I actually have one of these for tiny cheese: https://ibb.co/027G9tT

It makes me giggle everytime I use it. hihi

The “are you dumb?” comment while you’re calling two completely different components the same is just the chef’s kiss of Reddit user arrogance. Please use your good eyes and try again, buddy.

You may be able to do a chat/call with apple support in your country to have them add the apple care. When you do it online/over the phone they just run diagnostics to verify internally everything else is working. In the US, you have 1 year from the date of purchase to add apple care, also i think you have 60, maybe 90 days to do it yourself in setting > general > about. However they may ask is there physical damage to the exterior, so you may need to lie about that…

perfect idea

$29 with AC+

Use it to grate tiny cheeses

It’s of the screen protector ig , many screen protectors have one covering the ear piece

Yeah it’s the camera bump causing these issues! Not smashing the phone on the ground! /s

I have the same one. Looks legit - if it’s a fake, it at least looks 100% like the real one. Use a paper clip or something like that to check if it has the magnetic ring in the back.

Have you had a glass protector installed? I’ve gone through a few and they’d leave their mesh behind sometimes.

To add insult to injury even with AppleCare+ he might have to buy a whole new iPhone because the back housing isn’t replaceable.

That piece looks nothing like any part from an iPhone. I mean maybe you need glasses or something, but looking at photos for iPhone parts you can clearly see there’s no part of the grill or earpiece assembly that looks remotely like that.

I’m happy to be proven wrong next time you take an iPhone 13 apart, but from my own experience repairing the odd phone, and from tear down videos, and parts catalogues I can’t see why you’d think it’s from OPs phone.

Fuck otter box, I tried to file a claim on my iPod touch back in the day in the life proof case with the metal hinge. Here’s the kicker I dropped it on the carpet, the whole screen shattered and the point of failure was the latch. Same response as you. Mous makes really good cases highly recommended them.

Very strange, it looks like it would be part of a Samsung galaxy phone

Wrong, the rear part of the earpiece speaker for the 13 pro does not look anything close to that. There's videos on the internet that disprove you, there's common sense that disproves you, you can watch a jerryrig teardown of the phone and it will disprove you, but it seems you're so adamant on your stance, despite it being demonstrably wrong, that I sincerely doubt you'd believe apple's own engineers if they told you it's not true.

That metal piece did not come from OP's phone.

An old android because now flagship androids have under display speakers

Yup. Bought it a month ago.

When I bought it there wasn’t a plan in my country and I forgot so no.. no apple care and the iPhone 3 month old 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Does this have an original Apple screen?

The funny thing is that my old iPhone 8 had a AliExpress 4$ cover and although all the falling still looks brand new

I emailed them about this and they told me they don’t responsible for the iPhone damage so I told them to shove the case up and wish them to bankrupt

OP is showing the rear part of the earpiece cover which is why it looks like that. I repair iPhones as a side hustle I know what I’m talking about. Regardless a part is missing from the earpiece and damage can impact how it appears.

I think it’s just to cover the speaker

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It was a zagg if that is what you have. I can also confirm my 14 pro max does not have that. So you should be good.