Apple pushes its devices to the limit to ensure their longevity
Apple has hundreds of laboratories around the world to test every feature of your hardware products. This is where stress testing, durability testing, and other analyzes are performed that help the company understand and improve its devices.
In this type of laboratories Apple literally tortures its devices to offer a design with the greatest possible longevity. If you’ve ever wondered why your iPad’s screen is so shock-resistant, how to find out how water-resistant an iPhone is, or how to improve a device’s heat dissipation, this will interest you.
Apple’s secret laboratory
Apple engineers use a special lab filled with all kinds of technology to test their devices. They carry out stress tests using robotic arms, tests to test water resistance in a thousand imaginable ways and subject their products to extreme weather conditions.
YouTuber Nikias Molina was invited to one of these labs and showed us some of the most interesting tests on video. The tests they drop all Apple equipment on the ground to know its resistance, They throw jets of water and sand to determine how water and dust resistant they are and use their connectors hundreds of times to see how they perform.
Water and dust resistance tests
For his part, another YouTuber named Marques Brownlee also had access to certain Apple laboratories to test the durability of new generations of iPhone before starting their marketing on the market.
Apparently there is a room entirely dedicated to injecting water and sand into Apple devices. They have until four different levels to test the water resistance of your precious iPhone.
- A gigantic shower to simulate rain.
- Low pressure jets.
- A high pressure jet like that of a fire hydrant.
- Submerge under water for an extended period while applying pressure.
#2: There is an entire room of machines for water and infiltration testing
Level 1: A collection tray simulating rain, no real pressure. IPX4
Level 2: A sustained low pressure stream from any angle. IPX5
Level 3: High pressure spray from a literal fire hose. IPX6
Level 4: Locking… pic.twitter.com/5R38I6QVmW
– Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 29, 2024
Strength and drop tests
But the crown jewel is its robotic arm, which takes an Apple product like an iPhone and He lets it fall to the ground very naturally.. They perform these drop tests on all types of materials of different hardness and use high-speed cameras to analyze the results in slow motion.
#3: Apparently Apple also purchased and programmed an industrial robot to be its own drop testing machine – to simulate hundreds of different drop angles on different materials.
Then they hit him with super bright lights and a high speed camera to observe them… pic.twitter.com/EsNJbVQrbO
– Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 29, 2024
Vibration tests
Apple also has a strange machine that vibrates its products – including the Apple Vision Pro – to ensure they continue to work perfectly. These machines can be programmed up to reach the frequency of a motorcycle or a vehicle on the highway.
#4 Ok, this one was hard to capture on camera – it literally makes everything shake at computer-controlled frequencies. They can program the frequency of a certain motorcycle engine or subway car to simulate a device’s ability to withstand prolonged exposure to that frequency… pic.twitter.com/K981NzQhhk
– Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 29, 2024
These are all the tests that Apple devices undergo in these secret laboratories. The company literally tortures its products so that your day won’t be ruined if you drop your iPhone on the floor. Thanks, Apple.
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