Apple knew that the iPhones 6 and 6 Plus warped easier than others

We recently commented that Apple did well in two related processes touch disease (touch disease), which affected iPhones 6 and 6 Plus. Well now, the Motherboard shared some interesting information about this case.

Because of the lawsuits, Apple was forced to hand over some documents in order to prove the internal tests done by it before placing the devices on the market. And the thing is weird.

Not all parts of the documents delivered by Apple were shared publicly by Judge Lucy Koh (responsible for the cases), but the content that reached the hands of the media basically shows that the iPhone 6 had a propensity 3.3x greater warping than the iPhone 5s, while on the iPhone 6 Plus this propensity was 7.2x. Despite this, at the time, Apple hit the chest and categorically stated that both devices were thoroughly tested and that such situations (of iPhones bending over) were extremely rare, occurring only with a very small number of consumers.

But what does #bendgate have to do with “touch disease”? The direct relationship, since this failure in the touchscreen happens precisely because of the loss of contact of the chip (responsible for this reading of the touches on the screen) with the logic board. And, in many cases, this may have happened because of this greater propensity for warping devices.

Apple silently fixed the “touch disease” problem, implementing a change in phone engineering in May 2016 (reinforcing this area to prevent the chip from losing contact with the logic board “so easily” ). Still, even knowing the problem, the company insured as much as possible the launch of a replacement program for these devices, which only appeared in November 2016 (when everything gained significant attention).

It is worth noting that Apple won the first round of this dispute, since Judge Koh denied the plaintiffs' attempt to sue Apple via the press conference obviously, they will appeal.

We will see what happens even more now, with this information.

via MacRumors