The iPhone 15 is great, but it isn’t indestructible. Drop it, knock it or scratch it, and it will suffer damage that no one would wish on their expensive new purchase. The most obvious way to protect your new handset – aside from leaving it in the box – is to buy a case that will take the hard knocks and scrapes, leaving your iPhone as Apple intended.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR
Protection: According to surveys, 45 percent of phone owners will accidentally damage their phones, on average only 10 weeks after purchase. Keep your iPhone in a case and, whichever way it lands, it should be protected from everyday drops. If the case has a raised lip around the front, the screen should be saved from a crack. Also look for a raised edge around the cameras at the back.
Apple doesn’t bother, but many case makers claim their cases either meet or exceed ‘certified military-grade protection’, usually MIL-STD-810G, which is a series of US Department of Defense tests to determine the ‘overall durability of material system design’ of objects. This doesn’t mean you can take them into combat, but does imply – although not proven – that the protection offered is robust and tested. The product should have been sequentially dropped onto each face, edge, and corner for a total of 26 drops onto two-inch thick plywood over concrete.
Some cases are made from TPU, a cover made from thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) that’s designed to protect your phone from
