At simply 5.7mm skinny, the brand new iPhone Air is slimmer than even Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s so skinny you’d assume it could snap in half if you happen to by chance sat on it or your toddler determined to check their energy with it. Now that the iPhone Air is touchdown within the arms of reviewers and early customers, the very very first thing everybody appears to be doing with this pencil-thin machine is making an attempt to bend it. Some of us are taking it to extremes, too, bending it over desk edges, smashing it with hammers, you identify it. The factor is, nobody appears to have succeeded in breaking the iPhone Air to date.

It seems to be like Apple has really constructed an indestructible iPhone, a far cry from the iPhone 6 Plus “Bendgate” days. Take the bend take a look at from Chinese language YouTuber Mediastorm, for instance. His model of the take a look at for the iPhone Air seems to be way more scientific than the opposite chaotic ones floating round, even when these are undoubtedly extra enjoyable to look at.

The YouTuber positioned an iPhone Air and an iPhone 6 Plus in a machine that applies downward stress on the middle whereas the ends are supported, simulating real-world bend stress.

The machine registered -60.1 Kgf on the iPhone Air and -60.2 Kgf on the iPhone 6 Plus. Underneath that power, the iPhone Air barely budged, whereas the iPhone 6 Plus was visibly deformed. Mediastorm did notice which you could really feel a slight flex if you happen to apply critical stress on the iPhone Air, however when you let go, the cellphone snaps proper again into form.

In the meantime, different creators have been placing the cellphone by way of less-than-scientific trials. A YouTube Brief from HowToHacksYT reveals somebody making an attempt to brute-force the iPhone Air into bending, nevertheless it doesn’t give manner. On TikTok, a person in black gloves tries to homicide the cellphone by smashing it towards desk edges and whacking it with a hammer. By all accounts, the cellphone ought to have shattered, nevertheless it made it out intact.

Apple launched its personal sturdiness movies to indicate off the iPhone Air’s energy. In a single take a look at, a machine utilized 58kg (about 130 kilos) of stress on to the center of the cellphone, but it bounced again with out taking any harm. Fairly darn spectacular for a cellphone so skinny, and one thing Android manufacturers planning ultra-thin telephones may be taught from.

By the way in which, in case you’re questioning, the Galaxy S25 Edge additionally beforehand handed YouTuber JerryRigEverything’s well-known bend take a look at. The skinny Galaxy confirmed a slight separation on the again panel, however no catastrophic harm. Different current, not-so-thin Android telephones, just like the OPPO Discover X8 Extremely and Discover N5 (foldable), weren’t as fortunate of their respective bend checks.