Why the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pros Are Scratching Alarmingly Fast

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If Steve Jobs is still alive, he would have told consumers complaining about scratching on the designs made of aluminum and glass for the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17, “There is no problem with scratching. Stay tuned.”

At the same speed, consumers got their hands on the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro/17 Pro Max on the launch day last Friday, September 19, videos and reports began to display scratches and retail marks in Apple Stores Worldwide. “Scratchgate” videos threatened with new Apple smartphones, starting from $ 999 for iPhone Air and $ 1099 for iPhone 17 Pro.

“There is no reception problem. Stay tuned”, after the launch of the iPhone 4 when consumers found that it controls the phone in a certain way covering the integrated air ranges in the stainless steel range that caused a decrease in the cellular signal to unused levels.

“The field of reality mutilation” will not work well in the world of social media today, as every issue is exaggerated without an appropriate context. Social media users are motivated to perpetuate an infrared novel to maintain the operation of the viral train. Follow -up and education about the reason for something is less preferred, even if it is done, because they do not get many views or raise the same amount of anger.

IPHONE 17 Pro Scroper on the first day … (hasn’t been until 24 hours yet)

Use a case immediately if you don’t wait to try this type of problem. I am very disappointed with quality here pic.twitter.com/zrjiqrl3za

– Bradley (Verdisvan) September 19, 2025

Each video seems to display new iPhone devices with visual damage to aluminum tires, especially around the iPhone 17 PROS rectangular “plateau” or to the glass background. The scratches are the most prominent on the new orange and deep blue orange colors, which, after damage, reveals the silver aluminum under it.

I can’t believe that IPHONE 17 Pro Training Units in stores have already been scratched. It did not take long at all. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/0qxsd25lit

– Safari✈ (Update4Wekly) September 18, 2025

How can new expensive iPhone devices be distinguished by such bad durability? This position is more ridiculous given that the Apple already claims that the entire iPhone collection this year uses a Ceramic SHIELD 2 glass coverage that is announced as three times more resistant to scratch than iPhone with a ceramic shield. Gizmodo continues to Apple but he did not receive a response by publishing time. We will update this story if we receive a statement.

Mixed aluminum will be checked naturally

Well, I have some bad news that you may not want to hear. Although I cannot exclude that Apple may be cheap in the Paint for iPhone 17 Pros function, I strongly doubt this. For beginners, the positives of iPhone 17 gets colored aluminum through a process called Anodes, a electrochemical process not only strengthens the metal, but also allows it to be dyed. This is not a new technology, as it is not the first Apple Rhodio to use in products. Apple collects all of its aluminum products, and each colored aluminum device is dyed using the process.

Scratching, cutting, and avoiding is normal for mixed aluminum.

Do you need evidence? Return and look at all the old iPod nano in the color of the back in the day. Unless you wear gloves and music players, all of them all scratch and scratch easily from daily wear. It is completely normal. (I think the “battle” look that adds a person to the devices, which indicates that it has been used and lovable. Imagine if everything is in Star Wars It was virgin. You will look fake.)

Apple Store Magsafe blames? Dust, not scratches?

However, but the positives of iPhone 17 showed damage after minutes and hours after stores. I hate to be a clear captain, but when you have hundreds, if not thousands, people literally disappear the devices Without stopping And not to be nice with them because they slapped them again on the Magsafe retail situations, visible damage must occur at a faster rate.

I think the problem here is that Magsafe stands in Apple stores that have a metal loop on top, which is easy to detect when lifting the phone. Over time, this metal is dried, making the issue worse. https://t.co/sxd4kq9LHC pic.twitter.com/a78okw7ozl

Dylan (@DylanMCD8) September 21, 2025

Zack Nelson, also known as JerryrigeVERYTHING, who may know as the man who tests durability over the phone by placing it through torture experiences such as bending, scratching and even burning it, says in the last video clip that scratches can be more temporary than proposed in social videos.

“Fun truth: 99 % of” scratches “that you see in this image are just a dust of the coin and the keys that I used to make marks,” Nelson participated in the Instagram post. “Everything will be completely separated. With the last 1 % of the damage that brings the acute angle to the camera plateau you should monitor.”

Others also set out in the wrong information surrounding Magsafe visible on the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pros:

You may see pictures like this showing iPhone 17 Pro and Air “scratching easily”, but this is misleading.

The “scratched” part is glass, not aluminum. In fact, these are not scratches at all, but simply material deposits of magsafe pucks … pic.twitter.com/vlzuffoshh4

– Appleaker (@Lakerapple) September 21, 2025

“In fact, these are not scratches at all, but simply material deposits from the Magsafe game from aluminum that rubs these phones,” user x appleleaker books. “The rear glass is matte with microscopic grooves that raise the aluminum Majsavi Pix and leave behind signs. These signs can be wiped with a small fiber cloth, and sometimes require alcohol cleaning.”

Aluminum is a soft metal

What about the ease of teeth in the positives of iPhone 17? You should not be a wise man and tell you to return to high school chemistry, but aluminum is a softer metal of titanium used in iPhone (iPhone 15 Pros and 16 Pros) or stainless steel used in iPhone X through iPhone 14 Pros. Therefore, of course, scratches will be visible if you drop them. Use a case if you are really worried about damage. If you want something more durable and do not need to use a box with it, you should think of iPhone air. As I said in my iPhone Air review, I was unexpectedly dropped our review unit – the screen survived safely, and there were only very simple parts to the angles of the titanium frame.

iphone17pro との生活。今日の学びは 3 つ
・望遠は Pixel のほうが圧倒的に強い
・約 12 時間割とハードに使ってもバッテリーは 35 % は持つ
・アルミフレーム落とすと即凹む！ケースは必須
です！今泣いてる pic.twitter.com/y4fwiywyoj

– （おきな） (Orokinalog) September 20, 2025

Beware of pictures and videos created from artificial intelligence

It also hurts me to say this, but you should not blindly accept everything you see online. Through the tools for photographing and creating strong video today, it is difficult to ever know what is not real or if any shots are modified.

Who could be sure if the images below are actually visualized iPhone 17 Pro (even one intentionally destroyed) or not?

Aluminum was uh … bad pic.twitter.com/d4bnosQ57d

DonglebookPro September 20, 2025

Even if the above images are real, bold users have taken the initiative clearly to use obstetric intelligence to create convincing images based on them, such as “the image” below, which displays iPhone 17 Pro with adhesive tape to cover up scratches and cracks.