YouTuber destroys new iPhone Air with a blowtorch to test its durability
A YouTuber has destroyed his new iPhone Air with a blowtorch in a bid to test its durability.
Apple released a new range of iPhones last month after the tech giant’s live event on September 9 gave fans a first look.
The company showed off four new phone models including the major 'iPhone Air' that is purported to be the 'most durable yet'.
The new range of iPhones are the first ones to use iOS 26’s Liquid Glass design and the screen has a larger display than previous models, with a 6.3 inch display.
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Many users were impressed to hear that the iPhone Air will have a frame made of titanium, apparently making it the most durable iPhone to ever hit the shelves.
So, does reality match the hype? One YouTuber decided to put it to the test.
Zack Nelson, better known online as @JerryRigEverything, admitted that for the last few years, he ‘kinda assumed Apple was coasting’, until they dropped the ‘thinnest iPhone they have ever made’.
Promising fans a literal inside look of the device, he added that with its ‘Sensor Shift camera sensor, and 3D Printed Titanium charging port... there is a whole lot going on inside the iPhone Air that’s worth checking out.’.
During the review, Nelson pulled the new iPhone apart to get a closer look at the components that make up the smartphone.
Although, fans were shocked to see the content creator go as far as to take a blowtorch to its titanium frame to find out just how durable it really is, and Nelson was impressed to find that the frame held up.
Many viewers took to the YouTube comment section to share their own reactions to the video, with one user writing: “The technology inside is impressive. SLS Titanium printing is cool to see being used in mass manufacturing now.”
Another said: “This video makes me appreciate just how crazy it is that all these tiny little neatly arranged things somehow work together to show me cat videos at 3 am.”
A third person joked: “Back in my day, when you drop your phone, you risked the battery disassembling from it like legos.”
And a fourth added: “Honestly these teardowns make me sorta appreciate how these are ‘only’ $1000. So much tech assembled so tightly and this phone will probably work for the next 15 years as long as you don’t damage it from misuse.”