When Apple replaced its leather cases with FineWoven fabric in late 2023, I bought one for my iPhone 15 Pro Max. And while it was nice looking out of the box, one thing we didn't know at the time was whether it'd endure. We know know that it doesn't – and it seems that Apple has decided to stop using the material completely.
A new report by leaker Kosutami on X says that Apple has stopped production of all FineWoven accessories because of "poor durability". And that tracks with my own experience: when I got my FineWoven case I said that the one thing we didn't know was whether it would be any more durable than the leather cases it was replacing. Their leather was extremely thin and in my stress tests of occasionally putting my phone in my pocket, the leather came off alarmingly quickly. It turned out that after a few months the FineWoven case did the same.
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