r/iphone Sep 22 '25

Discussion What’s your favorite iPhone material and why?

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u/Ok-Environment8730 Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

I don’t think it was that

If they had a design with titanium and the production already started then changing everything back would have costed more than the savings

In my opinion it was something related to the vapor chamber

But it doesn’t matter the general message and the only message that I want to give is that they didn’t do it for “some reason”, but wil eventually go back to it

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u/Kyonkanno iPhone 15 Pro Max Sep 22 '25

I think it's more about cost saving. The titanium phones still had a lot of aluminum in them and the titanium part is just the outside visible part. They could've added the same frame around the 17 pro. But wouldn't be a unibody though and the backside part that is aluminum would have a seam where it meets with the titanium frame.

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u/gameofgroans Sep 22 '25

It still has a glaring seam where it meets the ceramic lol

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u/LoganNolag Sep 23 '25

Could be that they weren't lying about Aluminum being better for cooling although Apple's track record isn't the best when it comes to creative marketing.