2015-11-09

iPhone 6S Plus: A Word of Caution!!! Jeans Gate Update(2016-08-15)

Update (2016-08-15): Having the phone exchanged again it seems now with this one not to be an issue. Two weeks after the exchange I do not yet have any dots. Maybe someone figured out at Apple and fixed the issue or it was a built quality issue.

Update: After exchanging the phone I did not wear jeans for at least 2 weeks and I did not have any spots. Then I slowly started to wear Jeans again and the dots appeared as well. I thought I keep it for some time, but then I dropped the phone into a kitchen sink and my phone had to be replaced again. Strange was that the phone does not seem to be water resistant. The water first affected the mute switch and only after some time entered the display area, i.e. half dark but after 2 days it was completely cured.

Since 2008, I use an iPhone every day as my primary phone and had to replace the phone multiple times.

  • four times I broke the phone until the iPhone 5 came out where it actually survived my treatements without being destroyed.
  • But it failed me multiple times and was replaced as such during warranty. Front Camera, Back Camera and twice the display turned yellow!!
As you can see I never was really bothered by
  • the Bend Gate; I just did not purchase the phone, 
  • or the Antenna Gate; somehow it did not affect me.
But now I had to exchange my iPhone 6S Plus already twice within 10 days because it has amassed spots on the display.

I thought it could be pixel issues, but they don't look like typical pixel issues.

What worries me is if it is really only because I keep the phone in my front pocket of my jeans and that causes the issue. How am I going to tell every other week a guy in the apple store that I really do want a phone without the spots?


The phone cost a fortune and it fails by design?

I thought of giving it back and wait for the next release but I really don't want to go back to an iPhone 5.

Hope there is a solution, which does not mean you have to put it into a case, maybe even a great case from liveproof.

I'm worried and I hope I am not the only one facing this issue.