In a video (below) posted Monday, Nelson quickly gets to work, performing his well-known scratch test on the iPhone 14’s ceramic shield, a hardened display that Apple released with the iPhone 12 series in 2020. After bringing his tools to the screen of the iPhone 14, we see “extremely faint” scratches at level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale and more obvious scratches at level 7. We can take this as a pretty decent result. “I think Apple’s ceramic shield is an improvement over regular glass,” concludes Nelson. Next, a scraping exercise that will almost certainly make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It involves Nelson dragging a box cutter blade up the side of the phone’s aluminum frame. No big surprises here, with the frame’s structural integrity holding up, but much of the paint peeling off. The process, however, gives Nelson an opportunity to highlight the fact that Apple now uses recycled aluminum in 59% of its products, “probably because it’s cheaper but also because it has 1/40 the carbon footprint of mined aluminum.” says. . Moving on to the rear camera lens covers, Nelson is surprised to find that they scratch more easily than expected, suggesting that owners think about where and how they’re going to put down their iPhone 14 if they don’t plan on adding protectors. Next we have the burn test. To be honest, this is really less of a ‘test’ and more of a ‘misguided disaster’. After all, we can see how keys in a pocket can damage a screen over time, but how often are you going to hold a naked flame to your phone’s screen? Our guess is “not much.” However, that doesn’t stop Nelson from lighting his lighter and getting the flame up close with the front of the iPhone 14. It doesn’t turn out well (of course it doesn’t), with pixels starting to suffer irreparable damage after about 20 seconds . Finally, Nelson puts the iPhone 14 through his unscientific bend test, a challenge that has seen some of his devices fail spectacularly in the past. Not so the iPhone 14, which remains intact despite the YouTuber’s best efforts to clean it in two.
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