See, that's the thing. If Apple would have just said to me that "this is a cosmetic issue and you have nothing to worry about" I would have been ok with it and still had my iPhone 13 Pro. But no, its "I don't see it", "Oh, it's PROBABLY nothing to worry about". Ahem. Can I get that in writing? Like later on when I go for a walk and it starts raining and I now have water damage due to it... will it be "Well, it's water damaged, sorry"?
I had to just look closer to find mine. If you’re not at the right angle you won’t see it and the gap is so uniform that if you cannot see the metal part it seems like you don’t have an issue.
Oh, I agree. And I hope you are right. As I said, I was willing to overlook it and say "it's normal". But with no clear indication from Apple (wouldn't have killed them to do this) I felt I should return and re-order when they may have more information. BTW, not trying to put doubt in your mind. I was in your shoes a few days ago and hope it's all ok!
I saw it looking straight at the phone! I didn’t need to twist and contort to see it.
Interesting!!
But the thing is I didn’t actually look for it. I unboxed the phone and just assumed brand new = flawless.
That's the problem IMO. Still got both the 13 Pro and Pro Max lying around as I'm undecided about which one to keep. The Pro Max has a huge (relatively speaking) gap above the ear piece as the screen is mounted as low as possible. It's visible in daylight no matter the angle, so it's something I noticed by accident and not something I had to look for. The Pro on the other hand has tiny gap, and the metal is only visible if looking for it at certain angles and in certain lighting. Both still probably only cosmetic, but paying 1700USD for the 256GB Max here in Norway I really expect not seeing the internals of the phone whenever looking at the ear piece. First world problems and all that, but nevertheless annoying price considered
You think anyone is strong enough to break a phone by squeezing?
You won’t break the phone they are meant to withstand drops. You pressing won’t hurt it.
"But it's not perfect". You can see it when you shine a light of a thousand suns at it and take a picture and blow it up 10 times. How anyone can accept such "garbage" is beyond me. /s
Interesting theory and based on the tear down videos I initially came to the same conclusion. However, I would expect to see the stainless steel all the way along the gap. On my iPhone I could only see the metal for about a fourth of the way on the right side, and just tiny bit on the left.
I think this post from Reddit sums up what many are trying to illustrate since the design change of the IPhone 12/13's:
As I have said several times on this thread and others like it. I do not care about the gap and I understand the need for them. My comment was focused on the "metal bits" in the gap.
Well this thread is about the gap spacing not whatever metal bits your talking about. Sounds like you have a problem so just return it. I don't see any threads for "metal bits" anywhere on MacRumors.
It’s not metal bits. It’s the component underneath that you see cause of the gap.
Your light isn't bright enough : )
