iPhone 15 Pro-series titanium frame said to be extreme fingerprint magnet

Apple touts its new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max as its lightest and strongest handsets yet thanks to their new frame type, made of a Mars Rover-equivalent "premium alloy". However, it seems its new "thermo-mechanical" production process can't protect it from even superficial criticism.

According to "tech content creator" Andrew Clare, the new brushed-metal-effect edges attract fingerprints to a "shockingly bad" degree. This observation has been echoed by Weibo contributor Lurenlu, who seems to have captured video illustrating the issue from a recent in-person iPhone demo event.

The issue has been seen in the 15 Pro/Pro Max' blue and natural titanium SKUs thus far. Then again, few other tech contributors have publicly acknowledged the problem as yet, although it is apparent that some new top-end iPhones have visible finger-marks of varying severity in their own hands-on content. Then again, some isolated incidents involving some probably travel-weary influencers can hardly be considered a pattern at this stage.

Therefore, whether titanium iPhones really are more susceptible to such blemishes, and if they are more difficult to keep clean compared to their stainless steel counterparts in the long term, has yet to be seen. Stay tuned to see if any crop up in our forthcoming review!

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