Austin Sweatt's iPhone Duo verdict goes beyond the crease
His fast-starting Short questions the folding-phone backlash, while viewers weigh durability tests against everyday use and price.
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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,195,484 views a day, 6.3 times a normal first day on this channel (190,481).
iPhone Duo Is Flopping
A phone can survive the folding test and still leave Austin Sweatt unconvinced. In "iPhone Duo Is Flopping", he separates a visibly deepened screen crease from the other compromises he sees in Apple's folding device.
The Short reached roughly 640,000 views in nine hours, already well beyond his usual full-day audience for the format. Its comments have also surpassed the usual first-day total several times over.
Sweatt starts with Tim Pan's machine-assisted test: 10,000 folds, followed by a noticeably wider crease. But the qualification matters. As Sweatt puts it, "the crease in the middle did get noticeably bigger, but he said everything else functioned pretty normally."
That is not the part Sweatt finds especially troubling. He points out that Samsung's folding phones crease too, then turns to weight, missing cameras and apps that have not been optimized. He also cites Marques Brownlee's review, characterizing its verdict as a recommendation to skip the device. The Short is commentary on reviews and testing, rather than Sweatt's own hands-on test.
Viewers are drawing a similar distinction between a dramatic stress test and living with a phone. Some question how much repeated machine folding says about ordinary use; one folding-phone owner describes the crease becoming unimportant after the initial impression. Others bring the discussion back to a simpler obstacle: the price.
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What viewers say
It's just too expensive for me to actually consider it
@ShortAccount-k9iSee it on YouTubeAs someone with a folding phone the crease is literally not an issue outside of initial impressions. In actual use it disappears
@hanin4438See it on YouTubeits a foldable phone there is always gonna be a crease…..
@goggishdrute2874See it on YouTube
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I mean, obviously! What were they expecting? I’m waiting for the drop test videos.
@Sheikh-XXSee it on YouTubeThat’s why always wait for 2nd or 3rd version of a new creation product
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- Channel
- Austin Sweatt
- Subscribers
- 516,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 28,528,244
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,831,246 (on a normal day: 3,473,621)
- Video published
- October 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 641,187 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,195,484
The numbers
The iPhone Duo Short has already exceeded Austin Sweatt's usual first-day Shorts views. Separately, "Asking For $20 Everyday" has passed a million views.
💡 Test your knowledge
Whose repeated-folding test does Austin Sweatt discuss in the Short?
Sweatt opens with Tim Pan's test of folding an iPhone Duo 10,000 times.