Not long after Apple unveiled its inaugural foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, users began noticing cracks, black patches, and irregular bright streaks on the inner display within mere hours of use. As images and footage of these defects circulated extensively across social media platforms, the incident has been aptly termed 'Crackgate' by observers. The most recent disassembly investigation hints that the root cause might lie in the phone's intricate internal hinge mechanism: when the device is folded, the metallic support elements within the hinge may fail to retract completely, thereby exerting pressure on the fragile flexible screen and generating localized stress points, which eventually culminate in screen fractures.
