Titanium scratches. My titanium watch bracelets always get scratches on the clasps. It’s actually the coating/oxidation that gets scratched and it buffs out. Here, I suspect it’s the color coating that is scratching on the phone.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max The Titanium is a fingerprint magnet
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Titanium scratches. My titanium watch bracelets always get scratches on the clasps. It’s actually the coating/oxidation that gets scratched and it buffs out. Here, I suspect it’s the color coating that is scratching on the phone.
Yeah good point. Why ever wash your car if it drives fine filthy dirty?
Some people don’t like their stuff covered in prints. Yeah I could put a case on it, I just prefer the feel of the phone without one.
Fingerprints are nothing compared to the 14 and prior series. Not even remotely close to as bad.
I don’t think anyone is talking about filth here
They’re talking about fingerprints that show up after touching the phone once.
Take a look at it after touching it. It is beyond filthy looking.
I can confirm that the titanium is a fingerprint magnet, because I just looked at one at my local AT&T store. The guy there was just now putting them out on display and he let me hold it, fingerprints immediately showed up on the side of it just like they do on the stainless steel models of the 14 pro series. So yes, it will show fingerprints right away.
I don’t know, doesn’t bother me anyway & I don’t care if the phone collects fingerprints or not. Everything you touch generally leaves a fingerprint. I’m just pointing out the fact that it does in fact show fingerprints for those that really are concerned about it. Mine is always going to be in a case anyway so I don’t really care. I always use a case and an anti-glare/mat finish screen protector.
After opening a new iphone box I have never thought twice about smudges, except on the glass front. I always use a case which mitigates visual distraction a smudge may create. I love the industrial design of the iphone and wish I could use it without any case, but that’s not going to happen.
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The Titanium of the Apple Watch Ultra 2 doesn‘t seem to be a fingerprint magnet based on what I have seen so far in the Apple Store though.
Not sure what Apple did to the Titanium of the iPhone to make it like this.
I have the watch ultra, it’s pure titanium I believe. The iPhone is an alloy of titanium and something else.. probably why.
Well I just had my iPhone 15 Pro out of the case to try something, and while I was at it... I ran my fingers all over the back and sides for a couple minutes. I'm very disappointed to report that I don't see any fingerprints on the back, and MAYBE a little oily-appearing smearing on the sides. No prints. This the blue titanium one.
Err yeah, titanium does attract fingerprints lol. I was laughing reading some of the comments pre launch on here where people were already justifying the move away from stainless steel because they hated fingerprints lol. People forget the Apple Watch criticisms a few years ago where many threads were made about keeping fingerprints and smudges off their £800 aluminium looking titanium watches.
I just go with it and I heard the same complaints about plastic, aluminum, the stainless steel and now the titanium. Guess that fingerprints happen. I think the funniest thing I heard was some YouTube expert weighed in and said titanium was a soft metal. I really wanted to ask him if it is so soft what was the SR71 spy plane made of, of course it was a titanium bird and is a very hard metal and has high resistance to heat.
Now I realize that the titanium is not the same grade used in the SR71 but I also spent 30 plus years working to assemble aircraft and have spent most of that time drilling fitting parts and drilling titanium and if that stuff is soft how come you have to use special drill bits to drill it and at extreme low speed and heavy pressure against the drill motor.
Now I realize that the titanium is not the same grade used in the SR71 but I also spent 30 plus years working to assemble aircraft and have spent most of that time drilling fitting parts and drilling titanium and if that stuff is soft how come you have to use special drill bits to drill it and at extreme low speed and heavy pressure against the drill motor.
I was referring to the natural titanium finishes that were seen on the Series 5/6 watches a few years ago. There was complaints at the fingerprints and micro scratches back then.