Popular YouTuber Zack Nelson 0f JerryRigEverything recently got his hands on the new iPhone 14, which means only one thing: it’s time for a durability test.
In a video (below) posted Monday, Nelson quickly gets to work, performing his familiar scratch test on the iPhone 14’s Ceramic Shield, a hardened screen that Apple released with the iPhone 12 series in 2020.
After taking his tools to the screen of the iPhone 14, we see “extremely weak” scratches at level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale and more prominent scratches at level 7. We can take this as a decent enough result. “I think Apple’s Ceramic Shield is an improvement over regular tempered glass,” concludes Nelson.
Next, a scraping exercise that will almost certainly make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. It involves Nelson dragging a box cutter blade down the side of the phone’s aluminum frame. No big surprises here, with the structural integrity of the frame holding up but much of the paint coming off. The process, however, gives Nelson the opportunity to highlight the fact that Apple now uses recycled aluminum in 59% of its products, “probably because it’s cheaper, but also because it has 1/40 the carbon footprint of ‘extracted aluminum,’ he says. .
Moving on to the rear camera lens covers, Nelson is surprised to find that they scratch more easily than expected, suggesting that owners should think about where and how they put their iPhone 14 if they don’t intend to ‘add protectors.
Next we have the burn test. To be frank, this is really less “proof” and more “willful destruction”. After all, we can see how keys in a pocket can damage a screen over time, but how often are you going to keep a naked flame on your phone’s screen? Our guess is “not much.” Still, that doesn’t stop Nelson from turning on his lighter and bringing the front of the iPhone 14 closer to the flame. It doesn’t go well (of course not), with the pixels starting to suffer beyond repair. damage after about 20 seconds.
Finally, Nelson puts the iPhone 14 through his unscientific bend test, a challenge that has seen some of his devices fail spectacularly in the past. Not so the iPhone 14, which remains intact despite the YouTuber’s best efforts to split it in two.
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