First drop (with a case)

[u/samirbinballin]

Maybe a 3-4 foot drop off of the armrest of my couch and onto hardwood floor, (TineeOwl case shown at the end) - I always knew the new aluminum frame was fragile after what I’ve seen from the 17 Pro’s release, so I took the precaution of not using the Apple Cases and getting something decently protective.

Yeah, the aluminum corner still bent ever so slightly 😂, coming from a titanium 16 Pro Max I had no idea how to gauge the softness of this new material, but damn.

I personally don’t care as I was planning to use the phone caseless with AppleCare+ anyways, but I wanted to warn some of the OCD users on here, even with a case, the aluminum frame on these new builds can get damaged, just fyi.

[u/samirbinballin]

I have no way of proving it, I can take a photo of the inside of the case where the corner scuffed showing where the impact was, it fell from the armrest of the couch directly onto that corner, on hardwood floor.

That said, I upgrade every year or every other year, I’m not worried about my phone being pristine or “beloved jewelry” like you say.

This post wasn’t even a complaint really, more so an observation and a testament to the posts I’ve seen on the 17 pro sub last year, I didn’t say “Aluminum sucks I’m returning this phone!” - I’m still using the phone in the picture.

[u/Fluffy_Insect → u/samirbinballin]

There is no way couch hight on a hardwood floor could cause this dent with the phone in a case when my 17 pro max fell from the stairs and has no dent at all…

[u/samirbinballin → u/Fluffy_Insect]

Well it did 🤷, and to others too from what I’ve seen from former posts on r/iPhone17Pro, fortunately it didn’t happen to your phone from your drop, all I can say to people here is don’t trust the TineeOwl cases because I know some people are anal about their Apple Products.