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if you've just spent $1,000 or more on the iPhone 10 the last thing you want to do is scratch it or drop it so we're doing it for you we're putting the iPhone 10 through some durability tests to see how well it holds up I've a set of keys here for our scratch test which are probably gonna be your biggest defenders whether in a pocket or in a purse and this is an iPhone 10 in space gray I also have a silver iPhone 10 just to see which one is most noticeable I'm starting with a Space Gray and I'm gonna go in right under the iPhone sign and I'm really gonna go really strong on this all right I'm putting a lot of pressure on these phones right now honestly I can't see any scratches on the back it survived the keys so now we're gonna see if they survived the sandpaper if you happen to have it on a rough surface starting again with the Space Gray iPhone so that made some damage on both phones and as expected it is more noticeable on the Space Gray I am gonna go ahead and retire the silver one for now and focus on what you actually want to keep safe which is the screen I'm going in with the same key with not too much pressure on the top left-hand corner next to the notch and it didn't make much damage and let's try the sandpaper now oh yeah you can definitely see the damage I didn't even press that hard on the sandpaper now let's take it outside to do our drop test the sidewalk is where most phones come to meet their doom probably from about pocket height so that's exactly what we're doing now starting off screen side up it landed screen side down but it actually hit the back of the phone first so I can already see the first crack on the back of the phone look at that there's a fracture on the corner of that glass back let's turn it around it looks like the screen is okay the screen survived but again it hit the back first and it cracked at the first drop and there's another fracture up here it's tiny so I haven't noticed it at first but there's a tiny pressure on the other corner and already a scuff on that stainless steel frame Wow so we already did some damage on the back of the phone now I'm gonna try to have it land to screen side down so I can already see that the back of the phone is cracked even more there are spider webs all over going through the entire back of the phone that wasn't there before so we did some damage on the back and it did land on the front so let's turn it over I'm scared to look oh yeah definitely a lot of damage mainly on the bottom of the phone and I have the feeling this is where it hit first you can see over here this was probably the first point of impact it's a pretty deep blow there's actually a little bit of glass coming out as I'm touching it right now and then there's another bump over here and just some fractures all along the bottom of the phone I hadn't seen that at the beginning but as I'm playing with the phone you can notice another fracture right here running across the screen up here kind of going nuts right now there's one more fracture and I'm going to turn it off because I think I can see it better when it's dark yep there you go well that's the rap the icon ten can probably handle your everyday wear and tear but dropping it without a case is out of the question we learned it only takes one bad drop to break the glass on this phone now is it more fragile than past iPhones that's tough to say because none of our tests are scientific but the higher price will make dropping this one hurt a lot more