{"id":657005,"date":"2026-10-25T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657005\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:58:08","slug":"a-youtuber-dissected-an-iphone-duo-and-thinks-he-found-the-cause-of-crackgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657005\/","title":{"rendered":"A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iPhoneDuo\/comments\/1xdshkz\/psa_dontopen_it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filled<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iPhoneDuo\/comments\/1xdemgv\/here_are_the_several_cases_i_mentioned_earlier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> of Apple\u2019s foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iPhoneDuo\/comments\/1xdqmmc\/didnt_even_make_it_through_setup_before_i_had_the\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">few hours<\/a> before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1017623\/iphone-duo-broken-cracked-screen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">break the screen<\/a>. Tellingly, the cracks all seem to happen in the same place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wtP7Q9Io90I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CuriousHagi<\/a> was able to reproduce the cracked screen during some durability testing of the iPhone Duo. Then he pulled it apart to try and find the culprit. What he found is that the Duo\u2019s hinge is quite complex, consisting of a gear-like central hinge and two different types of linking hinges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The piece that broke is one of the links in the middle of the phone that happens to be thinner than the links below or above it, and it snapped at a small notch where it would be weakest. He also found marks where the hinge met the support plate, indicating where it may have gotten caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple\u2019s foldable failing quickly and in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[670,85,3279,46,321,43,920,125],"class_list":["post-657005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-il","tag-iphone","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}