hit the glass and shattered it. I dropped an iPod and destroyed the hard drive in it. I mean, 'poop' happens. The iPad is definitely large enough to skip across a pond, and way large enough to end up being sat on, dropped, had stuff set on it shift, and any number of issues that would warp the heck out of it. (I DID toss my MacBook Pro into my ML430, and it hit a stanchion for the rear seat belts and left a HUGH dent in the front right corner) I mention my issues with Apple devices, and other issues, because I didn't then make a claim that *something happened* and I can't explain it. I OWNED that dent, I OWNED that I destroyed my iPod by being careless, I OWNED that shattered windshield.
Stuff like the iPad Pro 'just bending' like that doesn't 'just happen'. Sorry...
You don't just make a claim that *something happened*? Something that you can't explain? You OWN it? Really? Seems you think it does, but ONLY if it happens to you:
"*poof* it's scrubbed clean!"
Just take ownership. You erased it.
That's my point. It's shaped artificially in an unnatural way. Expansion and contraction can affect the form after because the machining may not have taken into account temperature swings and uneven expansion.
That is what I said. However if the temperature fluctuates significantly, that's not "spontaneous" but something that occurred as a result of gradual expansion and contraction - there was an external factor, albeit not one of physical force.
So the point is that temperature shifts could potentially cause bending. It doesn't imply that owners aren't responsible. They are responsible - for allowing their iPads to be subjected to large temperature shifts.
I just have to ask, did that work?!?Thank you! Same here. It was very hot. No drop. I take care like is my baby) I will try to fix it.
Just a little bent but it will dissappear completely soon. Now i need the ipad. I used even a nip.
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