Unless it came out of the factory with a serious defect, this iPad had significant force applied to it.
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Unless it came out of the factory with a serious defect, this iPad had significant force applied to it.
Well, that's nonsense. Some prior iPads were much more rigid than others- certainly not all equal!
The other guy's iPad? Why are you suggesting he's a liar that did something other than stick it in his backpack?
Because the alternative seems improbable?
They are not necessarily lying - they just might be unaware of the real culprit.
There's too many stories of backpack bent iPads on the net to discount them out of hand.
Having said that, I've also jumped to the assumption about how damage did or didn't occur on these boards, when someone claimed they'd bent their iPhone whilst bending over- the iPhone was in the back pocket. The poster claimed they'd never ever sat down on it. Uh, yeah, right. 😅
Mostly just clothes, and I had it in a separate pocket. My working theory at the moment is that I’ve been taking it out of the keyboard by pulling on the bottom right corner, and doing that repeatedly has caused the end with the charging port to bend, but really, it’s still extreme for it to have bent in just two weeks from just that.
For what it’s worth I put it down on a flat table and placed a heavy object on it for a couple of hours and that appears to have partly fixed the bend, but I’m thinking I should still have it looked at.
‘Yes, I believe there is more to this story. It could not have been bent unless it was “improperly” stored in the backpack.
Well by all means hire a private detective to uncover the hidden details, because I’m stumped. Again, I put the iPad, inside the magic keyboard case, in a back pocket of my backpack with nothing else in it, where it stayed for most of my two-day trip.
It’s possible that I carelessly put some sort of force on it in the last two weeks, but I think I would have noticed if I had accidentally put any force great enough to have caused a bend like this.
The pressure from objects pushing against the iPad could make it bend, depending or how much clothing you stuffed in there. I tended to sandwich my iPad between hardback notebooks to protect it from bending or things poking into it, or at least ones one hardback notebook for rigidity.
I feel like this validates my comment directly above this. You say your iPad got bent in a backpack *while inside the keyboard case* - why do none of the destruction YouTubers put these through a stress test while in cases when that’s exactly how almost everyone uses them?
Hey guys, it wasn't bent - I am no expert, but I think it's a fake photo. Run it through some of the forensic sites. There are some beyond my expertise, but Fake Image Detector and FotoForensics both say it's probably an altered photo. How about a video showing the side, front and back - funny we can only see the side?
fakeimagedetector.com:
fotoforensics.com, the white "list" on the left side of the iPad seems to indicate an altered photo:
Like I said - I am no expert, see what you can discover if this is your field. But my money is on altered photo.
fakeimagedetector.com:
fotoforensics.com, the white "list" on the left side of the iPad seems to indicate an altered photo:
Like I said - I am no expert, see what you can discover if this is your field. But my money is on altered photo.
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Sure, Apple can still laugh in the face of physics, and it would still be your problem.
You’re failing to stay on topic again.
If Apple has released an iPad that bends from being held wrong or used as intended, that’s a massive problem and you won’t find me defending them.
But so far no such reports have emerged. The tech reviews salivating at the prospect of breaking one all said it was stronger than expected.
So I’ll give Apple the benefit of the doubt when a total stranger posts one photo and says “it just bent, honest!” until there’s a smidge more information to verify it, k?
Back pocket iPhone bending guy on these forums claims Apple replaced his phone(s)...
He maybe right, for it is quite hard to prove he bent it himself. You can bend the iPad (or any tablet) if you really want to do that. That bend be could ever so slight, but the owner becomes eligible for a repair/refund or replacement.
So, your logic here is a person would “really want to” bend their iPad, and then want another one that isn’t bent?
It was just an English sentence.So, your logic here is a person would “really want to” bend their iPad, and then want another one that isn’t bent?
Coming back to your question, the new thin M4 iPad Pro 13" can be bent, as you say, squeezing one into an overstuffed backpack.
I've watched a person destroying such an iPad deliberately in a YT video. He is showing the reinforcement included in that iPad. You can take the decision whether it is tough enough or not. I'd carry it in a reinforced bag.