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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2026
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That's the exact failure that happened on the bend test for Zak on JerryRigEverything. Crazy it's happening without the full-muscle stress test.
The article says that the best guess is there's a physical part of the hinge about there that must be perfectly aligned, and if it isn't then that specific screen is eventually doomed.
Yeah, this boils down to a manufacturing engineering problem. There's some process happening during assembly that's resulting in these slipping by... or being allowed by.
EDIT: And I mean, yeah, the thing could've been designed better from the get go, but that ship sailed long ago.
I saw the test and the more glaring issue to me was that despite the IP68 rating, it utterly failed to withstand dust. It was technically still fully functional but wouldn't close properly. Those are fundamental issues that basic QC at Apple should have caught during development