Structural screen issues on Iphone 14 Pro Max.

Hello — We are artists from a school who came up to the DTLA store from Tecate, MX on Feb 23 to get the new iPhone to shoot movie. I have never taken such care of a phone because it’s a group project and total budget is about the price for screen repair plus $171.

Back in Feb I bought case and screen cover. After one slide from low bed onto wooden floor a crack emerged in top right corner. I was horrified at prospect of telling the others.

We then bought a new case thinking that would protect it better but it happened again! Slide on to wooden floor. Now a crack in the left upper corner emerged.

We bought a third case and lo and behold it happened again — now cracks in the bottom right corner appeared.

Still we have started shooting - we’re in LA in the middle of production and without further accidents a crack has now emerged across middle of the screen. This is now connecting with one of the corner cracks and the whole thing is too horrid to contemplate.

I have never had an iPhone that cracked so easily. Even with a screen cover, which is a first for me. My IPhone X took 3 years to show a crack even after hard impacts.

Whats going on? — with case and screen cover this seems like a structural issue.

We’re bummed because of the many cracks— it gets a lot harder to use for the shoot. And it’s all touch and go now.

Had we known that the new iPhone 14 pro max screen would be more fragile than previous models, yes then maybe we would have considered Apple Care.

its all a little dysphoric because how can you protect a phone that is so fragile?

Are others seeing this issue or is it just us who’ve been very unfortunate with this specific phone?

Greetings from bummed out Mexican filmmakers 🤟😓