He iPhone Duo It has not yet reached its first buyers and has already gone through a test that shows how its screen can be affected with use. The youtuber Tim Pan has opened and closed the phone 11,500 times and has verified that the fold mark becomes more visibleaccording to The Verge.
The test comes amid enormous demand for the first foldable Applewhose price starts from 2,339 euros in Spain. The company has rated the reserves ‘simply extraordinary’ and assures that it works to accelerate the deliveries that the Spanish website currently indicates end of January 2027three months after tomorrow’s launch.
In the test video, Pan begins with 500 openings and closings and compare the appearance of the screen with the one it had just released. The fold mark It is now more visible in that first comparison, although he explains that it is barely noticeable when using the phone with the screen on.
Then it uses a machine that repeats the opening and closing movement 10,000 times followed at room temperature. Then add others 1,000 cycles at −20 °Ca much more demanding situation than usual.
When finished, Pan checks that the hinge still works as smoothly as the first day. The fold of the screen, on the other hand, has become deeperso the matte finish that covers it has not prevented the brand from being accentuated.
Apple maintains that the interior screen is designed to resist everyday wear and tear and highlights his coating against scratches and a layer nanotextured with a polymer up to a 40% more rigid than other materials in the sector. It also incorporates glass high resistance, adhesives specials that hold the layers of the screen together and allow them to slide slightly against each other when folded, reducing stress on the materials, and a titanium plate as reinforcement.
The company also defends that The matte finish reduces reflections and hides the central markbut has not published a number of opening and closing cycles that the device supports.
A 2026 survey of Galaxy Z Fold owners revealed that 81% reported opening and closing their cell phone a maximum of 20 times a day. For its part, Samsung Display, the Samsung division dedicated to manufacturing screensuses about 100 daily opens and closes as a reference for the average user when explaining its resistance tests, without detailing what data supports that estimate.
With 20 daily openings and closings, 11,500 cycles would be equivalent to 575 daysapproximately one year and seven months. If it is deployed ten times daily, would be reached in about three years and two monthswhile, taking as reference the 100 daily openings that Samsung Display uses, would be equivalent to 115 daysa little less than four months.