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At risk of getting attacked nothing can bend by themselves. Or break, or stop working. A failure of a part is one of two things. User error. Or defect. No other possibilities. There is always a cause.
I worked as a Apple service tech for my fathers Apple VAR for 6 year, then a service advisor at a Ford dealership for 3 years, and then a cell company for 5 years.
I have seen it all and heard it all. 9 times out of 10 the customers a liar. From a laptop filled with cola, and them blaming a maid while it sat on the kitchen table to a cell phone that had melted because the battery had to have exploded even tho it was covered in ash. He dropped in a fire, duh. People lie about what and how. I would buy old equipment off customers and abuse them, to find out what they could take. A lot was always my result. Like people saying they drop their phones off the couch and the front and back is crack to hell. That’s utter BS. Or a laptop with a cracked screen. You slammed it shut or smashed it. You did not have it in your case and it fell off the back seat of your car.
Now defects happen. Saw plenty even back in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s with Apple. A lot more then now in fact. Broken S keys out of the box on thousands of keyboard, bad motherboards, bad power cords and supplies. And broken hinges on laptops. I made more on the IBooks than anything. Apple has never been perfect. It never will be nothing is. Accept that fact. Like my 2020 iPad Pro. It had some of the black sealant on the left side by the screen. So what? I cleaned it off and was fine. I didn’t bitch and call Apple. Sometimes you got to look at something and say does this really matter? If not just use it till it dies.
 
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Some people have a very simple answer to their "problems" they encounter with Apple products. Very, very, simple solution.

Quit buying Apple products.
They could do that but besides a Windows machine there is only Linux and gamers won't purchase those.
 
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Finally, i found out the truth. Thx Apple.

I have a feeling you’re once again going to link to stuff already discussed months ago in the large bending ipad thread- the one this should have been merged with a while ago already.
 
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And just when I was looking at buying a new iPad. Although the second thing I buy, and it's usually on the same receipt, is an Otterbox case. I'm not compensated by them, but I've dropped or carried enough iDevices in carryons to know that I'm rough on my toys, and watching your new iPhone Xs Max fall to a concrete floor and land on an edge was a heart stopping moment, and having the Otterbox save it, save me, was so awesome.

Not all cases will protect everything in any type of incident, but people that insist on 'going nekud' have to realize what they risk, and *should* own the results. Just saying... (And buying a case that isn't reinforced with hard plastic is just as good as 'going nekud')

(Still trying to narrow down my choices for new iPad. Too many models)
 
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I have a feeling you’re once again going to link to stuff already discussed months ago in the large bending ipad thread- the one this should have been merged with a while ago already.


As far as the iPad bending thing that was ... news - years ago. The need to go thinner than thin makes things easier to bend and even Apple's manufacturing process had a "slight" bend - which, if one is nice enough, should be able to get replaced at Apple especially if they have AppleCare+.
 
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And just when I was looking at buying a new iPad. Although the second thing I buy, and it's usually on the same receipt, is an Otterbox case. I'm not compensated by them, but I've dropped or carried enough iDevices in carryons to know that I'm rough on my toys, and watching your new iPhone Xs Max fall to a concrete floor and land on an edge was a heart stopping moment, and having the Otterbox save it, save me, was so awesome.

Not all cases will protect everything in any type of incident, but people that insist on 'going nekud' have to realize what they risk, and *should* own the results. Just saying... (And buying a case that isn't reinforced with hard plastic is just as good as 'going nekud')

(Still trying to narrow down my choices for new iPad. Too many models)

Better wait or buy a Macbook . Of course if you don't want an ipad slightly bent considered to be normal by Apple.
 
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Woke up this morning and noticed my iPad Pro 11 cellular 2018 is bent. Pretty badly. Always been in a case. Any ideas?
ive had every single iPad and iPhone model, never seen anything like this Definitely not damaged by Hand.
this is obviously out of warranty- any fixes?

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just read this support page too https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209403
 
Woke up this morning and noticed my iPad Pro 11 cellular 2018 is bent. Pretty badly. Always been in a case. Any ideas?
ive had every single iPad and iPhone model, never seen anything like this Definitely not damaged by Hand.
this is obviously out of warranty- any fixes?

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just read this support page too https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209403

It bent itself overnight?

I'm not being sarcastic. I have an iPad Pro 11 Cellular 2018 as well.

Can we get some pictures?
 
Buy the crappy 2020 model or keep using until the new ones come out. The sides are weak points. Just ya e to ensure it’s handled with care at all times. The obsession with thinness isn’t always a great thing.
 
Woke up this morning and noticed my iPad Pro 11 cellular 2018 is bent. Pretty badly. Always been in a case. Any ideas?
ive had every single iPad and iPhone model, never seen anything like this Definitely not damaged by Hand.
this is obviously out of warranty- any fixes?

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just read this support page too https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209403
In order for it to have bent, it would have had to have some kind of force exerted against it. You may not have realized such at the time but, it can’t bend overnight on its own.

Is the iPad malfunctioning due to the bend, or is it just a eye sore to you? An out of warrants repair will be expensive. Get a quote from Apple. If it is several hundred dollars, I would try and live with it until you can get a new one.
 
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My brand new 11 Pro has a visible warp. Not enough to return or complain about though.
 
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