why does my iphone keep falling off tables?

I just got an iphone 8 plus, and it's fallen off of my bedside table with a crash the past four nights! Last night I gave up and just left it on the floor. I even put it under my pillow and it fell of the edge. It falls off of my desk too, I'll walk out of the room and come back or hear a crash and it's fallen down again.

I started to think this morning either it's vibrating or it's the smooth glass on the back. And no surface is 100% level, add the weight of the iphone coupled with the perfectly smooth glass back and I guess it just makes it slide across anything flat.

I just googled 'iphone 8 falling off things' to see what other people thought about it and found this thread 🙂

It's a pretty rubbish design to be honest, much like the headphone jack troll. Not everyone spends £800 on a phone to cover it's design up with cheap glass, plastic and rubber. I like to use my phones as they were created 🙂 The apple logo on the back should be a different texture, or have a matt finish or silicone gripper you can stick to it. Then people who are used to putting their previous iphone in places and put their new one in the same place, don't have their brand new iphone crashing into the floor several times before they realise what's up.

I often use my iphone in the garage to stream and listen to music, if I'd have put this on the gloss work surface of my bench before realising, it could have gone crashing into a concrete floor and caused some serious damage. I'm going to find some little silicone dots or grippy things and just place one top, one bottom at the back, so I still have the original look and feel of the phone, but it won't try to suicide off of things all the time.

Phones do no leap up and fall off of tables. They fall off if you leave them to close to the edge, especially at an angle. They fall off if you (or your dog or your kid) bump into the table. They fall if you're not paying attention and you think you're setting it down on the table but really, you're off by six inches. They fall off if there is an earthquake, the building is falling down, or if you're really, really close to an elevated line (again, you would probably have left it next to the edge).

No iPhone, placed flat on a table, away from the edge moves itself to the edge and throws itself off on to the floor. No matter how slick the glass on the phone is, it can't up and start moving on its own.

My phone fell 5 times and it was not caused by any vibration. I took the screen protector off and it stopped happening. I have a case on and I am convinced it was the screen protector sliding the phone off the table.

Hi All,

It's the glass. - It's the most perfect amazing glass ever put on a phone, front and back.

The downside, zero friction.

Your phone is falling off surfaces because they are not perfectly level, and the glass is perfectly smooth.

Happens to me all the time, even with my iPad mini. Facedown it will fall off my bedside locked in 2-3 mins.

cspechow wrote:

or is a flaw?

How could it be a flaw? Unless the phone is possessed (I suppose one could make a case that that was a manufacturer's defect), how do you think it's jumping off of surfaces? It's being knocked or it's slipping due to being placed someplace unstable. Get a case. Anyone who finds you less attractive because your phone has a case on it isn't worth flirting with. Anyone who has amorous intentions toward your phone is simply disturbed.

Applying Occam's Razor, I think your desk isn't perfectly level. If it was, nothing on it would slide anywhere. Go get a marble. Put it on the desk and watch which way it rolls.

FWIW, I have never had any iPhone that I have owned in the past almost 11 years slide off anything I put it on.

The simple solution is to not put it on a smooth surface that isn't level. Physics rules. If something falls, there must have been a force to make it move. Unless you have a poltergeist. And if the surface is perfectly level the only force will be straight down.

That said, the iPhone 7 and 7+ have a camera lens that is not flush with the back, so the phone will not be perfectly level. It still requires a force to get it to move, but the only possible internal force is the vibration when you get an alert if you have that feature turned on.

Hi I had the same problem with my iPhone8 + my phone keeps sliding of the bedside cabinet untill I realised I think I found the problem I set my alarm clock then the phone started to slide across the bedside cabinet

MrPoole88 wrote:

This is happening to my iPhone 8 as I am typing this.

I have sat it on top of postit notes on a flat desk and if you look very closly you can see it moving to the edge. It is doing it very slowly so just a quick glance you dont notice it. But after a few minutes you here it hit the table. This happens all over the place, in work, at home.

I thought it was just my phone because it is new and super smooth, but this post has been open for 5 years.

It is really strange, I think a case is needed just incase.

Global warming.

It's funny to think of the phone jumping off of counter/tables everywhere as a joke. But my 1st Iphone 8+ did just that, it would fall off of everything. Again, it's funny. But, and this is why it's relevant and important to know why, when the back glass breaks there's no repairing the glass. The Apple store will, if you have AppleCare charge you $133 and offer up a new phone. If you dont have AppleCare, like myself, the repair it $429+ tax.

The back of the Iphone8 is too slick and it falls, at least my first one did, my second phone hasn't fallen off of anything!!

This is happening to my iPhone 8 as I am typing this.

I have sat it on top of postit notes on a flat desk and if you look very closly you can see it moving to the edge. It is doing it very slowly so just a quick glance you dont notice it. But after a few minutes you here it hit the table. This happens all over the place, in work, at home.

I thought it was just my phone because it is new and super smooth, but this post has been open for 5 years.

It is really strange, I think a case is needed just incase.

When I got a case it has not happed again. It must be the glass.

A. You have one table leg that is short

B. Your floor is not level

C. You take Ambien

My Iphone 8+ falls off everything!!! I I think it's due to the speakers causing a vibration, but it falls off of static thing that do not move, counter tops, even fell off the bathroom counter into the toilet. The glass has shattered on the back, it's impressive that it lasted the few days I have had it, but it's just too slick. Asides from getting a case( sorta take the sexy sleekness out of the phone) anything else to do or is a flaw?

Anybody?

I agree. Either the haptic system or the wireless charging, combined with the new glass back, causing it to have micro vibrations often enough that it moves across flat surfaces. Looking for Case now. Lol.