Apple pushes its devices to the limit to ensure their longevity
Apple has hundreds of laboratories around the world to test each and every feature of your hardware products. This is where resistance tests, durability tests and other analyzes are carried out 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 have ever wondered why your iPad screen resists shocks so well, how to discover the degree of water resistance of an iPhone or how to improve the heat dissipation of a device, this will interest you.
Apple’s secret laboratory
Apple engineers use a special lab filled with all kinds of technologies to test their devices. They carry out resistance tests using robotic arms, tests to test water resistance in a thousand imaginable ways and subject their products to extreme weather conditions.
The YouTuber Nikias Molina has been invited to one of these laboratories and has shown us on video some of the most interesting tests. The tests they make all Apple equipment fall to the ground to know its resistance, They throw jets of water and sand to determine their degree of resistance to water and dust and use their connectors hundreds of times to see how they work.
Water and dust resistance tests
For his part, another YouTuber called Marques Brownlee It has also had access to some Apple laboratories to test the durability of the new generations of iPhone before launching it on the market.
Apparently, there is a room entirely dedicated to squirting water and sand at Apple devices. They have up to 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.
- Immersion under water for a prolonged period of time applying pressure.
#2: There’s an entire room of machines for water and ingress testing
Level 1: A drip tray simulating rain, not real pressure. IPX4
Level 2: A sustained, low-pressure jet spray from any angle. IPX5
Level 3: High pressure spray from a literal firehose. IPX6
Level 4: Locking the… pic.twitter.com/5R38I6QVmW
—Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 29, 2024
Resistance 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 carry out 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 has also bought and programmed and industrial robot to be their own drop test machine – to simulate hundreds of different drop angles onto different materials
Then they hit it with some ultra bright lights and a high speed camera to watch them back in… 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 function perfectly. These machines can be programmed up to achieve the frequency of a motorcycle or a vehicle on the highway.
#4 Ok this one was hard to capture on camera – it’s literally shaking everything at computer-controlled frequencies. They can program in the frequency of a certain motorcycle engine or subway car to simulate how well a device will hold up to sustained exposure to that frequency… pic.twitter.com/K981NzQhhk
—Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) May 29, 2024
These are all the tests that Apple devices are subjected to 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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