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iPhone 15 Pro Max The Titanium is a fingerprint magnet

I probably touched it. I'm part alien. I actually dissolve macbook surface with my hand juice.

Honestly I like the look of the titanium after it's had some hands on it. Looks like it came out of a machine shop. Proper industrial weathered look to it.
 
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DMG35 said:
Why does that matter? Do you know how many times an individual touches his phone on a daily basis?

Do the midnight MacBooks need 100s of different fingerprints touching them in order to produce a fingerprint on the body? Nope, they just need one person touching it.

Claiming its because tons of people touched it is ridiculous. If one person goes up and puts their hand on a pane of glass, it’s going to produce fingerprints. Saying it would need multiple people’s hands is nonsense. Yeah some people’s hands are more oily than others but for the most part if something easily attracts fingerprints its only going to need one person touching it for them to show up.
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I appreciate that you do not agree: that does not make my point of view ridiculous or nonsense. Unless you were there and first hand experience you don't "know" anything more than I do.
 
Mr. Dee said:
Do we actually use the phone or just look at it?
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For real. I’m looking at the frame of my 14 Pro Max and the area around the volume buttons also looks like that in the right light and at the right angle… until I swipe it with a cloth. Then it magically disappears!

Guess what, people? Human beings are oily, sweaty animals who make the things they touch dirty. This shouldn’t be news to anyone and the fact that the newest iPhone picks up some prints is not news either. It’s a simple function of REALITY.
 
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The metal exterior of my iPhone is like a vampire and never sees the light of day.

I basically marvel at how thin and beautiful they are every two years when I take the old one out of the case to trade in and put the new one in its new home. I guess this year I'll just wear gloves for the occasion. :)
 
Amazing that fingerprints can be this entertaining… there is a simple answer if fingerprints are a problem for you: a case ;)
 
jz0309 said:
Amazing that fingerprints can be this entertaining… there is a simple answer if fingerprints are a problem for you: a case ;)
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It is entertaining! All people could do is say how bad the stainless steel showed fingerprints and how titanium would end that - and now it seems Apple actually made it worse! 🤣
 
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it's gorgeous
prints just add character
to the nobleness of mighty titanium🤭
 
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darngooddesign said:
You asserted that the photographer who took the photos in the original post had an agenda to sensationalize fingerprints. The person who took the photos shown in the first post is a founder of The Verge and he doesn't have a history of sensationalizing such things.

PS. Those are close-up photos, not macro photos.
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What I said was "macro photos intended to exacerbate fingerprints posted by the OP to troll." Now you tell me the OP poached the images from someone else, and that my comments somehow denigrate the original photog as sensationalizing. NONSENSE ! I do not like to shout, but this is what happens with stolen images.

Whether technically macro or not is irrelevant here. The original (poached) images were well shot and obviously intended to emphasize likely skin oils on the phones. The sensationalizing here was done by the OP with the "

The Titanium is a fingerprint magnet"​

headline, not by the photog(s) whose images were poached. What the original true owner(s) of the pix did or did not do with the images I have no idea.
 
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nelle douville said:
Are people really complaining about fingerprints showing on a device? Okay, whatever. Maybe I should rant about the smudges on my eyeglass lenses.
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To the fingerprint complainers. Go to Walmart and get a 16x16 detailing cloth, wet it with purified water, wring it out, keep it damp all day and wipe your iPhone down to clean it often like I do. Your iPhone will look clean and shiny and wiping it down several times a day keeps dust and dirt / fingerprints away.
 
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to everyone saying “it’s been held by hundreds of people”, if you watch the video someone cleans the phone basically between each person. I saw on a few other videos that fingerprints showed really easily. I never minded on my 14 or 13 pro but we shouldn’t be so quick to call these images false lol
 
Imagine handing your phone to a brightly lit gymnasium full of people and having them pass it around and man handle it, then see what it looked like when they handed it back to you...

This is a whole bunch of nothing.
 
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It’s not just one source but several. Anyway they should have kept one non-PVD version and that is natural titanium. That would look better even if it were more prone to scratches like the silver stainless steel model.


I predict the fingerprint fiasco will disappear when the drop tests take place. All titanium had a chance to fare better than expected, but with all that aluminum under the surface, we could be in for a nasty surprise.


Fun times ahead! 😛
 
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