--- title: Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare description: Apple responded Thursday to claims that its new iPhone 6 Plus is bendable. canonical: https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-26T18:30:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:03:15.754Z article:section: Business og:title: Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare og:description: Apple responded Thursday to claims that its new iPhone 6 Plus is bendable. og:url: https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b08b477c9b0be1/6986a5a2f983e75c7904fe36/456125660.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Apple Responds to ‘BendGate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare twitter:description: Apple responded Thursday to claims that its new iPhone 6 Plus is bendable. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b08b477c9b0be1/6986a5a2f983e75c7904fe36/456125660.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bent iPhones Are Rare by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 26, 2014 6:30 PM CUT  Apple Responds to ‘BendGate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare Apple Responds to ‘BendGate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is RareGetty by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 26, 2014 6:30 PM CUT Apple responded Thursday to claims that its new iPhone 6 Plus is bendable. The hashtag #Bendgate as well as an Unbox Therapy video of a user bending his phone went viral within a few days of the iPhone 6 Plus’s release last week, and customers were not happy about it. Apple said that with normal use a bend in the phone is rare, and that the numbers of users that have reported bent phones is extremely low; only 9 so far. Apple has publicly displayed the rigorous tests that phones undergo before being released to consumers, and has announced that some bent phones will be eligible for replacement. An Apple rep added that the company is “looking into this with an insane amount of detail.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/"},"headline":"Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bent iPhones Are Rare","datePublished":"2014-09-26T18:30:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:15.754Z","description":"Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate’","url":"https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/","keywords":["Tech","Apple","iPhone","Business topic","iPhone 6 topic","iPhone 6 Plus"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b08b477c9b0be1/6986a5a2f983e75c7904fe36/456125660.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b08b477c9b0be1/6986a5a2f983e75c7904fe36/456125660.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Apple Responds to ‘BendGate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare","caption":"Apple Responds to ‘BendGate,’ Says Bend In iPhone Is Rare","creditText":"Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3433177/apple-iphone-6-bend/","name":"Apple Responds to ‘Bendgate,’ Says Bent iPhones Are Rare"}}]}] ```