If you're well-versed in the world of viral videos, you may have seen one of the latest viral TikToks that seems to show a Samsung Galaxy S26 flashlight burning a hole through a black trash bag — while an iPhone 17 Pro appears to do nothing but shine its light.
The fact that the flashlight could be hot enough to melt plastic is pretty shocking, and some of you may be wondering whether this video is real or some kind of elaborate hoax. Well, we decided to test this out for ourselves with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. It turns out that, yes, the Samsung flashlight can melt a plastic trash bag, but not quite as severely as the video would suggest. But so can the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
