09.20.2025
The iPhone Air has managed to dodge another potential "bendgate," after a YouTuber resorted to machinery to test the new model in a typical destruction-centric video.iPhone Air, post bend-testing -

iPhone Air, post bend-testing - Image Credit: JerryRigEverything/YouTube
As inevitable as the annual schedule of the iPhone range itself, so too are YouTube videos that cash in on the spectacle of damaging iPhones and other hardware. In the case of the iPhone Air, they may have a challenge on their hands.
Saturday's video from JerryRigEverything, one of the more methodical content creators in the genre, performed their battery of durability tests on Apple's thinnest model. This time around, Apple's claims about the hardiness of the iPhone Air seem to match up to YouTube reality.
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