Inside Apple’s Secret iPhone Durability Testing Labs: Water Resistance, Drop Tests, and Behind-the-Scenes Footage

And I severely underestimated how many of you guys would be interested in it. But then a lot of the conversation that it drove was really interesting, and a lot of discussions that happened afterward were fun to participate in. So I figured I would drop even more of the footage here. So I’m back with more of my footage and clips from my visit to Apple’s secret iPhone durability testing labs. So if you ever wondered how an iPhone gets water resistance tested or drop tested or shaken like crazy before it gets announced on stage, these are the labs where all of that happens. And then they have to connect the dots between their test results and how they actually build phones, which is fascinating. So the first thing that I saw was the water resistance testing. So I think a lot of us kind of take for granted at this point, most high end smartphones, most flagships have IP sixty eight ratings. But a lot of people don’t actually think about it that that is a code where I P. Stands for ingress Protection. And then the first number is for solids, and then the second number is for liquids. And so each of these numbers gets higher and higher as it’s more protected against ingress. So some, like earbuds or headphones for example, you might see they are IPX four rated. That just means they’re not protected from dust, but from water. They can withstand some Light splashes from any direction, so sweat. Great! So the