In spite of its display issues, iFixit declares the iPhone Duo "the most repairable foldable" it's ever tinkered with.

With official reviews out in the world, you might assume there’s little left to say about the iPhone Duo that hasn’t already been said. But this is a long-awaited Apple product we’re talking about, and ongoing scrutiny of this show-stealer of a device is not just desirable, it’s pretty much mandatory.

This is because, while we’ve loved using the device so far and think Apple’s first attempt at a foldable is admirable, some early iPhone Duo owners have reported problems with the screen.

We’re currently conducting our own testing on the screen, folding the iPhone Duo 900 times per hour with a custom-made machine to see how long its hinge will last. At the time of writing, it had passed 20,000 folds without issue, but other people with a Duo haven’t been so lucky. Most commonly, people have reported issues with display cracks and lines of faulty pixels appearing along the hinge, according to MacRumors and Reddit.

As quickly as the faults have come to light, repairability experts at iFixit think they might already have discovered the culprit. Using teardown footage, patents and CT scans it collected while breaking down the iPhone Duo to ascertain its repairability score, iFixit built a 3D hinge model to identify where things could be going wrong.

What it found was that the breaks seemed to be occurring in the same place: just below the cable that connects the two screens, in a spot where a bunch of different connectors all meet.

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