AppleTrack's beach test ends with a delayed iPhone Duo failure
Sam Kohl's foldable survives the waves at Bondi, but its inner display fails the following evening while the Samsung still works.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 146,246 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (12,184).
iPhone Duo Durability Test! This Is Bad...
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- 1:35The Duo flexes less than the Galaxy Z Fold 8 under bending pressure.
- 3:20After repeated manual folding, Kohl observes a more prominent crease.
- 4:20Removing the Duo's matte screen layer exposes a glossy surface underneath.
- 5:49Both phones are buried in sand and repeatedly opened and closed to test their hinges.
- 7:57Both devices still function immediately after being submerged in ocean waves.
- 9:47The following evening, the Duo's inner display fails; the subsequent Samsung check finds it still working.
"We were walking back to the car and I heard this pop when I opened it," Sam Kohl says. The beach tests were over. His iPhone Duo's inner screen then developed bright white lines and dead pixels.
That delayed failure is the turn in AppleTrack's "iPhone Duo Durability Test! This Is Bad...", which drew about 97,000 views in 11 hours, far ahead of the channel's usual start. It follows the drop test we covered here, but this time Kohl takes Apple's foldable and a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 through bending, repeated folding, beach sand and ocean water.
The early impressions point in a different direction from the ending. Under bending pressure, Kohl finds the Duo noticeably more rigid than the Samsung. Both phones keep working immediately after their encounter with the waves. By the following evening, though, the Duo's display has failed while the Fold remains functional, despite sand crunching in its hinge.
Kohl suspects grains of sand reached the display panel. That's his explanation, not an established cause of the failure after this sequence of tests.
There is another reveal before the sand arrives: he peels away the Duo's matte nanotexture screen layer, exposing a glossy display, then tries sticking the removed layer onto the Samsung. The video also contains a sponsored software segment.
Some viewers focus on an earlier moment than the obvious breakdown. They point to brief pixel discoloration during the bend test, questioning Kohl's initial assessment that the Duo was fine. The final screen failure is unmistakable; whether the first warning came much sooner is what those viewers are examining.
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What viewers say
wow... you flew all the way to Sydney for the Bondi stress test!
@illusionalquestionsSee it on YouTubeApple releases a new phone. Sam: “Let’s SMASH it!”
@sdrowletteSee it on YouTubeI get that ppl ask for this information but man is it hard to watch an expensive piece of tech being destroyed 😩😅 but for science and views it is what it is
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i saw some beautiful pigeons in the background video
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- Channel
- AppleTrack
- Subscribers
- 599,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 750,200
- Channel views, pace per day
- 158,833 (on a normal day: 118,556)
- Video published
- October 24, 2026
- Video views so far
- 97,464 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 146,246
The numbers
The durability test is drawing views much faster than AppleTrack's usual uploads. Its comments have also already exceeded the channel's typical full first day.
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What finish does Kohl reveal beneath the Duo's removable matte screen layer?
Kohl describes the exposed display as fully glossy after peeling away the matte layer.